Post-doctoral position (2 years+) on EU Horizion 2020 Grant Precision Toxicology (PrecisionTox)


Duration: Two years (possible prolongation for two years)
Starting date: As soon as possible
Salary: Likely German T-VL 13 (100%), depending on qualifications

Your qualifications:
  • Finished PhD (or briefly before finishing) in Toxicology, Biochemistry, Bioinfomatics, Computational biology, Biotechnology
  • Experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, R)
  • Experience/skills in biological database development, front-end UI development
  • Teaching/training experience is a plus
Job duties:
  • Conduct computational investigations in the fields of predictive toxicology using unconventional animal models
  • Development of database and front-end GUI to support experimental data sharing within and outside the project
  • Work in close international academic & industrial collaborators

For further project descriptions see precisiontox.org. For further information about the group see russelllab.org. If you are interested, please send your application to Rob Russell per email: robert.russell@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de or telephone (+49 6221 54 51 362).

Our group, together with multiple groups in Europe and the US was awarded this grant in October 2020. The five year project aims to use alternative animal model systems, coupled to massive high-throughput data collection, evolutionary analysis and data integration to make predictions of chemical toxicity in humans. Our role in this project is multi-faceted, including studying protein structure, evolution, protein-protein and protein-chemical interactions, metabolism, gene expression and more.