PHD THESIS "DNA-BASED DATA STORAGE IN VIVO"

26 Jan 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

Department

Human Resources

Research Field

Biological sciences » Other

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Austria

Application Deadline

31 Mar 2024 - 13:50 (Europe/Vienna)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Part-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

As Austria's largest research and technology organisation for applied research, we are dedicated to make substantial contributions to solving the major challenges of our time, climate change and digitalisation. To achieve our goals, we rely on our specific research, development and technology competencies, which are the basis of our commitment to excellence in all areas. With our open culture of innovation and our motivated, international teams, we are working to position AIT as Austria's leading research institution at the highest international level and to make a positive contribution to the economy and society.
 
Our Center for Health & Bioresources  located in Vienna invites applications for a PhD Thesis. In the Center for Health & Bioresources, we aim to solve challenges associated with demographic change, resource scarcity and environmental pollution and to develop innovative solutions, that enable early disease detection and support healthy and active aging.
Our Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics  focuses its research on the development of novel diagnostic technologies for a wide range of applications (e.g., infectious diseases, cancer diagnostics, health monitoring).
 
The PhD project is part of the European research project “MI-DNA DISC“, involving six institutions from Europe and is coordinated by Dr. Ivan Barišić. The goal of the Horizon Europe is to develop a novel DNA-based data storage approach. The PhD candidate will investigate DNA-based technologies regarding their data storage capacity and develop genetic tools to store data in the genomes of bacteria. The candidate will be enrolled at the Technical University Vienna.

PHD THESIS "DNA-BASED DATA STORAGE IN VIVO"

CENTER FOR HEALTH & BIORESOURCES - IN COOPERATION WITH TU WIEN

• You dive deeper into the topic of synthetic biology and DNA-based data storage.
• You carry out a literature search and keep track of the actual literature about novel genetic engineering tools in bacteria.
• You perform sequencing experiments to analyse bacterial DNA exchange mechanisms.
• You use and become familiar with analytical instruments and molecular tools.
• You interact with other international scientists and project consortia working on DNA-based data storage and synthetic biology.
• You will be introduced to the European community working on DNA-based computing.

• You work interdisciplinary with molecular biologists, computer scientists, physicists, and dissemination and exploitation experts.
• You will publish your research results at conferences and in international journals.
• You will learn how to evaluate the results and prepare them for further studies.
• You will accumulate experience in a research field, that has an enormous potential to transform data storage and computing.
• You will gain experience in a group of international scientists and build up your professional network.

Your qualifications as an Ingenious Partner:

• Master's studies in the field of molecular biology or similar
• Good knowledge in Microbiology and Genetics, ideally regarding ligation-based DNA technologies, bacteriophages and/or CRISPR-Cas
• Enthusiastic about the conception of scientific studies, writing of proposals and publishing papers
• High level of commitment and team spirit
• Very good knowledge of English in word and writing
• Interested in reading and writing scientific publications and enjoy application-oriented questions from industry
• High level of commitment and team spirit

 Details:

• Duration of the PhD project: 3 years
• Start date: ideally as soon as possible – However, there is some flexibility concerning the start-date

What to expect:
EUR 34.507 gross per year, for 30 h / week. In addition to numerous events, seminars and networking opportunities, there will be additional company benefits. As a research institution, we are familiar with the supervision and execution of PhD theses, and we are looking forward to supporting you accordingly!
 

At AIT diversity and inclusion are of great importance. This is why we strive to inspire women to join our teams in the field of technology. We welcome applications from women, who will be given preference in case of equal qualifications after taking into account all relevant facts and circumstances of all applications.
 
Join our AIT PhD programme  with around 150 international students, carried out in cooperation with renowned universities – Let’s make ideas work – With you?
 
Please submit your documents including your CV, cover letter and your certificates (Transcript of records) online:

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Requirements

Research Field

Biological sciences » Other

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Additional Information
Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology

Country

Austria

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://jobs.ait.ac.at/Job/226526

Contact

City

Vienna

Website

http://www.ait.ac.at

Street

Giefinggasse 4

Postal Code

1210

STATUS: EXPIRED