Postdoc in super-resolution MINFLUX imaging (EU project NanoVIB)

Job description

We seek a highly dedicated postdoc to join our lab at KTH (the Widengren lab) to be engaged within an ongoing high-profile EU research project (NanoVIB). You will work with super-resolution MINFLUX imaging, to expand this imaging technique into the near-IR, as well as with other fluorescence fluctuation techniques developed in our lab at KTH. As a lead application for this development, we will image surface proteins of pneumococci at molecular resolution and follow the metabolic regulation of cells by complementary fluorescence methods. This highly interdisciplinary project is performed in close collaboration with partners in Sweden (Karolinska Institutet), Germany (Abberior Instruments, Inst Nanophotonics, APE) and Switzerland (PI imaging). Together with researchers and PhD students in the KTH research group (10 persons), you will work on optimization of excitation and labeling schemes for MINFLUX, combine this with stimulated Raman and/or other fluorescence imaging techniques (prototype instruments on place in the lab), and then demonstrate the combined use for bacterial imaging. We expect this work to lead to several high-impact publications.     

What we offer

• Research work in a leading, very well-equipped lab in fluorescence-based ultrasensitive and super-resolution imaging/spectroscopy
• Work with cutting-edge fluorescence-based technology, taking part in its further development.
• Work in a highly interdisciplinary project and research lab, at the cross-roads of medicine, biology, chemistry and physics.
• Interactions with leading academic institutions and research-oriented companies within a high-profile EU project.
• A position at a leading technical university that generates knowledge and skills for a sustainable future
• Engaged and ambitious colleagues along with a creative, international and dynamic working environment
• Work in Stockholm, in close proximity to nature
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH

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Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• PhD in Biophysics, Bionanophotonics or similar, with extensive experience from fluorescence imaging/spectroscopy. 

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• Research expertise, good analytical skills, as well as programming skills in Python, Matlab or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience from optical alignment and lab work.
• Experience from cellular and biomolecular sample preparations, including labeling chemistry.
• Motivation and dedication to research work is a very strong merit.
• Teaching ability and experience is an advantage.
• As a person you act respectfully towards everyone and are well aware of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills, including communicative skills, team work competence and collaborative skills, as well as capability to work independently.

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To apply for the position

Log into KTH's recruitment system to apply for this position. You are responsible for ensuring that your application is complete according to the instructions in the ad.

The application must include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Brief account (maximum one page) of what makes you interested in this postdoc position.
• Brief account (maximum one page) of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals.
• Name and contact details to 2-3 reference persons (and letters of support from these persons, if at hand).

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, two years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

Others

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