Offers

We recruit twelve PhD students who will each work in a consortium laboratory, with secondment opportunities across the consortium. We are looking for students with a Master of Science degree (and no previous PhD degree) motivated to join innovative projects in the field on Synthetic Cell Research. The applicants must demonstrate:

  • Advanced level and training in Science and Technology of relevance to the specific PhD position, including laboratory experience
  • Motivation to work at the interface of disciplines (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering)
  • Good interpersonal, communication and reporting skills, both oral and written and interest in the promotion of science
  • Interest in geographical mobility

 Offers

Salary and Eligibility

MSCA Doctoral Networks provide attractive salary terms and benefits, including a living allowance of around €3,400 (country correction coefficient applies), a mobility allowance of €600 and, a family allowance (€660 if applicable). Note these are gross values and employer costs or other deductions depend on the recruiting host.

Mobility conditions

MSCA networks require that applicants must not have studied/worked in the host country for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the position’s start date. The individual scientific projects are planned within one of the partner Host Institution and every Doctoral candidate will spend a part of their doctoral studies in another consortium laboratory (a maximum of 12 months of their 36 months PhDs).

Application process and contact

Applications will be handled by the individual institutions involved in SIGSYNCELL according to the local hiring procedures.

Host InstitutionContact of the PI for application & PhD Topic

CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Bordeaux France

Jean-Christophe Baret

Harvesting energy through light and the transport of chemicals

Nicolas Martin

Light-responsive coacervates to regulate biomolecule localization and reactivity

Laura Alvarez

Stimuli-responsive signalling of reconfigurable lipid vesicles

Host InstitutionContact of the PI for application & PhD Topic

AMOLF, Amsterdam The Netherlands

Kristina Ganzinger

Transmembrane protein mimics for communication between synthetic cells

Host InstitutionContact of the PI for application & PhD Topic

University of Muenster Germany

Séraphine Wegner

Spatiotemporal control over transport and signalling through photoswichable pore formation Synthetic cells as messengers in diverse communities of cells

Host InstitutionContact of the PI for application & PhD Topic

University of Ljubjiana Slovenia

Jure Derganc

Lipid vesicles in controlled non-equilibrium conditions

Host InstitutionContact of the PI for application & PhD Topic

University of Granada Spain

Laura Rodriguez-Arco

Remote actuation of synthetic cells by external force fields

Host InstitutionContact of the PI for application & PhD Topic

Wageningen University The Netherlands

Siddharth Deshpande

Intracellular communication through designer membraneless organelles

Host InstitutionContact of the PI for application & PhD Topic

Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg Germany

Kerstin Göpfrich

Transmembrane signalling for memory in synthetic cells

Host InstitutionContact of the PI for application & PhD Topic

University College London United Kingdom

Michael Booth

Remote control of transmembrane signal transduction in synthetic cells

Host InstitutionContact of the PI for application & PhD Topic

Imperial College London United Kingdom

Yuval Elani

Synthetic exosomes for long-distance cell-cell communication

Associated partners

  • Technische Universiteit Delft, NL
  • University of Bordeaux, F
  • Emulseo, F
  • Allozymes PTE, LTD, SG
  • Develop Diverse, DK
  • Badische Peptide und Proteins GmbH, DE