Post-Doc Vacancy at Durham: Soft Matter and Biological Physics
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate in
theoretical and computational soft matter and biological physics, to
work with Dr Suzanne Fielding in the Department of Physics at Durham
University. This follows the recent award of a grant “RHEO-ACTIVE:
Geometry, instability and activity in complex and biological fluids”
from the European Research Council.
The project will focus on “active” soft matter, maintained far from
equilibrium by internal energy sources: swarms of self-propelled
microbes; the matrix of the biological cell in which molecular motors
render the network capable of mechanical motion (e.g. in cell division
or crawling); and growing biological tissue. The main aim is to forge
a physical understanding of active dynamics and rheology taking place
in the complex environments that are relevant to biological systems.
The position is fixed-term for a period of up to 4 years in total (24
months in the first instance with the possibility of renewal for an
additional 24 months). The start date will be early in 2012, or as
soon as possible thereafter. Applications must be made online at
http://www.dur.ac.uk/jobs/, job reference number 1301, where further
details of the position may also be found.
The closing date for applications is 30th November 2011.
Further details about the department can be found at
http://www.dur.ac.uk/physics/; and about Dr. Fielding’s research group
at http://www.dur.ac.uk/suzanne.fielding/.
Informal enquiries are welcome and should please be directed to
suzanne.fielding@durham.ac.uk.