Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley Lab, USA-Apply
Berkeley Lab (LBNL) addresses the world’s most urgent scientific challenges by advancing sustainable energy, protecting human health, creating new materials, and revealing the origin and fate of the universe. Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab’s scientific expertise has been recognized with 13 Nobel prizes. The University of California manages Berkeley Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
Position Summary:
Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry Division has an opening for a Biophysicist Postdoctoral Fellow. You will fabricate and characterize living functional hybrid materials that respond to environmental cues and transition from being porous and flexible to impermeable and tough. You will be part of a collaborative team consisting of researchers in the Molecular Foundry, Biophysical Sciences division, and UC Berkeley Engineering and funded by DARPA. The researcher will devote equal effort to the synthesis of the material using protein engineering and synthetic biology and characterization with various microscopy and mechanical testing tools. Responsibilities will include designing and executing experiments, data analysis and visualization, and guiding graduate and undergraduate researchers.