Co-op: AI-Driven Computational Catalyst Design

AstraZeneca GmbH's Alexion Synthetic Product Development (SPD) team seeks a PhD student in synthetic organic chemistry with a passion for data‑driven catalyst design for a 6‑month co‑op in early 2027. You will help build a closed‑loop platform that combines computation and bench testing to accelerate chiral ligand development and optimization.

You will work with chemists to define training sets, perform DFT transition‑state calculations, build ML models, and run Bayesian optimization campaigns,