With cutting-edge research in the fields of ENERGY, HEALTH and MATTER, around 1,500 employees from more than 70 nations at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are committed to mastering the great challenges facing society today.
At the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF), innovative technologies for the circular economy are developed to provide and use mineral and metal-bearing raw materials more efficiently and to recycle them in an environmentally friendly way.
The Group Pep2Rec within the department of Biotechnology is looking for a Scientific Assistant (f/m/d) - Peptide Engineering: Molecular Modeling, Machine Learning and Quantum Chemical Approaches.

• Development of theoretical models of circular, palladium-binding peptides
• Literature research on metal-binding organic molecules as design templates
• Execution of classical molecular dynamics simulations
• Application and further development of AI-supported methods for structure prediction and optimization
• Quantum mechanical simulations (e.g. DFT, QM/MM) to characterize the palladium bond