90144: Biologist with a doctorate or similar (f/m/x) - Head of a research group for Genome Maintenance Mechanisms in the Department of Radiation Biology

Area of research:

Executive posts,Sonstiges

Job description:

Would you like to make a contribution to healthy ageing, cancer prevention and therapy, individual radiation risks and radiation protection, work in an international environment and in unique research facilities, research highly relevant issues while keeping an eye on the application?

Then the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine, with its focus on interdisciplinary research into maintaining human health and performance in space, in aviation and on Earth, is an attractive employer for you. The Institute's Radiation Biology Department investigates, among other things, the effects of cosmic radiation on the human body. We are looking for a person with proven expertise and a publication profile in the field of genome stability. The research profile of the applicant should include experience in mechanisms of DNA damage response (DNA repair, cell cycle control, cell death, senescence, etc.) and genome stability in human cells, and/or radiation biology.

Willingness to collaborate closely with the other research foci of the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine, e.g. in human studies, and the University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne, in particular the Cluster of Excellence CECAD on Aging and Age-Related Diseases and the DFG Research Group (FOR5504) on Physiological Causes and Consequences of Genome Instability, is expected.

Become part of this extraordinary institute and contribute your expertise to solving the "radiation problem". You will be faced with the following tasks:

• technical and organizational head of the Genome Maintenance Mechanisms working group in the
  Department of Radiation Biology
• acquisition and management of (third-party) funded research projects
• supervision of Bachelor's/Master's theses and medical/scientific doctorates

Please submit applications in English with the usual documents (CV, description of academic career including methodological skills, research concept including collaborations, list of third-party funding and publications, references and certificate) electronically via the applicant portal.

This research center is part of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. With more than 42,000 employees and an annual budget of over € 5 billion, the Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific organisation.