Opis stanowiska
CeNT-10-2026
Director of the Centre of New Technologies of the University of Warsaw, with the Project Leader, announce the opening of the competition for the position of Student in the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biological Systems Modelling – Centre of New Technologies of the University of Warsaw.
Laboratory: Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biological Systems Modelling
Project title: Design of coiled-coil and alpha/beta non-trivial protein folds that self-assemble in silico and in vitro.
Project leader: Professor Joanna Sułkowska
For more information please visit our website: https://www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cent-10-2026_opus-28_j-sulkowska_doktorant_DOP.pdf
Nasze wymagania
- The competition is open for persons who meet the conditions specified in the regulations on the allocation of resources for the implementation of tasks financed by the National Science Centre for OPUS 28 grant.
- The MSc degree should be obtained before the date of employment in the project.
- Requirements:
- - Confirmed status of a PhD student (on the date of starting work in the project at the latest).
- - Master's degree in chemistry (crystallography), biophysics, structural biology, machine learning, or related fields
- - Knowledge and experience in chemistry (crystallography), particularly in designing or obtaining compounds
- - or knowledge and experience in structural biology, particularly in a protein expression,, chromatographic methods of their purification, kinetics study.
- - alternatively, knowledge and experience in machine learning applied to biomolecules, database analysis
- - knowledge of knot theory and graph theory is an advantage
- - good command of English
- - high motivation and willingness to engage in scientific work
Zakres obowiązków
- The role of the applicant will be to conduct
- ● designing new functional motifs coiled-coil in proteins and RNA
- ● or experimental investigation to develop a method/protocol to obtain a sample of new proteins and then determine the structure using either X-ray or cryo-EM methods.
- The results obtained will then be used as training data for the AI model so as to create state-of-the-art methods to design biomolecules.
- ● Submitting research reports
- ● Preparing manuscripts
- ● Presenting research at conferences
Oferujemy
- An opportunity to participate in a multidisciplinary project in one of the best scientific institutions in Poland.
- Stimulating, young and friendly work environment.
- Access to high quality structural biology laboratory, as well as, high-end computing equipment (CPU clusters).
- Opportunity to participate in various practical EMBO workshops.
Dokumenty wymagane do rekrutacji
- 1. Cover letter;
- 2. Current curriculum vitae;
- 3. Lectures completed during the course of study with marks;
- 4. Copy of document confirming the student status;
- 5. Signed information on the personal data processing
- Before entering the competition, candidates are obliged to familiarise themselves with Internal Reporting Procedure.
Załączniki
Dodatkowe informacje dla kandydata
Date of announcing the results: 10.04.2026
Method of notification about the results: e-mail, CeNT website