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Automation Risk Analysis

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

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #99 of 702. Estimated risk: 2.7%

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AI Exposure Risk

62%

“Postdoctoral Scholar (Postdoc Scholar)” 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 Scholar (Postdoc Scholar)” 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

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

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

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

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

  • Develop or test new drugs or medications intended 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.

  • Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research.

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

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

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

  • Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution.

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

  • Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.

  • Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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