CMAC Senior Modelling & Simulation Scientist (635117)

Salary range: £57,696 - £64,914

FTE: 1 (35 hours/week)

Term: Fixed Term (36 months)

Closing date: 20 October 2024

CMAC is a world-class centre of excellence for medicines manufacturing research, training and translation. Working in partnership with industry, CMAC’s goal is to transform the sustainable development and manufacture of medicines through advanced processing and digital technologies. Our portfolio is designed around four key pillars to deliver: high quality manufacturing research; the workforce of the future through skills development and training; effective translation of research into industry and, to continue to develop our world leading facilities and Lab of the Future infrastructure. Further details can be found in our 2021-2026 Strategy ().

CMAC are growing our National Facility team providing operational and technical support for our manufacturing research facilities and support and develop our collaborations with industry. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated team that works across a varied and complex infrastructure base to drive the effective utilisation, operation and maintenance of our infrastructure and drive high quality collaborative research.

In line with our strategic goal to lead the digital transformation of Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) processes we lead a portfolio of projects that use a range of modelling approaches. The scope of projects addresses challenges that span molecular systems in solution and the solid state; single and multi-phase systems (e.g. liquid-liquid, liquid-solid and solid-solid); a range of processing operations (e.g. synthesis, crystallisation, filtration, drying, blending, compaction) and material types (e.g. small molecule active ingredients, inorganic, polymers). We therefore seek expertise and interests in the application of a range of modelling tools across multiple length and time scales that encompass the appropriate physics and/or exploit suitable data driven approaches (machine learning and artificial intelligence) to support our modelling, simulation, and prediction goals.

Applications are invited from candidates seeking a challenging role who have considerable experience of the application of modelling tools to pharmaceutical products and processes. We welcome applications from individuals who can demonstrate extensive experience of individual methods but who possess practical awareness of other techniques as well as from those with broad experience of managing multiple modelling approaches and application development. You will work as part of a dynamic National Facility team reporting to the Director. Technical knowledge and experience relevant to CMAC would be an advantage.

This is an exciting and challenging position which will provide an ambitious and committed candidate with valuable experience within a National Facility providing a multi-disciplinary, multi-university and industry collaborative research environment. This is a fantastic opportunity to join CMAC and take a leading role in the digital transformation of medicines development and manufacture as we launch the next phase of our world-class research programme supported by over £80M in new funding for infrastructure, training and research.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Professor Alastair Florence, CMAC Director (alastair.florence@strath.ac.uk).

Formal interviews for this post will be held in early November 2024.