2 MSCA-Postdoctoral Fellowships topics are open in the Willaert Lab:
Topic 1: High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy to unravel the dynamics of biomolecular processes
Description: https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/research/ELO/NEW-MSCAIFAbstracts/msca-22-rwillaert01.pdf
Topic 2: Optical nanomotion detection for space biology research and the fight against pathogenic microorganisms
Description: https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/research/ELO/NEW-MSCAIFAbstracts/msca-22-rwillaert02.pdf
As a future MSCA fellow, you will prepare the Marie Sklodowska Curie – Individual Fellowship proposal with the support of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the supervisor Prof. Ronnie Willaert. In case of successful application, you will be hosted within the Structural Biology Brussels (SBB) research group of the VUB, the International Joint Research Group VUB-Ecole Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) BioNanotechnology & Nanomedicine (NANO), and the Alliance Research Group VUB-UGent NanoMicrobiology (NAMI); collaborations with PD Dr. MD Sandor Kasas (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) and prof. Bart Devreese (Lab Microbiology, Ghent University, Belgium). For the AFM topic, collaboration with the lab of Biotechnology of Prof. Andre Skirtach (Ghent University, Belgium) is possible since we recently setup a joint AFM platform: the Ghent University site hosts a Bio-AFM JPK NanoWizard 4 (including vibrational spectroscopy and the FluidFM setup) and at the VUB site a high-speed AFM (Bruker JPK NanoWizard Ultraspeed 2).
For more information on how to apply see:
https://www.vub.be/en/msca-if-research-area-biology#structural-biology-brussels
https://www.vub.be/en/research/european-liaison-office#apply-msca-if.
Contact prof. Ronnie Willaert for more information: Ronnie.Willaert@vub.be