Conducting research for a changing society: This is what drives us at Forschungszentrum Jülich. As a member of the Helmholtz Association, we aim to tackle the grand societal challenges of our time and conduct research into the possibilities of a digitized society, a climate-friendly energy system, and a resource-efficient economy. Work together with around 6,800 employees in one of Europe’s biggest research centres and help us to shape change!
The Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine – Computational Biomedicine (INM-9) – develops and uses
computational methods going from multiscale molecular simulations to bioinformatics and drug design to face
the challenge of understanding the molecular basis of cellular (especially neuronal) signaling processes, in
healthy and disease conditions.
The project aims at developing efficient and highly scalable software for molecular simulations, in particular
for applications to biological systems. The PhD position will be located at the INM-9 and is performed in very
close cooperation with the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC). This offers a highly cross-disciplinary
environment for work and training. The work in our team requires constant validation by the experimental
studies and we have access to state-of-the-art computing platforms located at JSC. Your responsibility as a
part of our team will be to implement new methods and algorithms in our software for multiscale molecular
dynamics simulations called MiMiC (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00093,
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00424).
We are offering a
PhD Position – Algorithms for Efficient Multiscale Molecular Dynamics
Your Job:
Take part in the ongoing development of the MiMiC multiscale simulation code
Implement new parallel algorithms or parallelize existing ones
Port the code to GPUs
Test and validate the software
Benchmark your code on the supercomputers at the JSC
Your Profile:
Master degree in Physics, Computer Science or a related field
Basic knowledge of Unix operating system
Experience with C++ or Fortran programming language
Knowledge of at least one of the parallel computing techniques (OpenMP, MPI, CUDA) is desired
Experience with molecular simulation software is a plus
Knowledge of the Density Functional Theory or Molecular Mechanics is a plus
Good spoken and written English
Communication and teamwork skills
Our Offer:
We work on the very latest issues that impact our society and are offering you the chance to actively help in
shaping the change! We offer ideal conditions for you to complete your doctoral degree:
Working in a motivated and highly interdisciplinary environment
Opportunities of being part of the national and international scientific community
Comprehensive training courses and individual opportunities for personal and professional further development
Extensive company health management
Ideal conditions for balancing work and private life, as well as a family-friendly corporate policy
A structured doctoral degree programme for you and your supervisors with a comprehensive further training and networking package on our doctoral researchers’ platform JuDocs
Targeted services for international employees, e.g. through our International Advisory Service
The position is initially for a fixed term of 3 years. Pay will be in line with 70% of pay group 13 of the Collective Agreement for the Public Service (TVöD-Bund) and additionally 60% of a monthly salary as special payment (“Christmas bonus”). Further information on doctoral degrees at Forschungszentrum Jülich including our other locations is available at www.fz-juelich.de/gp/Careers_Docs.
Forschungszentrum Jülich promotes equal opportunities and diversity in its employment relations.
We also welcome applications from disabled persons.
We look forward to receiving your application until 04.07.2021 via our Online Recruitment System!
Questions about the vacancy?
Get in touch with us by using our contact form. Please note that for technical reasons wencannot accept applications via email.
www.fz-juelich.de
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