Dear all,
I am looking for a candidate who wants to start a post-doc research in
neutron/x-ray protein crystallography on improving and understanding
enzymes that digest polymers from microplastics in the ocean. These
enzymes might be a key to clean up the oceans from microplastics, but
also to make efficient use of the plastic deposited in thousands of
land-fill waste deposits. In the course of the project I would like to
develop a Raman/Microspectroscopy set-up at my instrument BIODIFF at FRM
II in Garching. This will help to check whether the polymer is present
as substrate in the enzyme or not.
The position is a two year prestigious European Union funded Marie
Skłodowska-Curie fellowship which requires writing a common grant
proposal (5-10 pages) until 18th of January 2023. The decision will be
made until end of April 2023 and the successful candidate may start
between May 2023 and September 2023. A finished PhD (or 4 years of
research work in a lab) and some knowledge on scattering techniques are
also required. The call is explicitly also open for non-EU membership
countries. For more information on other requirements visit the web-page
hosting the grant proposal:
The position also includes a 1 to 3 months internship at the company
Rigaku here in Germany where the microspectroscopy set-up can also be
tested at an x-ray home source instrument.
Since the deadline is approaching soon, I would appreciate that
interested students get in touch with me no later than January, 9th 2023
in order to write the grant proposal together.
I am looking forward to working with you in the future!
Best,
Tobias
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Dr. Tobias Schrader
Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS)
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Outstation at MLZ
Lichtenbergstraße 1
85747 GARCHING
Germany
phone +49 89 158860-743
fax +49 89 158860-799
e-mail t.schrader@fz-juelich.de
web www.jcns.info
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