Offres d’Associate ou Assistant Professor a l’Institute of Material Structure Science du KEK

Platform for Drug Discovery, Informatics, and Structural Life Science (PDIS), which was originally launched by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), has been transferred to the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) since FY2015. The platform consists of three cores, Structure Analysis, Regulation, and Informatics. High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) has played a leading role in the platform, especially in the Structural Analysis core. PDIS has made technical developments in structural life science and supported many life science researchers in protein structure determination for drug discovery and basic life science in Japan. In response to moving the office of the Structural Analysis core to KEK in FY2015, we seek for a motivated researcher as an associate professor to lead the core office. The researcher is supposed to organize and host the steering committee meetings of the Structural Analysis core and other meetings such as the project selection committee meeting. The researcher will integrate many aspects of the project with incorporating ideas and proposing new activities for PDIS and play a critical role to collaborate with other cores and communicate with the PDIS office in the AMED. The successful candidate under supervision by director of the structural biology research center will also lead protein crystallography and hybrid method projects in the PDIS and is expected to make collaborations with other cores to open a new field of structural life science.

The Institute of Materials Structure Science (IMSS) promotes interdisciplinary and complimentary use of four types of quantum beams, synchrotron radiation (SR), neutron, muon and positron, in materials and life sciences research. The successful candidate will belong to Life Science Group of the Photon Factory (PF), and is expected to play pivotal roles in pursuing advanced structural life science mainly utilizing X-ray scattering/diffraction techniques. He/she will be expected to take the responsibilities of operation and maintenance of the related beamlines and experimental apparatuses as well as to promote active user programs of the PF. Moreover, He/she will also belong to Structural Biology Research Center in IMSS, and be expected to develop an advanced method for structural life science by using the X-ray diffraction method in combination with spectroscopic technique in PF.

The Institute of Materials Structure Science (IMSS), which is affiliated to KEK acting as an Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, promotes extensive and crosscut use of four types of quantum beams, synchrotron radiation (SR), neutron, muon, and positron, in materials and life sciences. The successful candidate will belong to the Muon Science Laboratory (MSL) and is expected to work on the development of Ultra Slow Muon source including the laser system for resonant muonium ionization. He/she will also play active role to promote user programs of MSL as well as to take responsibilities on the operation and maintenance of beamlines and experimental apparatus.