Bioinformatician (auxiliary personnel)

We are looking to hire four junior bioinformaticians as auxiliary personnel. The posts are funded by a EU POC-A1-A1.1.4-E- 2015 Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014-2020 award, for the development of a „Multi-omics prediction system for prioritization of gerontological interventions” (GERONTOMICS). The duration of the posts is up to 18 months (until August 2020). The selected candidates will work full-time in the project.

GERONTOMICS aims to use a systems biology approach to combine data from different “omics” levels (e.g.: genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic, etc) and from various models of ageing in order to create a large-scale data-driven analysis and prediction platform for experimental interventions in gerontology.

The project involves both computational aspects (data aggregation and processing, multidimensional data analysis, network-based methods, systems theory approaches, etc) as well as wet-lab experiments (some of the predicted interventions will be tested in vivo), with a highly multi-disciplinary team.

Candidates should be highly motivated, with relevant expertise in: Biology, Bioinformatics or Computer science (or similarly relevant fields), and excellent command of the English language. Strong competencies/knowledge in bioinformatics or ageing research are considered an advantage but are not mandatory.

The bioinformaticians will be involved in various bioinformatics analyses (large-scale data analysis, functional analysis, network biology), data mining and automation of data acqusition, with applications in the field of ageing research.  

As a bioinformatician the candidate’s responsibility will include depending on specific project needs any of the following:

• Designing (under the guidance of the rest of the team) data analysis experiments
• Carrying out specific bioinformatics analyses,
• Integrating and interpreting results,
• Collecting, curating data from public resources; automating data acuisition in the lab
• Carrying out ageing research specific analyses,
• Publishing and presenting results to the group, at scientific meetings and in scientific papers

While not the main focus of the post, being in an interdisciplinary team will also offer the successful candidates opportunities to train complementary skills to their existing ones (e.g. gerontology, theoretical and experimental biology, bioinformatics, computer science, statistics and systems biology).

Although the posts are for auxilliary support, the succesful candidates might be required to present their work to the rest of the group and occasionally even to attend and present at national and international meetings. Depending on the existing skill set and the candidate’s career goals, attendance to various training courses could also be available.