This Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position will combine a mixture of genetic part design, massively parallel reporter assays, nanopore sequencing, and the development of new tools and methods for engineering cyanobacteria for environmental bio-restoration applications. It will build on advances within our team to develop methods that can create the vast data sets needed for machine learning approaches for biological design, and the PDRA will work closely with data scientists at the University of Edinburgh to build predictive models that can accelerate the design of genetic circuits in cyanobacteria. The PDRA will be based in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol and will work as part of the Biocompute Lab. They will join a vibrant and growing biodesign community at the University of Bristol through affiliation with the Bristol BioDesign Institute and become an integral part of the newly established UK-wide CYBER project team. This role will require a PDRA who is interested in developing new methods for engineering non-model organisms using advanced quantitative and high-throughput assays.