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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Postdoctoral Research Associate (Postdoc Research Associate)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #99 of 702. Estimated risk: 2.7%

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AI Exposure Risk

62%

“Postdoctoral Research Associate (Postdoc Research Associate)” 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%

“Postdoctoral Research Associate (Postdoc Research Associate)” 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
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Biochemists and Biophysicists”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

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

  • Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research.

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

  • Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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