🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     
Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Biophysicist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #99 of 702. Estimated risk: 2.7%

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

AI Exposure Risk

62%

“Biophysicist” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 62% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

47%

“Biophysicist” will probably not be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 47% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Biochemists and Biophysicists, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Study the chemical composition or physical principles of living cells and organisms, their electrical and mechanical energy, and related phenomena. May conduct research to further understanding of the complex chemical combinations and reactions involved in metabolism, reproduction, growth, and heredity. May determine the effects of foods, drugs, serums, hormones, and other substances on tissues and vital processes of living organisms.

Avg. Annual Salary $115,570
Avg. Hourly Wage $55.56
Available Jobs (US) 34,520
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Biochemists and Biophysicists #19-1021
Wage vs. National Median
ℹ️

Data is based on the reference occupation: “Biochemists and Biophysicists”

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

Related Occupations & Automation Risk

Economists

AI Risk 63%
Robot Risk 15%

Industrial Ecologists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 23%

Geographers

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 28%

Environmental Economists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 18%

Atmospheric and Space Scientists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 28%

Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 41%

Core Skills & Abilities

  • Research the chemical effects of substances, such as drugs, serums, hormones, or food, on tissues or vital processes.

  • Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

  • Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research.

  • Share research findings by writing scientific articles or by making presentations at scientific conferences.

  • Develop or execute tests to detect diseases, genetic disorders, or other abnormalities.

  • Develop or test new drugs or medications intended for commercial distribution.

  • Develop methods to process, store, or use foods, drugs, or chemical compounds.

  • Study the chemistry of living processes, such as cell development, breathing and digestion, or living energy changes, such as growth, aging, or death.

  • Examine the molecular or chemical aspects of immune system functioning.

  • Teach or advise undergraduate or graduate students or supervise their research.

  • Study the mutations in organisms that lead to cancer or other diseases.

  • Develop new methods to study the mechanisms of biological processes.

  • Research how characteristics of plants or animals are carried through successive generations.

  • Isolate, analyze, or synthesize vitamins, hormones, allergens, minerals, or enzymes and determine their effects on body functions.

  • Produce pharmaceutically or industrially useful proteins, using recombinant DNA technology.

  • Manage laboratory teams or monitor the quality of a team's work.

  • Investigate the nature, composition, or expression of genes or research how genetic engineering can impact these processes.

  • Study physical principles of living cells or organisms and their electrical or mechanical energy, applying methods and knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, or biology.

  • Design or build laboratory equipment needed for special research projects.

  • Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.

  • Study spatial configurations of submicroscopic molecules, such as proteins, using x-rays or electron microscopes.

  • Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution.

  • Research transformations of substances in cells, using atomic isotopes.

  • Design or perform experiments with equipment, such as lasers, accelerators, or mass spectrometers.

Technologies & Software

  • Semantic Scholar AI
  • Crystallography software
  • DeepSeek
  • Yet another scientific artificial reality application YASARA software
  • Shrodinger Jaguar
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • Multivariate statistical program MVSP software
  • Electronic lab notebook software
  • Voltage-gated ion channels software
  • Molecular Devices Corporation MetaFluor
  • Macroscopic diffusion software
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • Mistral AI (chat/models)
  • Analysis and building software
  • Expression DNA and protein sequence software
  • Video analysis software
  • Microsoft Office software
  • ChemInnovation Software Chem 4-D
  • Fujitsu BioMedCache
  • Semichem AMPAC
  • Presentation software
  • GE Healthcare ImageQuant TL
  • Graphics software
  • Elsevier MDL ISIS/Draw
  • NotebookLM (Google)
  • Accelrys QAUNTA
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Scite AI
  • Laboratory information management system LIMS
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • Sequence database software
  • ESRI What if?
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Wavefunction Spartan
  • JustBio SeqPainter
  • R
  • Elicit
  • Chang Bioscience ToolKit
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Tripos SYBYL
  • Internet browser software
  • Molecular Devices Corporation MetaMorph
  • Python
  • PREMIER Biosoft Array Designer
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Linux
  • Hodgkin-Huxley Model software
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Wavefunction Titan
  • 3D graphics software
  • Intelligent Imaging Innovations SlideBook
  • Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Microsoft Visio
  • SAS
  • Statistical software
  • IBM SPSS Statistics
  • Consensus
  • Molecular Networks GmbH Biochemical Pathways
  • Minitab
  • Email software
  • Structure prediction software
  • AutoQuant AutoDeblur
  • Perplexity AI
  • Carrier-mediated transport software
  • Fujitsu MOPAC
  • Chemistry at Harvard Molecular Mechanics CHARMm
  • ItemTracker
  • SAP software
  • Microsoft Word
  • Molecular simulation software
  • Docking and ligand binding software
  • Crystallography & NMR System (CNS)
  • Dassault Systemes Abaqus
  • Accelrys FELIX
  • Genetics computer group GSG software
  • Word processing software
  • Golden Helix HelixTree
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Molecular Simulations WebLab ViewerPro
  • Golden Helix ChemTree
  • Gaussian software
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • GEPASI
  • Accelrys Insight II
  • Perl
  • Assisted model building with energy refinement AMBER
  • Accelrys Cerius2
  • Gas chromatographs GC
  • Chemical fume hoods
  • Automatic x ray film developers
  • X ray crystallography equipment
  • Autoclaves
  • Protein sequencers
  • Incubators
  • Biological safety hoods
  • Water purification units
  • Funnels
  • Gamma ray irradiators
  • Laboratory convection ovens
  • Microplate readers
  • Cryotransmission electron microscopes
  • Pipettes
  • Biofreezers
  • Lasers
  • Electroencephalography EEG equipment
  • Growth chambers
  • Glassware condensers
  • Personal computers
  • Synchrotrons
  • Phosphorimagers
  • Circular dichroism spectroscopes
  • Brewster angle microscopes
  • Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectroscopes
  • Vibratome tissue sectioning systems
  • Mossbauer spectroscopes
  • Peptide synthesizers
  • Scanning laser microscopes
  • Desktop computers
  • Sapphire lasers
  • Plotters
  • Ultrasonic cleaners
  • Orbital shakers
  • Computerized axial tomography CAT scan equipment
  • Pasteur pipettes
  • Video enhanced differential interference contrast microscopes
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Cryostat tissue microtomes
  • Laser tweezers
  • Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers
  • Multichannel detectors
  • Glassware adaptors
  • Cytospin centrifuges
  • Light scattering devices
  • Heat blocks
  • Spectropolarimeters
  • Magnetic piconewton-force transducers
  • Ionometers
  • Erlenmeyer flasks
  • Microcalorimeters
  • Sample concentrators
  • Electron microscopes
  • Langmuir balances
  • Binocular light compound microscopes
  • Notebook computers
  • Electron paramagnetic resonance EPR spectrometers
  • Graduated cylinders
  • Cell sorters
  • Tabletop centrifuges
  • High-pressure liquid chromatographs
  • Chemistry analyzers
  • Signal generators
  • Rotating anode X ray generators
  • Ultramicrotomes
  • Scanning electron microscopes SEM
  • Refrigerated centrifuges
  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI microscopes
  • Multi-angle elastic-light scattering systems
  • Microinjectors
  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI equipment
  • Sonicators
  • Microcentrifuges
  • Top-loading electronic balances
  • Charge-coupled device CCD cameras
  • Video positioning equipment
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Test tubes
  • Inverted microscopes
  • Automated electrophoresis equipment
  • Laser Doppler zeta potential analyzers
  • Microdosimeters
  • Transmission electron microscopes TEM
  • Auto gamma counters
  • Specific gravity balances
  • Heat incubators
  • Balances
  • Ultraviolet UV transilluminators
  • Mainframe computers
  • Circulating water cooling systems
  • Near-field light microscopes
  • pH meters
  • Flexi-dry lyophilizers
  • Microscope slides
  • Optical tweezers
  • Laser induced temperature jump nanosecond relaxation spectrometer systems
  • Nanoscopes
  • Analytical ultracentrifuges
  • Liquid nuclear magnetic resonance NMR equipment
  • Solid state diode lasers
  • Phosphorimager video cameras
  • Large upright microscopes
  • Continuous flow centrifuges
  • Electron spin resonance spectroscopes
  • Basic vapor pressure osmometers
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Megafuge centrifuges
  • Shaking incubators
  • Vacuum freezers
  • Freeze dryers
  • Transillumination microscopes
  • Scanners
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • High-pressure high-temperature reactors
  • Carbon dioxide CO2 incubators
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Argon lasers
  • Isothermal titration calorimeters ITC
  • Thermal imagers
  • Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance NMR equipment
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Laser printers
  • Capillary electrophoresis equipment
  • Hot plates
  • Flow cytometers
  • Fermenters
  • Beakers
  • Positron emission tomography PET scanners
  • Spectrofluorimeters
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Darkroom equipment
  • Atomic force microscopes
  • Gel boxes
  • Cryogenic freezers
  • Filtering funnels
  • Fluorescence spectroscopes
  • Electrophoresis power supplies
  • Hemoglobin analyzers
  • Mettler balances
  • Water baths
  • Power amplifiers
  • X ray microscopes
  • Linear accelerators
  • Analytical balances
  • Automatic pipetters
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Confocal microscopes
  • Homogenizers
  • Krypton lasers
  • Cryocut microtomes
  • Viscometers
  • Amino acid analyzers
  • Microsusceptometers
  • Dual wavelength spectroscopes
  • Shaking waterbaths
  • Rheometers
  • Scintillation counters
  • Sartorius balances
  • Magnetic tweezers
  • Laser particle sizers
  • Raman difference spectrometers
  • Dichroic beamsplitters
  • Stopped-flow spectrophotometers
  • Heating mantles
  • Cryomicroscopes
  • Neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet Nd:YAG lasers
  • Laminar flow hoods
  • Microphysiometers
  • Liquid handling robots

Alternative Job Titles