BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY: PERMANENT PROFESSOR POSITION

Job Description:
The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invite applicants for a new professor position within bioinformatics and computational biology.

The new position will be anchored at the Faculty of Science, at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and/or at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. This permanent position is a core component in the future vision of the Danish strategy for Precision Medicine (see http://www.sum.dk/English/Healthcare-in-Denmark-An-Overview/Personalised-Medicine.aspx ) and part of a major strategic investment at SDU on Precision Medicine involving the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Odense University Hospital (OUH) (see http://bioinformatics.sdu.dk ). The position will strengthen existing research groups at SDU and OUH, including the newly established Centre of Excellence in Functional Genomics and Tissue Plasticity (ATLAS, see https://www.sdu.dk/en/atlas ).

We will support the successful candidate in building his/her research group in an interdisciplinary context, for example by taking advantage of the computational and experimental platforms and database resources in the SDU eScience Center, the VILLUM Center for Bioanalytical Sciences, the Danish Twin Registry at SDU/OUH, and Danish Patient Databank resources.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate is expected to play a leading role in shaping the educational profiles of bioinformatics and computational biomedicine at SDU.

The research fields that we are looking to hire within are:

• Computational Systems Biology
• Computational Precision Medicine
• Big Data in Biomedicine
• Multi-omics data integration

Coming either with a life science or computer science background, a successful candidate is expected to demonstrate skills and leadership in large-scale data mining and associated biostatistics, cross-disciplinary data integration, artificial intelligence, big data analysis or cloud computing. The candidate will have demonstrated the ability to apply these methods in the context of large-scale genomics, proteomics or metabolomics experiments in cutting-edge research in clinical, biomedical or biological sciences with relevance to precision medicine. We expect a successful candidate to show a substantial, internationally competitive research profile with emphasis on high-throughput data analysis in the context of basic life sciences, biomedicine, and clinical research and applications.

Candidates are expected to demonstrate a focused and ambitious research program and a strong leadership profile. Experience in management of collaborative multi-disciplinary research projects is an advantage as well as a track-record of attracting competitive external funding. Applicants are expected to have substantial experience in teaching and supervision at all levels. Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Danish is not a prerequisite for application. However, the primary administrative language at SDU is Danish and staff should therefore be willing to acquire Danish skills within a couple of years.

The employment of a successful candidate is expected to be either at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science or at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology or possibly in a combination of these, depending on the candidate's background and research programme.

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Skills :

• Biostatistics
• Cloud Computing
• Data Mining
• genomic
• Teaching

Areas :

• Bioinformatics
• Computational Biology

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Additional Info:
SDU offers a modern, inclusive, international and interdisciplinary working environment with state-of-the-art facilities as well as a strong tradition for collaboration across the two faculties of Science and Health Sciences and the University Hospital. As the two faculties and the hospital within a few years will share one major campus in Odense, further synergies and stronger ties between the units are expected. In addition to BSc, MSc and PhD education in Computer Science, Biomedicine and Biochemistry, SDU also offers a newly established international MSc degree in Computational Biomedicine. The SDU eScience Center is a national provider of HPC infrastructure for research, and thus offers access to attractive computational resources for life sciences.

To Apply:

For more information, please contact Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Jakob Møller Jensen jakobm@bmb.sdu.dk, or Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Martin Svensson svensson@imada.sdu.dk.

Application deadline: 1 February 2018

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