Opening for a position of Experienced Researcher (4-10 years) in production, crystallisation and X-ray crystallography of biological macromolecules

TOPIC: TOPCRYST, an academia-industry (IAPP) FP7 Marie Curie project, will use Dual Polarimetric Interferometry, pioneered by Farfield Scientific Ltd., to probe crystallisation at its earliest, most crucial stages. Transfer of knowledge between academia and industry will tackle the problem of detecting crystal nucleation phenomena at the very earliest stages of crystallisation and holds a number of promises that will be investigated in its course.

The post doctoral, experienced researcher (4-10 years after the bachelor’s degree) will be mainly occupied with production and/or crystallisation of macromolecules (by the method to be developed and by conventional methods), as well as with determination of their molecular structures according to the needs. Additional activity: the structure-based drug design project, specifically on complexes of antibiotics synthesized in-situ with A-site ribosomal RNAs (http://lssc.chem.demokritos.gr/).                                                                                                                                          

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT-DURATION-STARTING DATE: Full–time contract - 24 months – Salary, that of an “experienced researcher” (> 55000/annum gross) according to the Marie Curie projects guidelines – Any time up to March 1^st  2010.

PROFILE-ELIGIBILITY
Applicants should have a PhD degree, experience in production, crystallisation of proteins and X-ray crystallography and 4-10 years research experience at the time of hiring. They can be nationals of any country other than the country of the host organisation (Greece), preferably citizens of EU Member States or Associated Countries, as long as they have not resided or carried out their main activity in Greece for more than 12 months in the last 3 years. Candidates from countries outside the EU are also eligible. Greek citizens who have resided in third countries for at least 3 years in the 4 years prior to this hiring date are also eligible.

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants should forward electronically (a) their detailed CV (b) copies of published articles, (c) names, e-mails/phone numbers of two referees to:

Dr. Emmanuel Saridakis                                   or                   Dr Irene Mavridis

esaridak”at”chem.demokritos.gr                                            mavridi”at”chem.demokritos.gr

Tel. +30-210-6503658                                                          Tel. +30-210-6503793