Interested candidates are invited to contact Guido Pintacuda (guido.pintacuda@ens-lyon.fr) for the research part, and Agilio Padua (agilio.padua@ens-lyon.fr) for the teaching part.
Please forward this message to all those who might be interested.
Guido Pintacuda
CNRS Research Director
Director of the Lyon High-Field NMR Center
UMR 5082 CNRS / Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
5 rue de la Doua
69100 Villeurbanne (Lyon), France
You will develop your research activities within the Centre de RMN à Très Hauts Champs de Lyon (http://www.crmn-lyon.fr), a joint unit of the ENS de Lyon (with CNRS and UCBL). The center houses a unique experimental platform, with 7 NMR spectrometers from 400 to 1000 MHz (a project to acquire a higher field spectrometer is underway), equipped for advanced methodological and instrumental developments in NMR, both in solution and in the solid phase. The center is also equipped with 2 gyrotrons and 3 polarizers for hyperpolarized NMR under magic angle rotation and dissolution. Today, five research groups are developing projects at the interface between chemistry-physics, structural biology, catalysis, materials science and health.
You will rely on the themes developed within the CRMN and on its state-of-the-art platform to propose the implementation of new methodological and instrumental approaches in nuclear magnetic resonance in liquid or solid phase at very high magnetic fields, at the interface between chemistry, biology and health. Your project, which will be connected to the research axes active at the center today, should also have a complementary component. For example, you could develop applications for the characterisation of the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules (in vitro or in cells), the discovery of new drugs, or the study of metabolic processes.
You will participate in the scientific life of the center, will be involved in the operation of the national and European high-field NMR infrastructure, and will contribute to the funding of the platform through applications to regional, national and international calls for projects.
You will integrate the Chemistry Department of the ENS de Lyon (http://chimie.ens-lyon.fr/) as a lecturer (maître de conferences) to provide teaching in physical chemistry, analytical chemistry or biochemistry. Students are admitted to the ENS de Lyon at the 3rd year of higher education through a very selective procedure. The enrolment is of ca. 20 students per year. They study for 4 years to complete their diploma, which includes a master’s degree. Some also complete a specialized master’s (agrégation) qualifying for teaching positions in high schools. After graduation many students pursue doctoral degrees.