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06/04/2021
European Research Council

Postdoc in Bioinformatics of Ice environments

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  • ORGANISATION/COMPANY
    Aarhus University
  • RESEARCH FIELD
    Biological sciences › Biodiversity
    Environmental science › Ecology
  • RESEARCHER PROFILE
    Recognised Researcher (R2)
    Established Researcher (R3)
  • APPLICATION DEADLINE
    15/05/2021 14:00 - Europe/Athens
  • LOCATION
    Denmark › Roskilde
  • TYPE OF CONTRACT
    Temporary
  • JOB STATUS
    Full-time
  • HOURS PER WEEK
    37
  • OFFER STARTING DATE
    01/09/2021
  • EU RESEARCH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
    H2020 / ERC
  • REFERENCE NUMBER
    856416

OFFER DESCRIPTION

The Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark invites applications for a three-year postdoc position in Bioinformatics to strengthen and expand the research capability in the Cryo-Microbiology group (https://envs.au.dk/en/research-areas/climate-changes-in-arctic/cryo-microbiology/). The postdoc will be part of a vibrant international collaboration between Aarhus University and the German Research Centre for Geosciences to investigate microbial interactions on the Greenland ice sheet. This is part of an ERC-Synergy award to the project Deep Purple (https://www.deeppurple-ercsyg.eu/home), providing essential field and laboratory measurements of critical physical and microbial processes associated with the darkening of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Start date is subject to negotiation.

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Requirements

Offer Requirements

  • REQUIRED EDUCATION LEVEL
    Biological sciences: PhD or equivalent
    Computer science: PhD or equivalent
    Environmental science: PhD or equivalent
  • REQUIRED LANGUAGES
    ENGLISH: Excellent

Skills/Qualifications

  • The position requires a solid background in environmental bioinformatics. Ideally, the candidate should have experience with two or more computational languages and extensive experience with analysing databases.
  • Experience with analyzing environmental samples from viruses to eukaryotic organisms and datasets from Illumina and Nanopore are desired skills.
  • Applicants should as a minimum hold scientific qualifications equivalent to the PhD graduate level showing evidence of a strong and ambitious research oriented profile and an emerging publication record within microbial ecology.
  • Applicants should have excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
  • The candidate is expected to be enthusiastic about working in an interdisciplinary academic environment and be very well organised.
  • Experience in Arctic research is highly desired, but not essential if the candidate is a highly motivated scientist who is comfortable working in teams.

Specific Requirements

Specifically, the selected candidate is expected to:

  • Develop and consolidate the research area of microbial interactions and genomes from glacial environments within the department. It is particularly beneficial if the candidate has documented experience with genomes, metagenomes, metagenome-assembled genomes and metatranscriptomes.
  • Contribute to ongoing experimental and sampling design of genomic information from icy environments.
  • Provide bioinformatics support to other projects within the department involving e.g., soil microbial interactions, plant-microbial interactions.
  • Contribute to maintenance of local bioinformatics servers in the ENVS sequencing center.
  • The main responsibility is research (including publication/academic dissemination duties).

Work location(s)
1 position(s) available at
Aarhus University
Denmark
Roskilde
4000
Frederiksborgvej 399

EURAXESS offer ID: 624547

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