The Paul Scherrer Institute is a centre for multi-disciplinary research
and one of the world’s leading user laboratories. With its 1300
employees it belongs as an autonomous institution to the Swiss ETH
domain and concentrates its activities on solid-state research and
materials sciences, elementary particle physics, energy and
environmental research as well as biology and medicine.
The Swiss Light Source (SLS) is one of the most advanced radiation
sources worldwide and operates two high performance undulator beam lines
for protein crystallography and a state-of-the-art bending magnet
beamline. The Macromolecular Crystallography group is involved in
several aspects of protein crystallography including the design and
construction of new beamline components as well as various structural
biology projects.
We are looking for a
Postdoctoral Fellow
Computational Crystallography
/Your tasks/
The PILATUS 6M pixel detector is the first large area, high dynamic
range counting pixel detector for protein crystallography. In order to
exploit its unique characteristics for the collection of optimal data,
we intend to develop novel crystallographic software to optimise the
entire process from strategy to scaling and merging, in close
collaboration with our international partners. In the first phase of
this process, you will be responsible for the development of a new
strategy programme, which takes the specific properties of the pixel
detector into account. A further goal is the development of a
profile-fitting algorithm to take advantage of the outstanding spatial
and angular resolution of this detector.
/Your profile/
You hold a Ph.D. degree in chemistry, biology or physics, and have
experience in either crystallographic software development or related
computational methods in structural biology. If you are a good team
player with fine communication skills and sense of responsibility, this
position will offer a great opportunity for you to develop your research
career in an exciting and highly multidisciplinary environment.
For further information please get in touch with:
Contact Line: Dr. Clemens Schulze-Briese, Tel +41 (0)56 310 45 33,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or Dr. Miroslav
Kobas, Tel +41 (0)56 310 32 69, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Please submit your application to: Paul Scherrer Institut, Human
Resources, Elke Baumann, ref. code 6112-02, 5232 Villigen PSI,
Switzerland, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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Dr. Clemens Schulze-Briese - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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