EMBL
Various sites, across Europe
Full-time
Location
Hinxton, Cambridgeshire
Staff Category
Predoctoral Fellow
Reference number
D_00383
Job Description
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) invites you to apply for PhD positions in Heidelberg, Grenoble Hamburg, Hinxton (near Cambridge), and Monterotondo (near Rome).
Would you like to contribute your creativity to an international team of scientists from all disciplines focusing on basic research in the area of molecular life sciences?
We invite candidates with background in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering and Molecular Medicine to apply.
EMBL opens the door to your scientific career: our students have an outstanding publication record, are a vital part of our global collaborations and receive their degrees jointly with our network of excellent partner universities in 17 different countries.
Our PhD positions come with generous fellowships, including broad health care benefits and pension access.
Qualifications and Experience
The successful candidate must have a demonstrated ability to lead and motivate technical teams in a distributed environment to deliver against challenging goals and timelines. It is essential that the post-holder has a robust understanding and experience from data-intensive high performance computing with demonstrated ability to predict and project technical developments and needs. Familiarity and experience with more than one software development methodology is essential. Contribution to collaborative open source projects is an asset.
The minimum educational requirement for this position is a University degree in the field of life-science, computer science, or another rigorous discipline with solid interest and experience of bioinformatics / medical informatics research. An advanced degree in one these fields is a plus, as is 5+ years experience in a life-science informatics research environment.
Applicants must be exceptionally self-motivated and service orientated, with a flexible approach. Our ideal candidate will be results orientated with the ability to lead teams in distributed and matrix-managed environments with excellent interpersonal skills. Having the ability to articulate ideas and vision to engage and inspire both technical and non-technical audiences is essential; candidates will therefore have excellent written and oral communication skills in English and preferably one other European language.
The role will involve travelling to ELIXIR nodes and occasional working outside normal office hours.
The registration deadline is 11 November 2013.
The deadline for submission of the online application is 18 November 2013.
EMBL is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer offering attractive conditions and benefits appropriate to an international research organisation.
Successful candidates would start their work at EMBL by mid of October 2014.
For further information , see our web page or contact EMBL Graduate Office.