The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön (Schleswig-Holstein) consists of three departments (Evolutionary Genetics, Evolutionary Theory and Microbial Population Biology), and multiple department-independent research groups. It is focused on basic research to unravel general evolutionary processes. The scope of the work includes ecological, organismic, cellular, molecular and theoretical approaches.
To strengthen our institute we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher (m/f/d) with strong interest in research software development to support us part-time (19.5h/week) in the implementation of the work plan of the NFDI4BIOIMAGE consortium. The position is initially limited to 2 years.
Your tasks
- Development and enhancement of ontologies and metadata standards in the field of experimental evolutionary biology, specifically in the context of imaging methods.
- Development and maintenance of software for semantic metadata annotation in the image database system OMERO
- Contribute to the development of a knowledge and data infrastructure based on Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies integrating heterogeneous internal and external data sources
- Regularly prepare work and progress reports for the consortium
Your profile
- PhD in biology, bioinformatics, or related discipline
- Proven experience in the development of ontologies or metadata standards, image data management and semantic annotation
- Fluency in at least one of the following programming languages: R, Python, Julia, Java, or C/C++
- Experience in the utilization of both relational database management systems (RDBMS) and NoSQL systems, especially RDF/SPARQL required.
- Experience in the application of Deep Learning to image analysis is considered an asset
- Willingness to work in a team in an internationally distributed consortium
- Willingness to participate in meetings and conferences, as well as to occasionally co-supervise interns, undergraduate students, and graduate students
We offer
- An exciting interdisciplinary and highly international working environment
- Flexible working hours (flexitime)
- Remuneration according to your qualifications and professional experience in accordance with the collective agreement for the public sector (TVöD Bund) up to remuneration level E 13.
- Possibilities for further development of the scientific profile and independent research work in the field of application of modern light microscopic procedures and analysis methods including Big Data Analytics and Deep Learning to questions of microbial evolutionary biology
- Social benefits based on public service regulations, including supplementary pensions.
If you have any questions about this position, please contact Carsten Fortmann-Grote (carsten.fortmann-grote@evolbio.mpg.de).
The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such qualified individuals. The Max Planck Society strives for gender and diversity equality. We welcome applications from all backgrounds. The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more disabled individuals and especially encourages them to apply. The Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply.
Your application
Please send your written application including CV, a maximum of 3 selected own scientific publications, links to two own publicly accessible software repositories (e.g. github) and a short letter of motivation until 02.07.2023 via email as one summarized PDF file to: bewerbung@evolbio.mpg.de. We expressly refrain from submitting photographs / application photos and therefore ask you to refrain from doing so.