The Biotechnology Centre is setting up a Bioinformatics Service Unit. We are now offering postdoc job positions for 3 Postdoctoral Fellows who will conduct research and development in collaboration with other scientists at the Biotechnology Center in Germany. The life-sciences campus in Dresden offers a very competitive research setting including a 3,000 node supercomputer at the university as well as strong local partners applying latest experimental technologies. The interdisciplinary Biotechnology Center provides a stimulating, international environment for leading research. The computing hardware at the Institute includes cutting edge database servers and a cluster for parallel computation. The positions are initially offered for two years and further extension will be possible. The period of employment is governed by the Fixed Term Research Contracts Act (WissZeitVG) .

Responsibilities: The scientists at the Bioinformatics Service Unit will conduct research in collaboration with the research groups at BIOTEC. The scientists have no teaching obligations.

Postdoc job requirements: We are seeking creative, highly motivated researchers with a track record of peer reviewed publications. Candidates must have a strong quantitative background and have received, or are soon expecting, a Ph.D. degree in relevant areas, including Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or Engineering. The expertise of the Service Unit will cover the areas sequence analysis, expression data analysis, structural biology and protein interaction prediction, textmining, network biology, as well as design and implementation of biological databases. Candidates with expertise in any of the above areas are encouraged to apply. For more details see

http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de

Applications from women are particularly welcome. The same applies to disabled people.

Applications received by March 17th 2009, (Deadlines refer to the date on the postmark of the University`s Post Room Service) will get full consideration. We will continue to review applications until the position is filled. Please send a CV, a list of publications, a summary of current/past research (1-2 pages), and two or three letters of recommendation to

Katrin Grosser,
katrin.grosser@biotec.tu-dresden.de
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or

TU Dresden
BIOTEC
Katrin Grosser
Tatzberg 47-51
01307 Dresden
Germany.