Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Breakthrough Science,
TIFR
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The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is an autonomous research institute funded
by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. TIFR is committed to pursuing
frontier fundamental research in science and engineering. Advances in and the application of
novel methodological developments can greatly aid scientific progress. Recent developments in
artificial intelligence and machine learning, in conjunction with the ability to acquire
increasingly large datasets, have allowed breakthrough scientific insights.
In keeping with its tradition of excellence and cutting-edge research, TIFR has established the
Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Breakthrough Science (LIBS), a consortium of scientists across
the TIFR campuses interested in innovating and integrating methods of AI/ML into their
research. In an attempt to encourage early career interdisciplinary cutting-edge scholarship,
LIBS announces a unique postdoctoral program, where scholars will focus on integration and
development of AI/ML approaches to answer key and fundamental questions of interest to TIFR
scientists in varied research domains across the spectrum of science. The appointment is for a
maximum of three years, subject to annual reviews, and depending on the scientific focus, may
be made at any of the TIFR campuses.
We invite applications for the LIBS postdoctoral fellows program. We encourage applications
from candidates with interest in developing and applying AI/ML approaches to varied areas in
biology, physics, astronomy/astrophysics and chemistry, including but not limited to the
following topics:
Astronomy and Astrophysics: seismology of the Sun and stars, time domain astronomy of
pulsars and fast radio bursts, super-resolution computations in cosmology, extracting
information from large numbers of c radio images of the sun, detection and mitigation of
anthropogenic interference signals in radio interferometry data, cosmology and large scale
structure function, application of machine learning based methods to astronomical problems
and cataloguing/classifying astronomical data
Biological sciences: computational biomolecular structure/dynamics, the study of active matter
through hydrodynamics, active matter as a way to understand living systems, human gene
function, integrative structural biology, function and dysfunction of neural synapses, neuronal
basis of synaptic function, classifying normal and abnormal brain activity, design of multifarious
self-assembly systems as a means to study interaction networks in living systems, cancer
evolution through the study of mutational patterns, circadian rhythms, cancer and digital
health, climate change, genotype phenotype correlations in tigers, identifying unknown
pathogens
Other topics: atmospheric turbulence modelling, computational chemistry and intelligent drug
design, fluid mechanics solvers
If you are interested, please send queries or applications to libspostdocs@tifr.res.in
Please
include a CV, contact information for 3 reference letter writers, and a statement of interest,
preferably in one of the areas highlighted above by 30th
January, 2023.
The stipend for LIBS
fellows will be attractive. TIFR centres provide excellent working environments with abundant
academic freedom and opportunity for growth. Come join our community and make
interdisciplinary breakthroughs happen!
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