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Postdoctoral research job opportunities in Bioinformatics
Postdoctoral research job opportunities in Bioinformatics
5-year contract – deadline 20 April 08
Applications are invited for SENIOR RESEARCHER positions in Bioinformatics, in a multidisciplinary project involving Informatics, Structural Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Materials Science and Physics. The positions offered are for a 5 year contract to work at CENTRIA, the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in the Faculty of Science of the New University of Lisbon
The candidates must have earned a Ph.D. for more than 3 years, in the areas of machine learning and data mining, constraint programming and optimisation, simulation (including artificial life) or other Artificial Intelligence areas. In exceptional cases, duly justified, we may consider accepting applicants with less than 3 years of post-doctoral experience. For further information, check out
http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=8430
The candidates should be familiar with application of these techniques to bioinformatics applications, namely for sequence matching and comparison, determination of protein structure and interaction, analysis of metabolic pathways, assessment of philogenetic trees, and be able to interact with scientists from within and outside of the Institution, not only from the above mentioned research areas, but also from the areas of Structural Biochemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology.
In addition to such interaction, the candidates are expected to help with post-graduate teaching, including the supervision of post-graduate students, and to write research papers as well as project and grant applications. For any further information contact Prof. Pedro Barahona (pb@di.fct.unl.pt or address below).
Candidates will profit from the technical facilities and expertise available at CENTRIA, at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where they will be stationed.
The salary is about 3.101€/month, 14 months a year, before 35% tax retention. The contract includes social benefits and retirement fund.
Please send detailed curriculum vitae and two reference letters to:
Prof. Luís Moniz Pereira
Director
Centro de Inteligência Artificial
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Quinta da Torre
2825-516 Caparica
Portugal
Wednesday, 12th of March 2008
Departamento de Informática, FCT/UNL
Quinta da Torre 2829-516 CAPARICA - Portugal
Tel. (+351) 21 294 8536 FAX (+351) 21 294 8541
