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e-OMIX has currently an opening for a Bioinformatician (m/f/x)

e-OMIX is a project in bioinformatics and computer sciences co-led by two research groups at UCLouvain. Its main objective is to build and deploy a platform to analyze and explore omics data.  We are looking for an experienced bioinformatician/computational biologist to overview the development, testing and implementation of omics analysis workflows, and integrate them with innovative database solutions.

UCLouvain is a French-speaking university present in six different locations, with a recently established campus in Charleroi. With a multicultural and multilingual environment, UCLouvain hosts students and researchers from around the world. The university is highly ranked internationally and is a major employer in Wallonia and in Brussels. UCLouvain operates faculties, research institutes, and administration to fulfill the three missions of teaching, research, and service to society.

Role

• Establish bioinformatics pipelines for end-to-end processing of single-omics data (genome alignment, peptide identification, features filtering, normalization, control of batch effect, QC, etc.)

• Explore multi-omics data integration strategies with unsupervised analyses (e.g., MOFA, scGLUE, etc.)

• Develop visualization modules for visual exploration of bulk, single cell, and spatially resolved data

Qualifications

• Master’s degree (Master 120) in bioinformatics, statistics, computer sciences, biomedical sciences, bio-engineering, or closely related field

• Programming language for biological data analyses (R or Python); Additional experience in bash or JAVA is an asset, as well as in related IDEs (RStudio, VSCode, Jupyter Notebooks, etc.)

• Software development practices: CI/CD, unit testing, versioning (Git), containerization (Docker)

• Databases for large datasets (Zarr, TileDB, Parquet, DuckDB, etc.)

• Familiarity with the Bioconductor ecosystem and data structures (SummarizedExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, etc.); Seurat, scverse or similar libraries.

• Workflow management tools (nextflow, snakemake)

• Background in statistics, machine learning, and/or artificial intelligence

• Interest in open science, reproducible research, FAIR data practices

• Contribution to an open and inclusive research environment

• Good written and oral communication skills, English proficiency

Our offer

• A collaborative work environment: The project is a joint initiative of the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics unit (CBIO) and the Laboratory for Medical Informatics (LIMe) at UCLouvain and will involve other major academic actors in Belgium.

• The collaborator will be based partly at the A6K startup incubator in Charleroi and partly working from home, with occasional travels to the UCLouvain campuses in Brussels and Louvain-La-Neuve.

• Flexible work hours

• Funding is available until December 2026.

• Reimbursement of public transportation costs + bicycle plan

Application

Candidates are invited to send their application (CV and cover letter detailing programming skills and scientific achievements) to jerome.linden@uclouvain.be