External Master's Thesis - Computationally-driven purification processes for small molecules (in cooperation with MedUni Graz / Twin4Pharma)

This master’s thesis is offered in cooperation with Prof. Pedro Murcia, Medical University of Graz, as part of the Twin4Pharma project.

Master's Thesis in Computational Chemistry

Computationally-driven purification processes for small molecules

We are looking for a motivated and talented MSc Student to join our laboratory of Computer-Aided

Molecular Design at the Medical University of Graz (Austria). The successful MSc candidate will work in

the context of the COMET project Digital and Green (Twin) Transition of Pharmaceutical Product and Process

Development Twin4Pharma (https://www.rcpe.at/en/twin4pharma) lead by the Research Center

Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE). The main goal of Twin4Pharma is to deliver novel computational

methods to speed up sustainable process development, and to reduce failures and the experimental burden.

WHAT IS THIS POSITION ABOUT?

This MSc thesis is planned for 6-months and is entirely computational (do not worry: you may not enter the

wet-lab). Your tasks will focus on the computation and prediction of molecular properties of relevant

pharmaceutical molecules (i.e. solubility, stability) as well as in their interactions with other molecules of

interest, to help in the pharmaceutical production and purification processes. A variety of methods will be use,

from classical to quantum mechanics, including artificial intelligence algorithms.

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY TO THIS POSITION?

• Interdisciplinary team, with players from both Academia and Industry

• Hands on a plethora of computational methods for computing molecular properties

• We offer economical support upon completion of the MSc Thesis

• We are nice people and Graz is beautiful

HOW TO APPLY FOR?

If you are interested on the position, you can send (1) your CV and (2) a letter of motivation as PDF files to

pedro.murcia@medunigraz.at.

Contact:

Laboratory of Computer-Aided Molecular Design

Division of Medicinal Chemistry

Otto-Loewi Research Center

Medical University of Graz

Neue Stiftingtalstraße 6/III

A-8010 Graz · Austria

Phone: +43 316385 72134

CAMDgraz.com · @psanmur