A postdoctoral research position is available in the £10 M Leverhulme Centre for Functional Materials Design funded by the Leverhulme Trust. You will carry out research in supramolecular materials chemistry, both using your own initiative and knowledge and by discussion with the Centre Director, Professor Cooper and with collaborators such as Professor Graeme Day (University of Southampton). An important aspect of this position will be close collaboration with researchers in related areas such as crystal structure prediction (Nature, 2017, 543, 657; Nature Chem., 2017, 9, 17) and robotics and automation. This is not a standard research project, but rather a 10-year research centre with the ambitious aim of fundamentally transforming our capability to discover functional materials. For this specific post, we seek a supramolecular chemist with the ambition to fuse experimental methods with computation and robotics to build a 'design engine' for finding new functional organic materials.

This post will suit an ambitious scientist motivated to produce step-change advances both in methodology and in materials properties. You should have a PhD in Chemistry with a commitment to developing collaborative research across the academic networks in the Centre, particularly at the nexus of experiment, robotics, and computation. The project would align well with candidates considering an independent academic career or a career in industry that leverages the unique combination of approaches offered by our Centre. We aim to recruit a team that will allow the Centre to succeed, rather than to fill a narrow list of technical requirements; as such, we seek applicants with a strong research vision, and this should be illustrated in your application. The post is available for 3 years.

Salary: Depending on qualifications and experience               Range: £33,518 - £38,883 pa (Grade 7)                                                

Tenure: 3 years       Hours of work: Full-Time                           Closing date:  14-May-2018

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