"Post Doctoral Fellow - Mathematics"

Department: Mathematics

Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education

Description: Possesses, understands, and applies a comprehensive knowledge in area of specialization. Develops understanding and skills to allow for completion of assignments that cross fields of specialization. Develops leadership and management skills. 1. Receives/Reviews progress and evaluates results of experiments or projects under control or supervisory responsibility. 2. Recommends changes in research, testing or experimental procedures. 3. May be responsible for a single highly technical and complex piece of research equipment. 4. May review and evaluate the effectiveness of personnel. 5. May plan for and assign personnel to projects under control. 6. Operates with latitude for unreviewed action. 7. May receive general supervision conferring with higher levels only in unusual situations. 8. Performs other job-related duties as required. The successful candidate will work with Dr. Josi? (UH) and Dr. Bennett (Rice University) on developing mathematical modeling techniques that describe the spatiotemporal dynamics of intercellular signaling in spatially extended bacterial systems. In previous work, these PIs have developed models of spatially extended synthetic bacterial systems and methods for monitoring intercellular signaling, gene expression, and cellular growth within them. The goal of the project is to use these techniques in a series of increasingly complex experiments to determine how mathematical models need to be altered to better reproduce and predict the spatiotemporal dynamics of spatially extended synthetic multicellular systems. Our ultimate goal is to more develop mathematical models that will enable us to better design large-scale, complex synthetic systems capable of coordinating their spatiotemporal gene expression patterns. MQ: Requires singular knowledge of a specialized advanced professional discipline or the highest level of general business knowledge, normally acquired through attainment of a directly job-related terminal degree or equivalent formal training in a recognized field of specialization that is directly related to the type of work being performed. No experience is required.