Postdoc Opportunities in Synthetic Biology in Luxembourg

Simon Moore’s group at Imperial College London is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Associate position in biochemistry and microbiology. The project will investigate the biosynthesis of new-to-nature natural products , combining biological production with scaled-up manufacturing and purification. The researcher will contribute to developing and applying approaches that enable these compounds to be produced and recovered at larger scale. The position incl...

Royal Holloway, University of London is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join its Department of Biological Sciences and work with Professor Alessandra Devoto in collaboration with Syngenta Jealott’s Hill. The project, Plant Cell Libraries , focuses on plant synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. The researcher will develop and characterise engineered plant cell cultures and whole plants, contributing to plant engineering through iterative design–build–test–learn strategies. The...

The University of Southern Denmark is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join the Biotechnology Section of the Department of Green Technology in Odense. The researcher will work in Associate Professor Ren Wei’s newly established group as part of the Horizon Europe EIC Pathfinder project CATAMPLAS. CATAMPLAS focuses on next-generation catalytic protein scaffolds, including engineered functional amyloids, for the enzymatic degradation of synthetic polymers. The project brings together interna...

The Department of Green Technology at the University of Southern Denmark is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the Biotechnology Section to join a newly established group working with Associate Professor Ren Wei. The project sits within CATAMPLAS, a Horizon Europe EIC Pathfinder collaboration focused on developing next-generation catalytic protein scaffolds, including engineered functional amyloids, for the enzymatic degradation of synthetic polymers. The successful candidate will work at ...

The DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Biotechnology Branch is offering multiple postdoctoral opportunities in synthetic biology. The research is framed around advances in non-medical materials discovery and living-living hybrid systems for national security and defense applications. Successful fellows will work within the Army Research Laboratory environment, linked to the Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (SEDD), where research spans the electromagnetic spectrum and related areas such as s...

The National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering for its RRES Center and Synthetic Biology and Bioconversion group in Golden, Colorado. The project focuses on using metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to engineer a genetically amendable, non-model bacterium. The researcher will investigate aerobic conversion of single-carbon (C1) substrates into fuels and chemicals, contributing to NLR’s broader ...

This postdoctoral fellowship at Lund University focuses on AI-based protein design and synthetic biology for the creation of programmable living materials. The project is centered on the de novo design of protein biofilm systems , bringing together computational protein engineering and experimental biology to create new molecular functions and control how living materials form, organize, and perform. The research spans both theory and experiment. The fellow may work on AI-based protein design me...

The Ellison Institute of Technology’s Generative Biology Institute (GBI) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Tian Lab in Oxford, United Kingdom. GBI is led by Founding Director Jason Chin and focuses on making biology engineerable by developing the ability to write biological information and predict which DNA sequences will produce desired biological functions. Led by Principal Investigator Rongzhen Tian, the Tian Lab uses an orthogonal replication system to accelerate the e...

This 2-year postdoctoral position is based in the laboratory of Dr Gamze Gürsoy at the University of Cambridge , with day-to-day experimental work carried out in the Department of Genetics . The project sits at the interface of biochemistry , molecular biology , biomolecular engineering , and synthetic biology , and focuses on building programmable molecular systems for genome engineering and genetic privacy. The researcher will develop programmable nucleic-acid systems that detect defined human...