Academic employee at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research

BEMÆRK: Ansøgningsfristen er overskredet

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
University of Copenhagen

We are looking for an academic employee to come and join us in the Human Proteome Variation group at The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR – www.cpr.ku.dk).

CPR comprises a wide range of expertise and resources including proteomics, protein production, general characterization of disease mechanisms, and bioinformatics. The Programme for Disease Systems Biology (DSB) consists of three research groups covering many systems level aspects of biology and medicine, including large scale analysis of human variation data and integration of molecular-level and healthcare data.

The Human Proteome Variation group (https://www.cpr.ku.dk/research/disease-systems-biology/rasmussen/) is part of the Diseases Systems Biology program and led by Associate Professor Simon Rasmussen. The group focuses on developing and applying computational methods to human variation data, especially genome, proteome, microbiome and clinical data. A focus interest of the group is to develop and apply deep learning for integration of such dataset to generate new biological knowledge. We develop bioinformatics methods using either public data or data generated from our collaborators. The team spirit is inclusive, and we promote diversity.

Your job
The position is as a in a research project aimed at identifying and characterizing novel plasmids from large scale metagenomic datasets. The employee will mainly be assisting with gathering, organizing and cleaning large scale metagenomic data. The work will also involve some bioinformatic and/or statistical analysis of the data. The employee will be expected to provide general support to the different researchers within the group at various stages of their research.

Qualifications
The ideal candidate should have the following qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in biology, molecular biology or a related field
• Some knowledge of metagenomics, microbial ecology or microbiology
• Experience in computational biology, bioinformatics or deep learning
• Programming experience in a language such as Bash, Python, Julia or R
• An interest in big data biology and/or plasmid biology
• Excellent communication skills, and good written and spoken English

As the research group works highly collaboratively, including with other research groups nationally and internationally, strong networking and team player skills are a must.

Place of employment and work
The employment is at CPR (www.cpr.ku.dk), University of Copenhagen, located in central Copenhagen. The research environment at CPR is ambitious and international, with approx. 30 different nationalities currently represented. The Center comprises modern laboratories, supercomputer resources and state-of-the-art facilities within protein science. Seminars with high-profile international speakers and regular internal research seminars are organized at the Center. The selected candidate should expect some travel activity.

Terms of salary and employment
The part-time position is for 12 months and is starting 1 October 2023. The working hours will be 12 hours per week. The position will due to the working hours be a great student job.

Salary, pension and terms of employment will be in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Academics Central organization. You will be employed as an academic employee. In addition to the seniority-based salary, supplements maybe negotiated on an individual basis.

Application Procedure
Your application must be submitted in English by clicking on ‘Apply online’ below. Furthermore, your application must include the following documents/attachments – all in PDF format:

• Motivated application in English
• Curriculum vitae
• Relevant certificates

Deadline for application: 15 August 2023, 23.59 p.m. CET.

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position.

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KU - SUND - PANUM KBH N, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 København N

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Ansøgningsfrist: 15-08-2023; - ansøgningsfristen er overskredet

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