Analytical Chemist – 12 months position

River Stone is a synthetic biology company that uses state-of-the-art biology to improve production economics and performance of pharmaceutical ingredients. Biology is nature’s way of making advanced chemistry, in some cases offering more sophisticated chemistries than classic synthetic approaches. The massive advances in synthetic biology over the past decade mean that creating and producing chemistry using biological approaches is cheaper, faster, more diverse, and more scalable than ever before. River Stone Bio is a small start-up company with a fun and dynamic environment with almost everyone participating in the daily laboratory work.

Job description

We seek a highly motivated ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY scientist, engineer, or technician for our research laboratory in Copenhagen.

River Stone develops production processes for high value small molecule pharmaceutical ingredients by microbial fermentation. Your primary responsibilities will be to analyse for secondary metabolite production from microbial cultures, primarily using HPLC or LC-MS. You will contribute to the development and maintenance of River Stone’s analysis platform, method development as well as routine sample analysis. You will be part of an enthusiastic and strong analytical chemistry team.

The position will give intellectual challenge and rich possibilities to develop your skill sets as well as being part of commercially and scientifically exciting projects.

The ideal candidate possesses:

• M.Sc. or higher academic degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, biotechnology or biology or a relevant technical background, e.g. laboratory technician.
• Strong experience with analytical chemistry, including HPLC and LC-MS
• Knowledge of preparative HPLC or purification of metabolites with column chromatography will be advantageous.
• Experience with analytical method validation (sampling methods, sample representativity, sample preparation, standards use etc) will also be advantageous.
• Good communicative skills, an outgoing personality and team spirit
• Fluency in English (oral and in written).
• Flair and motivation for hands-on laboratory work.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with deadlines and sometimes limited time for data analysis.

To the extent possible, please include personal references and letters of recommendation in the application.

Contact person

Esben Halkjær Hansen, SVP R&D
esbenh@rstbio.com

Application deadline: April 28th 2024.

Applications will be evaluated on an ongoing basis.

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