Post-Doctoral Research Associate, The Center for Molecular Biophysics: UTK
University of Tennessee · Knoxville
This position will assist Prof. Jeremy Smith as well as other research faculty and research scientists in performing research predicting protein function from multi-modal inputs, including protein structure, dynamics simulations and ligand binding. The positions may make use of high-performance computing and/or cloud computing platforms for their work. The positions will be part of a working team and will coordinate their efforts closely with faculty and research scientist mentors as well as outside collaborators. This is a grant-funded position and is contingent upon the continued funding of the grant.
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The Center for Molecular Biophysics, within the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Department of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology, is seeking a post-doctoral research associate for projects related to molecular modeling, AI and simulation of macromolecular structure, dynamics and function. This is a one-year position. This is a grant-funded position and is contingent upon the continued funding of the grant.
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