BIOPHYSICIST

Job Definition:

Job Description:

• Research or study physical principles of living cells and organisms, their electrical and mechanical energy, and related phenomena.

Duties and Tasks:

• 1) Studies physical principles of living cells and organisms and their electrical and mechanical energy.
• 2) Investigates transmission of electrical impulses along nerves and muscles.
• 3) Studies absorption of light by chlorophyll in photosynthesis or by pigments of eye involved in vision.
• 4) Researches cancer treatment, using radiation and nuclear particles.
• 5) Analyzes functions of electronic and human brains, such as learning, thinking, and memory.
• 6) Investigates dynamics of seeing and hearing.
• 7) Studies spatial configuration of submicroscopic molecules, such as proteins, using x-ray and electron microscope.
• 8) Researches manner in which characteristics of plants and animals are carried through successive generations.

Activities:

• 1) Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
• 2) Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• 3) Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• 4) Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• 5) Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• 6) Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• 7) Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• 8) Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• 9) Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
• 10) Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• 11) Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
• 12) Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• 13) Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• 14) Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.

Abilities:

• 1) Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• 2) Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• 3) Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• 4) Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• 5) Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• 6) Memorization — The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
• 7) Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
• 8) Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• 9) Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

Knowledge:

• Biology — Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
• Physics — Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
• Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.