Researcher Fellow in Biomolecular Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy (109634-0924)

Location: University of Warwick Campus, Coventry

Duration: Ending 30 April 2027

About the Role

For informal enquiries, please contact Jozef Lewandowski (Professor) at j.r.lewandowski@warwick.ac.uk.

The appointee will be one of three PDRAs appointed on an EPSRC International Centre-to-Centre grant entitled: “Pushing the Limits of High-Field Solid-State NMR Technology: Enhancing Applications to Advanced Materials, the Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals” that has been awarded to PIs at a consortium of Universities (Warwick, St Andrews, Southampton, Liverpool, Lancaster and Birmingham). This 30-month position is focused on applications of state-of-the-art high field solid-state NMR to biosolids, including antibiotic action, RNA and RNA-protein complexes, protein folding and characterisation, and plants. The lead supervisor is Professor Józef Lewandowski at Warwick, in collaboration with Professors Teresa Carlomagno at Birmingham and Phil Williamson at Southampton, as well as Professor Steven Brown and Dr Ying Chow at Warwick.

The research program is centred around the exchange of expertise between UK High-Field Solid-State NMR National Research Facility (NRF) that is hosted at the University of Warwick and several ≥ 1GHz NMR centres around the world.  The NRF provides access to a 850 MHz wide bore and a 1 GHz narrow bore Bruker Neo spectrometer, with a 1.2 GHz system to be installed in 2025. The facility has a large variety of MAS probes including a 0.5 mm probe spinning up to 160 kHz, a DOR probe, a 7 mm LASER probe, and 0.7 mm, 1 mm, 1.3 mm, 1.6 mm, 1.9 mm, 2.5 mm, 3.2 mm, 4 mm and 7 mm probes, with a large variety of triple resonance combination, and extended variable temperature capabilities. 

The UK High-Field Solid-State NMR Facility (warwick.ac.uk)

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.  

About You  

You should hold, or be about to attain, a PhD in solid-state NMR as applied to biosolids. Be enthusiastic about the capabilities of solid-state NMR to answer questions relating to structure and dynamics at the atomic level in a wide range of a biological applications.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade structure. Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure. 

CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 01 October 2024 at 11.55 pm

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.

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