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Job advert: One Post-Doctoral Position open at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia on atomistic modelling of battery materials

The High-Performance Computing for Material Design group at the Department of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics (FIM) (http://www.fim.unimore.it) has an opening for one Research position in the area of atomistic modelling of interfacial phenomena in Li ion batteries. The initial appointment is for one year but possibly extended to a second year upon mutual agreement and satisfactory research performance. Salary will be commensurate with experience, training and qualifications: the amount of the monthly net salary will be around 2000.00 euro.

The project ennoscriptd Study of eco-friendly polymeric binders for electrodes of Lithium Ion batteries by atomistic simulations involves the use of material modelling (ab-initio simulations, and classical and ab-initio molecular dynamics) to simulate the properties of polymeric eco-friendly self-healing binders and their interaction with the active material surfaces to be compared with the results of the experimental groups actively collaborating in the projects.

The positions are funded by MUR (Italian Ministry of University and Research) under the PRIN 2022 Project “BIONIC - Binders with high iONIc Conductivity for fully sustainable Li-ion cells”.

Successful candidates will hold a PhD degree in a relevant discipline (Computational Physics, Chemistry, Physics, Material Science or similar) and will have demonstrated expertise in two or more of the following areas: Density Functional Theory, Ab initio Molecular Dynamics, Classical Molecular Dynamics, Advanced Sampling methods, and optimization methods. Programming and analytical skills, and knowledge of high performance computing are desirable.

The deadline for applying is 17th june2024, 1 p.m. (CET)

Interested candidates should send their (a) CV containing a list of publications, (b) a cover letter describing their background, key research accomplishments, and capability in modelling material systems, and (c) names, email, and telephone numbers of two references by email to Prof. Rita Magri (rita.magri@unimore.it).
🚀 UCSF ChimeraX Version 1.8 Released! 🚀

📚 ChimeraX includes user documentation and is free for noncommercial use.
🔗 Download for Windows, Linux, and MacOS here: [Download ChimeraX](https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html)

🆕 Updates since version 1.7 (Dec 2023):
- 🐛 Show worm depictions of attribute values (B-factor, conservation, etc.) using Render by Attribute tool or cartoon byattribute command.
- 🔵 Show attribute values with atomic radii using Render by Attribute or size byattribute.
- 🎨 Select by Attribute graphical interface.
- 🔗 Join Models generalized to any covalent bond (not just peptide).
- 🔄 Show multiple alternate locations simultaneously with altlocs show.
- 🌐 pbond command to create arbitrary pseudobonds.
- 📏 measure contactarea to report the area of one surface within a cutoff distance of another.
- 🛠 Segmentations tool for interactive manual segmentation in 2D slice views, 3D (desktop), or 3D (VR) can be applied to any volume data, not just medical images; several fixes and ergonomic improvements including icons to assign/deassign mouse and VR hand-controller modes with a single click.
- ⚙️ Set up and analyze batch AlphaFold predictions to search for protein-protein interactions (commands for advanced users who can run ColabFold directly on Linux).

🔍 Support for:
- 🧬 Reading predicted aligned error (PAE) data from AlphaFold 3.
- 📊 Reading docking results from MOE.
- 🔄 Fetching atomic structures and maps from PDB-REDO.
- 📈 Fetching/display of PDB NMR-STAR restraints.

For more details, check out the ChimeraX change log: [Change Log](https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/wiki/ChangeLog)
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