For your bachelor's-, master's- or PhD-thesis you can expect three months to three years of exciting work at the intersection between physics and theoretical biology. Current open questions in the field of biomolecular dynamics, ranging from condensed matter physics to life sciences and from material design to pharmaceutical industry, often require state-of-the-art numerical techniques like biomolecular dynamics simulations and large-scale computer simulations. The research we offer involves molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, methods to reduce the dimensionality of the problem, machine learning, various analysis methods and more.

Things you can learn

Depending on the topic of your thesis, this might involve

• deep insights in the thematic complex
• simulations of molecular systems of biological/pharmaceutical interest
• modeling of very complex biomolecular systems
• development and implementation of analysis software
• 'big-data' MD simulations analysis using state-of-the-art analysis techniques such as various machine learning algorithms
• discovery of important properties in the data and their presentation

What you should bring along

• Interest in computational physics
• Basic knowledge in programming (we mostly use Python3)
• Enthusiasm for scientific work and discussion
• Even though you will tackle enthralling questions at the intersection of physics and biology, previous biological knowledge is NOT necessarily required :)