Plant Metabolomics Scientist: Small Molecules

Ellison Institute of Technology; Oxford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary dependent on experience + bonus

Enhanced holiday allowance

Pension 7.5%

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Private Medical Insurance

Employee discounts

Cycle to Work Scheme

Nursery Salary Sacrifice

Job summary

The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford invites applications for a Scientist to join the Cell Based Production programme. The successful candidate will contribute to innovative plant specialised metabolism research, spanning discovery through to scalable production of plant-based foods and medicines.

You will bring strong expertise in analytics of small molecules and natural products, including extraction, purification, and mass spectrometry with structural elucidation, and collaborate

Qualifications

• PhD in organic chemistry, natural product biochemistry, plant molecular biology or related discipline.
• Extraction, purification and de novo structural elucidation of natural products.
• Experience in small molecule synthesis and characterization.
• Demonstrated experience in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams, such as synthetic biology or molecular biology.

Responsibilities

• Support metabolic engineering of plant natural products in a highly collaborative environment.
• Design and conduct research focused on class-targeted metabolomics of plant specialised metabolism in complex mixtures from non-model sources.
• Develop customized libraries based on chromatographic and mass spectrometry-based features.
• Fundamental understanding of carbon flux analysis to support computationally assisted model building and prediction of regulatory and metabolic bottlenecks steps.
• Collaborate with EIT Oxford AI and Robotics teams to establish high-throughput, targeted analytical procedures.
• Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretations, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes.
• Deliver research progress through stage gated milestones.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to incorporate cutting edge research techniques into experiments.
• Present scientific work at seminars within EIT and at external meetings, including contributing to discussions on developments within the field, in compliance with company disclosure procedures.
• Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation of IP and cooperating in patent protection and in impact delivery.
• Conduct research ethically, in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance, and best scientific practice.

Skills

Small molecule analytics

Purification techniques

Mass spectrometry

NMR

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

PhD in organic chemistry

PhD in natural product biochemistry

PhD in plant molecular biology

Tools

GC-MS

LC-MS

NMR

Chromatography

Job description

The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford invites applications for a Scientist to join the Cell Based Production programme. The successful candidate will contribute to innovative plant specialised metabolism research, spanning discovery through to scalable production of plant-based foods and medicines.

You will bring strong expertise in analytics of small molecules and natural products, including extraction, purification, and mass spectrometry with structural elucidation, and collaborate