Herc-Higher Education Recruitment Consortium

Special Instructions to Applicants: Please attach a CV, description of your research experience and accomplishments and research you wish to accomplish in the future in the Supporting Documents section of the application. If not included in your CV, please include a list of publications. We also require three recent academic/ work related references. Please ask your references to send their correspondence to ctbp@rice.edu.

Summary:

The Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) is actively recruiting recent quantitative science (physics, mathematics, chemistry, bioengineering, etc.) Ph.D. graduates for postdoctoral positions beginning July 1, 2022 or sooner. We are looking to fill up to two positions with postdoctoral candidates well-versed in quantitative science, but also very interested in learning and tackling research problems in the realm of biology and medicine. CTBP is one of the Frontiers in Physics research centers sponsored by the National Science Foundation. It represents a collaboration among researchers of Rice, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Houston and Northeastern University. For more information about current research areas and news, please see https://ctbp.rice.edu.

Minimum requirements: Ph.D. in a quantitative field, such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, bioengineering, systems biology, etc.

Essential Functions:

- Identify problems or issues of importance in the functioning of living systems and identify possible mechanisms underlying the function
- Create physical science-based models to quantitatively investigate these models
- Glean information and data from biology literature, while being able to use analytical and computational skills to derive and formulate model results to be compared to that literature. Examples include, molecular biophysics, information processing and signaling networks, self-organization at the cellular and multi-cellular scales, as well as evolution and ecological dynamics
- Write about research and work in papers to be published in leading, peer-reviewed scientific journals and discussed at leading conferences
- Attend scientific conferences, make presentations, collaborate with other researchers at this and other institutions
- Mentor and help teach graduate and undergraduate students at the Center. Will be asked to mentor a summer undergraduate research fellow
- Write proposals to obtain research funding
- Provide academic services (i.e., teaching classes, managing tutorials ) to the department as required from time-to-time - Perform other duties as required

Skills:

- Proven ability to conduct original and collaborative research in quantitative scientific fields.

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