Postdoctoral Research Fellow position within medicinal chemistry

About the project / work tasks

• The research area will be within the design and synthesis of small organic compounds. You will be responsible for the design of novel target compounds for synthesis, development of synthesis routes, and synthesis of the target compounds. This will be based on compounds that have been identified through either high-throughput screening, fragment-based screening or molecular design by other project members. You will be tasked with developing new synthesis routes and using these to produce compound libraries for further evaluation in various assays. An important element in the synthesis strategies will be flexibility. We plan to use the departments laboratory for automated chemistry and the national infrastructure NorHTE, which is under establishment, to optimize synthetic steps (and routes) using machine learning in closed-loop (autonomous) optimizations and for parallel synthesis.
• You will work in a team together with other synthesis- and medicinal chemists. The tasks will be varied, and you will have the opportunity to contribute to developing new solutions in a research environment focused on innovation. The project lies at the interface between chemistry and biology, and your engagement in the project and contribution to interdisciplinary communication will be important for achieving the research goals. Testing of synthesis products using biochemical assays will be performed by other project collaborators as well as external partners.
• It is expected that you will contribute to the supervision of PhD- and MSc-students and actively participate in academic activities within the group and at the Department of Chemistry.

Qualifications and personal qualities :

Personal and relational qualities will be emphasized. Research experience, ambitions and potential will also count when evaluating the candidates.

Special requirements for the position

The University of Bergen is subjected to the regulation for export control system. The regulation will be applied in the processing of the applications.

About the position of postdoctoral research fellow

The postdoctoral position is a fixed term position with the primary objective of qualifying the appointee for work in top academic positions. If the appointee lacks teaching experience, or other relevant qualifications, the employment period may be increased to until 3 years and 3 months. Teaching and other duties will in such cases be added to the position. The position may be extended by up to one year (maximum 4 years in total) if the appointee is granted externally financed research stays abroad.

For this project we plan that the person employed will spend 6-9 months (during two visits) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung in Braunschweig, Germany. This stay is pending additional funding from the Research Council of Norway, and it is a requirement that the applicant is eligible to receive such funding and willing to visit this institute on such a research stay. Individuals may not be hired for more than one fixed-term period as a postdoctoral research fellow at the same institution. In accordance with the Research Council’s rules, neither can anyone be hired more than once as an NFR-financed postdoctoral research fellow.

For postdoctoral research fellow positions associated with externally financed projects, the completion of the project proposal for the qualifying work, as well as a progress plan, will be developed in cooperation with the supervisor and head of department.

It is a requirement that the project is completed in the course of the period of employment.

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About The University of Bergen (UiB)

The University of Bergen is a renowned educational and research institution, organised into seven faculties and approximately 54 institutes and academic centres. Campus is located in the centre of Bergen with university areas at Nygårdshøyden, Haukeland, Marineholmen, Møllendalsveien and Årstad.