We have vacancies for a PhD student and postdoctoral fellow in the Nanoscale Biophysics group. We are interested in the physical principles underlying protein self-assembly and protein-protein interactions. We aim for quantitative biophysical studies of these processes using a wide variety of experimental biophysics techniques, including single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy, multi-parameter fluorescence microscopy and atomic force microscopy. These approaches are complemented by relevant biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysical chemistry methods.
Job description
The postdoctoral fellow will help develop the state-of-the-art infrastructure necessary for these challenging single-molecule experiments and will explore, amongst others, the application of nanoplasmonic-enhanced approaches and super-resolution microscopy to the characterization of biological complexes and processes. This work will take place in close collaboration with several outstanding groups within the nanophotonics program at AMOLF.
Location
The Nanoscale Biophysics group has recently started at AMOLF and is currently building up a state-of-the-art microscopy and spectroscopy infrastructure, including a multimodal confocal time-resolved single-molecule microscope and a wide-field TIRF-based super-resolution microscope. We further have a significant set of characterization instrumentation and full access to the infrastructure of AMOLF, which includes a comprehensive biochemical laboratory and nanoscale fabrication and characterization facilities in the Amsterdam nanoCenter, housed at AMOLF.
The position is intended as full-time (40 hours/week,12 months/year) appointment in the service of Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) for the duration of two (postdoc) or four (PhD) years. AMOLF assists any new foreign PhD student/postdoc with housing and visa applications and compensates their transport costs and furnishing expenses.
Requirements
FOM prefers candidates who have qualifying experience (e.g. as PhD student or postdoctoral researcher) in a scientific research institute abroad.
Postdoctoral fellow: you are an outstanding experimental physicist or chemist with a strong background in advanced microscopy or single-molecule approaches, with an interest in biophysics. You have earned a doctoral degree in a relevant field.
Conditions of employment
You will be employed by the FOM Foundation for a fixed period of two years.
Your salary will be up to a maximum of 3,922 euro gross per month, depending on your level of experience.The salary is supplemented with a holiday allowance of 8 percent and an end-of-year bonus of 8.33 percent.
The conditions of employment of the FOM Foundation are laid down in the Collective Labour Agreement for Research Centres (Cao-Onderzoekinstellingen), more exclusive information is available at this website under Personeelsinformatie (in Dutch) or under Personnel (in English).
General information about working at FOM can be found in the English part of this website under Personnel. The ‘FOM job interview code’ applies to this position.
Contact
For more information about this vacancy you can contact Prof.dr. Vinod Subramaniam,group leader Nanoscale Biophysics and Director of AMOLF, +31 (0)20 754 71 00.
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Application
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- motivation on why you want to join the group (max. one page).
Applications without this motivation will not be taken into account. However, with this motivation your application will receive our full attention.
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