The Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine - Computational Biomedicine (INM-9) at Forschungszentrum Jülich develops and uses computational methods going from multi-scale molecular simulations to bioinformatics and drug design to face the challenge of understanding the molecular basis of cellular (especially neuronal) signaling processes, in healthy and disease conditions. Because of the complexity of the systems under study, simulation approaches require massive parallel computing resources such as those available at the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

We are offering a

PhD Position - Computational Biomedicine and Drug Design

Your Job:

• Design in silico compounds which may interfere with chronic-pain related pathways and neuroinflammation by using methodologies raging from molecular simulation to computer aided drug-design, cheminformatics and machine learning
  
• Implementation of structural Bioinformatics approaches
  
• Molecular simulation of selected targets
  
• Virtual screening and identification of potential binding entity
  
• Development and application of Chemoinformatic/Machine learning-based analyses
  
• Free-energy calculations

Your Profile:

• Excellent university degree (Master) in either biophysics, chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, or computer science
  
• Experience with UNIX-like operating systems
  
• Mathematical and programming skills (R, Python, Keras,Tensorflow)
  
• Ideal prior knowledge on pathway/Systems biology or MD simulations
  
• Excellent knowledge of written and oral English
  
• Interactive person with good communication skills
  
• Used to work in international teams

Our Offer:

We work on the very latest issues that impact our society and are offering you the chance to actively help in shaping the change! We offer ideal conditions for you to complete your doctoral degree:

• Outstanding scientific and technical infrastructure
  
• A highly motivated group as well as an international and interdisciplinary working
  
• Chance of participating in (international) conferences and project meetings
  
• Opportunities of being part of an international scientific community environment at one of Europe`s largest research establishments
  
• Comprehensive training courses and individual opportunities for personal and professional further development
  
• Continuous scientific mentoring by your scientific advisor
  
• A structured doctoral degree programme for you and your supervisors with a comprehensive further training and networking package on our doctoral researchers’ platform JuDocs https://www.fz-juelich.de/judocs
  
• Targeted services for international employees, e.g. through our International Advisory Service
  

The position is initially for a fixed term of 3 years. Pay in line with 70% of pay group 13 of the Collective Agreement for the Public Service (TVöD-Bund) and additionally 60 % of a monthly salary as special payment („Christmas bonus“). Further information on doctoral degrees at Forschungszentrum Jülich including our other locations is available at: www.fz-juelich.de/gp/Careers_Docs

Forschungszentrum Jülich promotes equal opportunities and diversity in its employment relations.
We also welcome applications from disabled persons.

We look forward to receiving your application until 27.06.2021 via our
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