Junior Research Fellow (JRF) / Project Associate-I Recruitment 2026 at BITS Pilani

Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, Pilani Campus is inviting applications from motivated candidates for the position of Junior Research Fellow (JRF)/Project Associate-I under an ANRF-sponsored research project in the lab of Dr. Sandipan Dutta, Department of Physics. The project title is “Unfolding the Path to Aggregation: Multiscale Modeling of Protein Rigidity Loss, Misfolding Intermediates, and Oligomerization”. Research areas include Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Protein Folding & Aggregation, Multiscale Modeling, AI-driven Analysis of Protein Behavior, and Computational Biophysics & Machine Learning. Selected candidates may get an opportunity to register for the PhD program at BITS Pilani subject to institute norms. The project duration is 2 Years + possible upgrade to SRF in the third year after evaluation (total duration: 3 years).