Postdoc and PhD positions in Cheminformatics at Jena University, Germany
One postdoc position and three phd positions are available in my newly founded research group at Jena University, Germany.
I am currently moving from my previous position as Head of Cheminformatics and Metabolism at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) to the Institute for Analytical Chemistry as Professor for Analytical Chemistry, Cheminformatics and Chemometrics at Jena University. The successful candidates will help forming the nucleus of the new research group and work in an exciting network of local and international collaborations, such as the PhenoMeNal project funded by the European Commission in their Horizon2020 framework program.
Open Positions:
- Postdoc: We are looking for a talented cheminformatician, bioinformatician or someone with comparable skills to work on the development cloud-based methods for computational metabolomics. The successful candidate will work closely with the H2020 e-infrastructure project PhenoMeNal, a European consortium of 14 partners. This position requires excellent skills in at least one modern, object-oriented programming language. A strong interest in metabolomics and cloud computing as well as the ability to work in a distributed team will be advantageous. The postdoc will also have the opportunity to participate in the day-to-day management of the group as well as in the organisation of seminars and practical courses for our students.
- PhD student, biomedical information mining: In this phd project the candidate will combine methods of text mining, image mining and cheminformatics to extract information about metabolites and natural products from the published primary literature. This includes opportunities to work with the OpenMinTed consortium, where we have been leading the biomedical use case in the last 1.5 years, as well as with the ContentMine team.
- PhD student, cheminformatic prediction of natural product structures: Depending on skills and interests of the successful candidate, this project can target the problem of structure prediction of natural products and metabolite from either the side of spectroscopic information which one might have about an unknown natural product or starting from the genome of a natural product producing organism. Two positions are available in this area.
All PhD positions require a strong interest in molecular informatics and current IT technologies, programming skills a modern object oriented programming language and the ability to work in geographically distributed teams.
Please send applications in PDF format by email to christoph.steinbeck@uni-jena.de. We will accept applications until the position is filled.
Background information:
The Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU Jena), founded in 1558, is one of the oldest universities in Europe and a member in the COIMBRA group, a network of prestigious, traditional European universities. The University of Jena has a distinguished record of innovations and resulting educational strengths in major fields such as optics, photonics and optical technologies, innovative materials and related technologies, dynamics of complex biological systems and humans in changing social environments. It has more than 18,000 students. The university’s friendly and stimulating atmosphere and state-of-the-art facilities boost academic careers and enable excellence in learning, teaching and research. Assistance with proposing and inaugurating new research projects and with establishing public-private partnerships is considered a crucial point.
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