.The Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) aims to fill a Junior Group Leader position in the fields of Computational and Quantitative Biology.We are looking for candidates in the early stage of their career with a strong background in computational biology, statistics and/or machine learning/AI techniques, and an excellent track record of computational research in the life sciences, focused on developing and/or applying methodologies for the analysis of multimodal biological data, such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, or imaging, at the single-cell and/or spatially resolved levels.
We are also looking for candidates with an excellent track record in biomedical research that effectively combines experimental work and computational/machine learning approaches to study living systems quantitatively, in areas including, but not limited to, metabolomics, evolutionary medicine, regenerative medicine, aging, neuroscience, systems genetics, bioengineering, and cell and developmental biology.Successful candidates (computational position) will be highly accomplished young scientists with a PhD in Biology, Bioinformatics, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science or a similar field, and a strong capacity to lead high-impact research projects.
Successful candidates (quantitative position) will be highly accomplished young scientists with a PhD in Biology, Bioinformatics, Physics, Computational Biology or a similar field, and a strong capacity to lead high-impact research projects that integrate both experimental and computational approaches.
The future group leader should be able to supervise directly both the experimental and computational work.The future group leader should be driven by a desire to contribute to questions of biological and/or medical relevance, independently and in collaboration with other researchers from the Department.
The selected candidate is also expected to attract national and international research funds, supervise doctoral theses, and teach courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.The Department of Medicine and Life Sciences at UPFMELIS ( https://www.Upf.Edu/biomed ) is an internationally renowned biomedical research center in Barcelona, Spain.
It is located at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB, https://www.Prbb.Org ) with other research institutes, including the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (HMRI), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL Barcelona), and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
With a staff of more than 300 scientists, MELIS combines the creation and transfer of knowledge through the seamless integration of research and teaching, well in line with the vision and values of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( https://www.Upf