# Research Fellow in Biophysics and Translational Mechanobiology**About us**The post will sit within Dr Maxim Molodtsov’s research team at UCL and the Francis Crick Institute, which develops advanced instrumentation and biological approaches to understand how mechanical forces regulate cellular organisation in health and disease. The group’s work bridges cell biology, biophysics, mechanobiology, microscopy, and translational technology development, with a particular focus on measuring and manipulating forces inside living cells, tissues and organoids. Our main achievements include understanding how mechanical forces are generated by single molecules that organize cell genomes and mitotic spindles. We are also actively collaborating with other groups uncovering how mechanical forces generated by cells integrate to form tissues.**About the role**The main purpose of the role is to support the development, validation and translation of the magneto-mechanical profiling system for biological applications in both living cells and multicellular systems, including tissues and organoids. The postholder will help establish robust experimental workflows that use electromagnetic tweezers to apply and measure mechanical forces on functionalised magnetic micro- and nanoparticles at intracellular, cellular and tissue scales. The role will contribute to demonstrating how the platform can address fundamental questions in cell and tissue mechanics while also generating reproducible, user-accessible assays suitable for a pre-commercial prototype.The postholder will be accountable for delivering high-quality experimental outputs. This will include developing and validating biological use cases, working with internal and external collaborators, producing well-documented protocols and data, and contributing to the evidence base required to position the technology for adoption by academic and industrial users. The role will strengthen the team’s capacity to translate mechanobiology instrumentation from a specialist research prototype into a broadly usable platform for intracellular force manipulation, organoid mechanics, disease modelling, drug discovery and related biomedical applications.*This role is available for 2 years in the first instance.* #J-18808-Ljbffr
Research Fellow in Biophysics and Translational Mechanobiology employer: Collabdemy
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