IQS, a founding member of Universitat Ramon Llull, is made up of two university faculties: IQS School of Engineering and IQS School of Management; IQS Executive Education which offers specialized training to professionals and companies; the IQS Tech Transfer division which carries out research, innovation and technology transfer for industry and companies; and by IQS Tech Factory which promotes entrepreneurship and supports the creation of new scientific-technological companies.

With more than 100 years of teaching experience, IQS is a benchmark university center, committed to responding to the continuous challenges that the social, economic, technological and industrial context poses.

Our vocation and commitment is the comprehensive training of people with attitudes, knowledge and skills that drive them towards their personal and professional development.

We promote scientific and technological knowledge, business transformation and the progress of society.

At IQS we are looking for professionals committed to these values.

The project and the team

At the ChemSynBio group, we use chemical and synthetic biology aiming to generate new biotherapeutics, especially to target brain tumors. Next generation biotherapeutics need to be even more selective and this can be achieved via conditional activation. Within this expanding field, we are developing reversible masking methods based on chemogenetic approaches. In order to enable biotherapeutics to reach their targets in sufficient amounts, we create and apply new systems to understand and cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Our research is funded by the European Research Council.

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher with a great team spirit and passionate about biomolecular engineering, who is willing to contribute to research and lab organization. The candidate should be eager to work on developing conditionally-active proteins and boosting their transport across the blood-brain barrier. The focus of the work will involve designing, producing and characterizing proteins and peptides, as well as testing their function and BBB transport capacity on cell models.

You’ll be part of a young, dynamic, and international team at IQS Barcelona. We invite you to visit our website www.chemsynbio.iqs.edu. Working and feeling as a team is essential. We aim to contribute to pushing the boundaries of knowledge but our main goal is to grow and enjoy research together!

• PhD degree with a background in chemistry.

• Doctoral and postdoctoral experience required: phage display, peptide chemistry, antibody modification, characterization of protein-protein interactions, BBB cell-based models.

• Experience in student supervision and lab organization.

• Team spirit, self motivation and proactivity.

• High fluency in English, written and oral.

Contract conditions

• Three years of guaranteed funding.

• Support to apply for additional funding.

• Training opportunities on scientific and horizontal skills. Attendance to international conferences.

• Space for creativity, with mentorship and team support. Student supervision.