NES Fircroft are currently working with a leader in Crop Protection Solutions who are looking for a Research Scientist (Post Doctoral) on an initial 12 Month Contract opportunity

Duties:

• Support design of new active ingredients by using computational techniques that could include data analysis and predictive modelling; molecular modelling, structure- and ligand-based design
• Work with chemists, computational chemists, biologists and other experts to devise strategies on how best to use data and provide design inputs to support chemical invention
• Work with computational chemistry colleagues across R&D to drive technology development and promote the use of state-of-the-art methods

Skills:

• Demonstrated expertise in computational chemistry or cheminformatics
• Understanding of organic chemistry and chemical structure
• Practical programming and data science skills to support computational chemistry tasks, e.g. Python, shell scripting, high-performance computing, pipelining tools, databases
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience in an industrial drug discovery environment would be a plus

Education: PhD degree in Computational Chemistry of Cheminformatics

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