Research Fellowship

**Research fellowship - AMBER cofund project**

This research fellow position is part of the EU cofund research project AMBER, Advanced Multiscale Biological imaging using European Research infrastructures, which aims to address scientific and sectoral gaps in biological imaging ranging from molecular, through cellular, to tissue, organ and organism levels of organisation, and is coordinated by the LINXS Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science.
AMBER is funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) COFUND scheme.
Around 10 postdocs/research fellows will be recruited in the third call 2024/2025, with each fellowship lasting 36 months.
AMBER has six core partners: Lund University/MAX IV, Sweden, the European Spallation Source (ESS), Sweden, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), France, the International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines (IMOL), Poland, and the Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, United Kingdom.
Your work may include clinical and biomedical projects. It may also include technique development work aimed at combining imaging techniques and data analysis to provide a more integrated picture of life processes in the context of health and disease. As a research fellow at the AMBER programme, you will acquire unprecedented medical, biological, and methodological capabilities, with a profound potential impact for Europe’s next generation of research and researchers. When you have completed the AMBER programme, you will be extraordinarily well equipped to further your career in academia, at infrastructures, in the health and MedTech sectors, and beyond.

**Qualification requirements**
Minimum requirements are:

- at least one original publication in a peer-reviewed journal,
- a background in the relevant methods,
- and finally, strict compliance with the MSCA mobility rule that the researcher must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the host organisation's country for more than twelve months in the three years immediately prior to the call deadline.

**Instructions on how to apply**:
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Applications shall be written in English and all documents shall be in pdf format.

**Additional texts to include in the PDF are**:
iv) Evidence of English proficiency (minimum CEFR B2-2 also checked at interview).
v) A draft Individual Career Development Plan (ICDP).
vi) Two reference letters.
viii) Ethical questionnaire (HE ethics checklist + research ethics commitment)

**Context**
This 3-year research fellowship is part of the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) COFUND research project AMBER, Advanced Multiscale Biological imaging using European Research infrastructures.
This project will address scientific and sectoral gaps in biological imaging ranging from molecular, through cellular, tissue, organ and organism levels of organisation, and is coordinated by the LINXS Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science.

**Description of the ILL’s Project**
At the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), the world’s most powerful steady state neutron source,
advanced beamlines for neutron imaging are available. Notably, NeXT is a state-of-the-art tomographic facility that offers the highest spatio-temporal resolution for neutron (and simultaneous X-ray) imaging. This unique capability makes it an exceptional setting for pioneering scientific research and interdisciplinary collaboration. At NeXT, you will be immersed in an environment that not only places you at the forefront of advanced imaging techniques but also supports the development of innovative and impactful work/research in present-day society.
We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to develop research in bio
- mechanical materials at the structural level on NeXT and help us push the boundaries of high
- resolution imaging for biomaterials and explore the applicability of neutron imaging for the study of their micro-structure. The work will be based at the Institut Laue Langevin and specifically at the Neutron and X-ray Tomograph NeXT-Grenoble. The project will have good access to state-of-the
- art medical, natural sciences and bio engineering facilities.

**Name and working place of the Principal investigator**
**Alessandro Tengattini**, Large-Scale Structures group, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France, is co-responsible for the neutron imaging instruments NeXT and MoTo. His research focuses on neutron and X-ray imaging for operando studies of porous media and coupled (bio-)chemo-hydro
- echanical processes at the micrometric scale.

**Minimum requirements**
- PhD in physics or structural biology/chemistry, with excellent knowledge of biochemistry and molecular biology, including experience in protein expression, purification and characterization by biophysical techniques (e.g. SEC-MALLS).
- Experience in small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering