The Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and ranks among the top 20 universities worldwide. The EPFL employs 6,000 people supporting the three main missions of the institutions: education, research and technology transfer. The EPFL campus offers an exceptional working environment at the heart of a community of 16,000 people, including over 10,000 students and 3,500 researchers from 120 different countries.
Bioinformatician/Biostatistician
Your mission :
The EPFL Laboratory of Virology and Genetics (headed by prof. Didier Trono) is looking for a bioinformatician. The team is part of the EPFL School of Life Sciences and offers a challenging and stimulating environment with outstanding career opportunities and excellent benefits. Main duties and responsibilities include :
The candidate must be highly motivated, like programming and be Unix-proficient.
S/he will support researchers in analyzing and interpreting Next Generation Sequencing data (mainly RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, methylation analysis and variant analysis) as well as in planning their bench experiments.
Junior candidate is eligible since s/he will work together with several senior bioinformaticians who will assist her/him during the learning process. Your profile :
Title: Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, Statistics or Life Sciences.
Attitude:
Highly motivated
Good communication skills
Proactive
Technical skills:
Unix and shell scripting
Good programming ability. Fluent in R/Bioconductor and/or python
Good knowledge of statistics and data modeling
Languages:
English (French is a plus)
Ideal skills:
Knowledge in biology in general and cancer biology in particular
Experience in the analysis of NGS data
Experience in HPC
We offer :
Full-time position with an initial fixed-term contract of 1 year. Salary and employment conditions are according to the regulations of the EPFL. Start date :
