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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Postdoctoral Researcher (Postdoc Researcher)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #99 of 702. Estimated risk: 2.7%

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AI Exposure Risk

62%

“Postdoctoral Researcher (Postdoc Researcher)” 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 Researcher (Postdoc Researcher)” 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution.

  • 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 new methods to study the mechanisms of biological processes.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.

  • 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.

  • Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

Technologies & Software

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

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