Postdoc in Bioinformatics or Bioinformatician

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• Processing, analyzing and interpreting gene expression data across various biological contexts, including ribosome profiling, single-cell CRISPR methods such asROP-seq, single-cell RNA sequencing, proteomics and time-resolved molecular recording.
• Developing new bioinformatics pipelines for gene expression analyses, particularly for our single-cell ribosome profiling strategy and in vivo molecular recording.
• Actively engaging and working closely with our multidisciplinary team of PhD students and postdocs to support them with their own analyses and perform analyses for their projects.
• Performing advanced statistical analysis, pathway & network analysis, integrating complex clinical, biological and molecular data.
• Contributing to data visualization, figure generation and interpretation for publications and grant applications.
• Maintaining meticulous documentation of analyses and workflows using repositories such as Git Hub.

• Ph.D. in bioinformatics, computational biology or a closely related field, with demonstrated computational research experience and a strong publication record.
• Proven expertise in gene expression analysis, including single-cell approaches.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as R, Python, C/C++, or Perl.
• Experience with high-performance computing environments is an advantage.
• Excellent understanding of statistics and experience with complex biological datasets.
• Strong communication skills and enthusiasm for working in an interdisciplinary, collaborative team; willingness to be actively involved in the team's projects.
• High degree of independence, self‑motivation and commitment.