Postdoctoral Researcher

Updated: April 08, 2024 11:19 PM GMT

Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)

Donostia-San Sebastian

Applications are invited to work ab initio MD for open-shell systems as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the project “Computational mechanistic studies of the biological function of deprotonated diradicals”. This is a four-year contract* co-funded by the 2023 ERC Starting Grant RadicalProtON project.

Interested candidates must submit an updated CV and a statement of interest to jobs.research@dipc.org, indicating the reference number 2024/12. Reference letters are welcome but not indispensable. Submission deadline is April 21st. Expected start date is June 3rd 2024.
• The employer will be the DIPC the first year; the remaining three, the University of the Basque Country.

Responsibilities

The general goal of the ERC StG that funds this project is two-folded: i) to establish that a simple deprotonation can lead to the formation of a diradical in a broad range of organic molecules, including several chromophores and protein inhibitors; ii) to assess whether the radical character of these... More Detail