TuttleLab

01 TuttleLab

Opportunities.

02 How we recruit

Specific questions.
Clear scientific fit.

Recruitment to TuttleLab is based on an advertised position or a clear match between a proposed project and the group’s research. Please do not send generic speculative applications. If you contact the group outside an advertised vacancy, explain the scientific question you want to pursue, why it fits the lab, and the funding route you are considering.

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Funded positions

CoreShell Molecular Descriptor PDRA

Applications close 25 November 2026. Join the ARIA-funded CoreShell Fibre Foundry programme and turn molecular simulations into practical protein-design rules. This full-time research role will translate coarse-grained molecular-dynamics trajectories into quantitative descriptors of engineered protein assemblies.

Salary
£39,906–£46,049
Location
Glasgow
Hours
1.0 FTE, full time
Contract
Fixed term, 12 months

The postholder will build high-throughput Python workflows to measure assembly geometry and behaviour, including curvature, lumen dimensions, scaffold and tube stability, packing, aggregation, interfacial organisation and persistence. The work will connect protein sequence features to assembly behaviour, prepare reliable datasets for predictive and active-learning models, and compare simulation with microscopy, scattering and other experimental data.

Essential: a PhD in computational chemistry, molecular simulation, physics, biophysics, materials modelling, computational biology, mathematics or a related field; strong Python skills; experience developing quantitative descriptors from molecular or structural data; and experience with large trajectory datasets.

Desirable: coarse-grained molecular dynamics (especially Martini or a related force field), GROMACS, VMD, MDAnalysis, OVITO, high-performance computing, structural-order analysis, or preparing datasets for machine-learning models.

View advert and apply

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PhD students

Prospective PhD students should make contact only where there is a specific research idea aligned with the group’s work.

A concise enquiry should identify the scientific question, explain the fit with TuttleLab, and state the likely funding route. Generic messages without a defined scientific connection are unlikely to receive a response.

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Undergraduate & project students

Undergraduate and project-student opportunities depend on project availability, timing and appropriate supervision.

Enquiries should refer to a specific area of the group’s research and briefly explain the question or topic the student hopes to investigate.

Contact

For enquiries relating to a specific advertised position, project or collaboration: tell.tuttle@strath.ac.uk