Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
University of Copenhagen
At the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, a position as Academic Research Officer in Bioinformatics is available as soon as possible.
Who are we?
The Department of Immunology and Microbiology runs a core facility for flow cytometry, single cell sequencing, and an in vivo imaging (IVIS) facility https://fcsc.ku.dk/ providing services for approx. 400 users from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, the Faculty of Science, regional hospitals, and local biotech companies, each with their different areas of specialization.
You will meet people with very different tasks to be solved on our instruments. The people using our instruments are on very different levels in their careers: students, postdocs, and faculty members doing both basic and clinical research. Each user has a very individual approach and knowledge about the technology they use, and you should be able to understand the users’ different skills.
The department is responsible for the “Master in Immunology and Inflammation” education. This education attracts primarily foreign students with a background in immunology, and approx. 30 new students start every autumn semester. The education is under reconstruction as we wish to introduce a bioinformatics course for the students, and assignments in bioinformatics in the adjacent course of the education.
Work assignments:
The work assignments in the core facility are:
Much of the daily work is done independently as to how the assignments are performed, planning the tasks together with the users that request our help, and solving problems that suddenly emerge and need to be handled.
We are looking for:
You will be part of our team that includes three full-time staff members and its leader, Professor Jan Pravsgaard Christensen. The team plans the daily tasks together, and we expect you to be part of this team.
The facility is constantly expanding or changing, so we can offer new instruments and protocols. We expect that you will take part in this development work, which requires testing, optimization, and validation of new protocols in agreement with the daily leader.
Qualifications:
Education as Master of Science or equivalent education, preferably supplemented with a PhD. You have documented experience in sequencing related bioinformatics. Your approach to the position should be service of users, their experiments, and development of the facility - not your individual research. Thus, you need to be welcoming and service-oriented and able to work independently and meticulously.
We offer:
Terms of salary and employment:
The employment as academic research officer is a full-time position (37 hours per week), and the starting date is as soon as possible. Employment will be in accordance with the provisions of the collective agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and AC (the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations). The monthly salary will be based on the number of years of work experience (seniority) with the possibility to negotiate a salary supplement based on prior experiences and qualifications. The employer will pay an additional 17.1 % to your pension fund.
Questions:
For further information regarding the position, please contact Professor Jan Pravsgaard Christensen on mail jpc@sund.ku.dk or phone 35 32 78 73.
Homepage:
www.isim.ku.dk and https://fcsc.ku.dk/
Application:
Your application should be in English and include:
Please submit your application by clicking on “Apply Now” below. Only online applications will be accepted.
Application deadline: 8 February 2023, 23.59 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 above-mentioned requirements.
The University of Copenhagen wish to reflect the diversity of society and encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of personal background.
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