Research Associate in Self-driving Laboratory Software and Workflow Engineering (723515)

The Research Associate in Self-driving Laboratory Software and Workflow Engineering will work closely with a multidisciplinary team of academics, PDRAs and PhDs focussed on accelerating development and validation of digital workflows and the automated orchestration of lab equipment, models and data systems.

FTE: 1.0
Term: Fixed (12 months)

CMAC is a world leading medicines manufacturing research centre based in the Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) at the University of Strathclyde. The Centre works closely with leading pharmaceutical companies including AZ, Chiesi, Lilly, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Takeda and UCB to transform the way that medicines are developed and made.

The Centre supports a portfolio of high impact programmes to deliver our shared vision that include the new EPSRC MediForge Industry 5.0 Manufacturing Hub, EPSRC CDT in Cyber-physical Systems for Medicines Development and Manufacturing (CEDAR) and the Made Smarter Innovation Digital Medicines Manufacturing Research Centre (DM2). We are delighted to invite applications for a new Research Associate (Grade 7) to join the research team delivering the next phase of DM2: the Digital Medicines Manufacturing Accelerator (DM2 Accelerator). The Accelerator builds on the successful development of industrial digital technology (IDT) platforms during DM2 Phase 1 to: (i) enhance research platform capabilities through the integration of additional IDTs to enable extended autonomous process development and optimisation workflows; (ii) deliver aligned training materials to support knowledge exchange and accelerate adoption and (iii) support translation of the technology and knowledge exchange through targeted engagement with small-medium enterprises (SMEs), large pharmaceutical manufacturers and international partners.

The collaborative programme will amplify our impact by further development of IDT technologies for Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) to enhance commercial readiness and enable rapid scaling of translation of DM2 technologies to existing and new partners. The programme benefits from significant investment in our facilities and equipment through the £11M UKRPIF Data Lab Award having access to an extensive suite of state-of-the-art digital, analytical and advanced process technologies to support the research. This post therefore provides an exciting opportunity to join the DM2 Accelerator team and take a leading role delivering the Centre’s integrated cyberphysical research infrastructure (CPRI) that builds new sustainable digital design approaches by connecting comprehensive data generated from a growing suite of material-sparing, self-driving DataFactory experimental platforms for material, product and process design into a novel medicines manufacturing research knowledge graph.

The Research Associate in Self-driving Laboratory Software and Workflow Engineering will work closely with a multidisciplinary team of academics, PDRAs and PhDs focussed on accelerating development and validation of digital workflows and the automated orchestration of lab equipment, models and data systems. The successful candidate will have a degree in a relevant subject (computer science, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, physics, or a related discipline) with appropriate experience in software engineering. Familiarity with basic pharmaceutical sciences principles will also be beneficial however training will be provided.

Initial interviews for this post will be held on a date to be confirmed.

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Daniel Markl, Associate Director at daniel.markl@strath.ac.uk.

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