Poland: PhD Student position in Chemistry

Deadline:  3rd September 2012
Nationality: Any


Further Details.


Fellowship of 3000 PLN/month (not subject to income tax plus 500 PLN to cover social and health insurance) is guaranteed up to 2 years.
Tasks:

1. Extension of the aspherical atom databank UBDB, optimization of atom type definition algorithm, software optimization.
2. Attempt to include the effect of electronic polarization due to the electric field of neighboring molecules (to simulate the crystal field effect) into the databank.
3. Databank applicability tests based on high-resolution X-ray diffraction data collected during the course of the project, and therefore based on the electron density distribution present in small biomolecules.
4. Large-scale test on available high-resolution macromolecular (protein and nucleic acid) X-ray data. The aspherical atom scattering factors derived from the UBDB databank will be used in the refinement to verify to what extent such a scattering model is better than the conventional one, based on spherical atomic scattering factors.

Requirements:

1. Master degree in chemistry or related fields.
2. Participation in PhD studies (at the time of starting the project).
3. Good background in computational chemistry. Knowledge on crystallography and diffraction will be appreciated.
4. Programming skills (not mandatory but beneficial).
5. Good level of spoken and written English.

The application should contain the following documents/information:

1. Motivation letter.
2. Master degree diploma.
3. Transcript of academic records.
4. CV (including: personal and contact details; short description of candidate's research experience; scholarships and other national or foreign traineeships; honors, prizes and awards; scientific publications; poster and oral presentations at scientific conferences).
5. Two recent reference letters sent directly by the referees via e-mail.

Candidate's offer should include the following statement:
"In accordance with the personal data protection act from 29th August 1997, I hereby agree to process and to store my personal data by the Institution for recruitment purposes".
Only applications containing ALL of the above documents/information will be considered.



Further Details.



Application deadline for position: 3rd September 2012.
The fellowship must start in October 2012.
Applications should be sent to dr Paulina Dominiak: pdominpomost@gmail.com
Top candidates will be invited for the interview (in English).
We may seek to contact the best candidates only.