Postdoctoral Researcher in development of plasmonic nanopore single molecule sequencing

Organisation/Company University of Oulu Research Field Biological sciences » Biology Biological sciences » Other Chemistry » Biochemistry Computer science » Other Physics » Biophysics Technology » Biotechnology Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Final date to receive applications 8 Mar 2026 - 21:59 (UTC) Country Finland Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Horizon Europe - EIC Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 4000 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 17,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations.

Applications are invited for a full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher in development of plasmonic nanopore for single molecule sequencing by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)

The Raman Pro Seq  consortium includes Prof. Shuai Li in University of Oulu (Finland), Dr. Francesco De Angelis in Italian Institute of Technology (Italy), Dr. Cuifeng Ying in the Nottingham Trent University (UK), Dr. James Yates in Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal), Dr. Lu Cheng in University of Eastern Finland (Finland) and Prof. Maria Fyte in RWTH Aachen University (Germany) who are leading experts in intelligent automation, ultrafast SERS spectroscopy, nanopore fabrication and engineering, single molecule biochemistry and biophysics, computational biotechnology and AI bioinformatics.

Assistant professor Jianan Huang will be the supervisor for fabrication, development and Raman spectroscopic measurement of plasmonic nanopores on nanopipettes in this call and get support from all the partners.

The tasks of the postdoctoral researcher will be fabrication and characterization of plasmonic nanopore on glass nanopipettes as well as measurement of ion currents and Raman spectroscopy of the biomolecules (DNA, peptides, proteins) in the nanopores such as:

• Design and fabricate glass nanopipettes and characterise them by biomolecule translocation;
• Design, fabricate and characterize plasmonic nanopores on the nanopipettes with low electric noise;
• Measurement and preliminary analysis of ion current and Raman spectra of biomolecules in the device;
• The work duties may include teaching with no more than 10% of working time.

The nanopore fabrications can be firstly based on published protocols and then improved to fit the needs of the project. The biomolecule design, molecule-nanopore interfaces, automatic control of molecule translocation in the nanopore and deep data analysis will be handled by other researchers, discussed and solved together in the consortium.

• Exciting research project and excellent multidisciplinary research environment.
• The support of an experienced and enthusiastic team and broad scientific network where you can share your expertise and grow as an expert.
• Development and career options of the big, highly international organization.
• University of Oulu has put a great effort towards building a cutting-edge research infrastructure that includes state-of-the-art instrumentation for imaging, gene-modified mice, X-ray crystallography, and quantitative biochemistry. The teams have extensive collaborative national and international networks including Biocenter Finland and the ESFRI projects Instruct, Euro Bioimaging, and Infrafrontier.
• The support of an experienced and enthusiastic team where you can share your expertise and grow as an expert.
• Development and career options of the big organization.
• We have an HR Excellence in Research
  -quality label which is a recognition awarded by the European Commission for the development of researchers’ working conditions and careers.
• Finland is one of the most livable countries in the world, with a high quality of life, safety, an excellent education system, and competitive…