About Department of Virus & Microbiological Special Diagnostics
As our new colleague, you will be a part of the Department of Virus & Microbiological Special Diagnostics (VMS), where we perform diagnostics and provides clinical guidance for viral infections and serology.
The department is the national central laboratory for human virology, including surveillance of viral infections and research and development within the field. The department comprises the national WHO Centre on influenza, polio and measles/rubella.
The department is also a member of the European Network for Imported Viral Diseases (ENIVD), thus participating in the European collaboration on surveillance of viral infections.
About the position:
We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic postdoc.
You will be involved in research activities within the frame of the FluZooMark project.
Your primary task will be to assist in the bioinformatics requirements for the FluZooMark project as well as assisting in implementing additional viral bioinformatic tools for viral surveillance.
The research project involves bioinformatics, and you will be looking for viral molecular markers in the viral genome related to zoonotic transmission from NGS data of thousands of influenza virus samples from both human and swine origin.
Required qualifications:
Ideally, you are a bioinformatician with a PhD. You have experience working with viral data and you feel comfortable working with this data already. You will require the ability to install and run various viral bioinformatics pipelines on a Linux server and be able to, with the assistance of the Virologists, interpret the results.
You speak English fluently though Danish fluency is also a benefit.
Technical requirements:
- Fluency within a Linux environment
- Install, run, debug, and maintain bioinformatic pipelines
Optional requirements:
- Knowledge of virology (i.e. Influenza)
- Programming/Statistical knowledge (i.e. Python, R)
- Experience with bioinformatic tools/pipelines (i.e. V-pipe, NextStrain, PyMol, BEAST)
- Experience with Sweep Dynamics plots
Terms of employment:
The employment as postdoc is a full time and fixed-term position for three years.
The employment will be in accordance with the terms of the collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Federation of Professional Associations (AC-overenskomsten) and the Danish Ministry of Finance’s circular concerning the job structure for scientific staff working with research at sector research institutions (Stillingsstruktur for videnskabeligt personale med forskningsopgaver ved sektorforskningsinstitutioner).
If you come from abroad, we will be happy to assist you in the transition process.
Further information.
For further details and informal enquiries please contact Senior Scientist Ramona Trebbien phone +45 32683591 or email ratr@ssi.dk
Application and recruitment process:
Click “apply” to send your job application with the following appendixes
- curriculum vitae (CV)
- copies of relevant academic diplomas (master and PhD)
- list of scientific publications
- 2-3 scientific publications.
Your research qualifications will be assessed by a scientific assessment committee in accordance with the current Danish rules for employment of scientific staff working with research at sector research institutions in Denmark.
Interviews is expected to be held between 6 January 2020 and 17 January 2020.
Application deadline
1 January 2020
