Skilled and committed employees are a crucial factor in the success of Linköping University. And we need more of them. Our core expertise comes from teachers and researchers, but a successful university requires experienced and motivated employees in many fields. Everyone is important. We need to recruit many new employees thanks to, among all, an expansion in our research activity. We need you here. We look forward to receiving your application!
The Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences is one of the university’s largest departments, with operations mainly in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Our aim is to engage in medical and biomedical education and research of high international standing. At undergraduate level the department is responsible for most of the medical program, the speech and language pathology program and the biomedical program. For more information about the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, please follow: https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/bkv
We are now looking to appoint a postdoc in the field of Ion Channel Biophysics.
Work assignments
You will work in a project aimed at unravelling binding sites and underlying molecular mechanisms of endogenous and pharmacological compounds interacting with voltage-gated potassium ion channels. To this end, the project uses interdisciplinary approaches such as electrophysiology, molecular biology and molecular dynamics simulations. You will be the key team member using molecular dynamics approaches and will interact closely with the other experimental team members in your research group and simulation collaborators in the Delemotte lab at SciLifeLab in Stockholm.
As postdoc, you will principally carry out research. A certain amount of teaching may be part of your duties, up to a maximum of 20% of working hours.
The workplace
You will be employed at the Division of Neurobiology (NEURO) in Sara Liin's research group. The research group has a general interest in voltage-gated potassium ion channels that play important roles in the heart, nervous system, and muscle tissue. We wish to understand the very fine molecular details of how disease-associated mutations impair ion channel function and how these ion channels are modulated by endogenous ligands/lipids. We also aim to develop new pharmacological avenues to target ion channels.We offer stimulating working conditions including a postdoctoral network. As this is a collaborative project with Lucie Delemotte's research group at SciLifeLab in Stockholm, regular travel to Stockholm will be required.
Qualifications
To be qualified to take employment as postdoc, you must have been awarded a doctoral degree or have a foreign degree that is deemed to be equivalent to a doctoral degree. This degree must have been awarded at the latest by the point at which LiU makes its decision to employ you.
It is considered advantageous if your doctoral degree is no older than three years at application deadline for this job. If there are special reasons for having an older doctoral degree – such as taking statutory leave – then these may be taken into consideration.
We are now looking for a highly motivated scientist with a PhD in physics, chemistry, biology, pharmacology or similar, for the position's relevant field. Extensive experience in molecular dynamics simulations, including enhanced sampling and/or coarse grained simulations and ability to work independently with these approaches is a requirement for the position. We also expect you to have good social and communication skills as well as the ability to work in a team as you will have a key position including interaction with different groups and team members.
Experience of working with ion channels or membrane proteins is considered a merit.
The position requires extensive written and spoken English skills.
As a person you should be independent and structured, you take initiative and responsibility for your work results. You are flexible and you can solve problems on your own with the help of creative thinking and careful analysis. Your work is of high quality and you can easily work with others by communicating with your surroundings through a responsive approach.
About this job
This post is a temporary contract of two years with the possibility of extension up to a total maximum of three years. The position as a postdoc is full-time.
Starting date
By agreement.
Salary
Salaries at the university are set individually. State your desired salary in the application.
More information about employee benefits is available here.
Trade union representatives
Information about trade union contacts can be found here.
Application procedure
Apply for this position by clicking on the button labelled “Apply” below. Your application must reach Linköping University no later than 28 March 2022.
Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
Linköping University will continue to develop as an attractive and creative place of work, characterized by equal terms and actively works for equality and diversity.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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Contact persons
Sara Liin
Associate Professor
+ 46 13 28 69 53
sara.liin@liu.se
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