Postdoctoral Researcher

**Job Reference**: - 510_24_LS_CG_R2**Position**: - Postdoctoral Researcher - AI/ML in specific research lines in Life Sciences (R2) - AI4S**Closing Date**: - Monday, 16 September, 2024**Reference**: 510_24_LS_CG_R2**Job title**: Postdoctoral Researcher - AI/ML in specific research lines in Life Sciences (R2) - AI4S**About BSC** - The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries. Look at the BSC experience: BSC-CNS YouTube Channel Let's stay connected with BSC Folks We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences.**Context And Mission** - Lead by Professor Alfonso Valencia, the Life Sciences department seeks to lead the development of Personalized Medicine, covering the full complexity of biomedicine from molecular/atomic to physiological levels and addressing current and future challenges. The Department leads the computational aspects of the Personalised Medicine movement at European level developing technologies to interpret omic and biomedical information, including genome analysis of humans and microbiome, enzyme and drug design, and electronic medical record analysis and imaging with AI/ML methods. The next great advances in medicine, including AI/ML and simulations toward “human digital twins”, will require powerful and specialised co-designed software/hardware systems. The Department leads key initiatives uniquely blending science and engineering to build strategic alliances, secure diverse funding sources, and create sustainable HPC and HPDA infrastructures to tackle these complex problems. The Department is looking to hire several postdoctoral profiles in the context of the BSC AI4Science Fellowships (AI4S) in the following research lines and groups: - Large language models applied to proteins (Computational Biology) - AI methods applied to Drug Design (Electronic and Atomic Protein Modeling) - Generative AI for Multi-scale Representation of Genomes (Genome Informatics) - Topological analysis (New BSC group) - Topological analysis applied to biomedicine (New BSC group) The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan. "La financiación de estas actuaciones/becas y contratos, procede del Mecanismo de Recuperación y Resiliencia de la Unión Europea-Next Generation, en el marco de la Invitación General de la entidad pública empresarial Red.es para participar en los programas de atracción y retención del talento dentro de la Inversión 4 del Componente 19 del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.**Key Duties** - Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of scientists in the scope of the aforementioned research lines. - Contribute to writing research projects and publish research findings. - Participate in technical meetings with internal and external collaborators. - Supervise junior researchers and provide mentorship in their career path. **Requirements**: - Education - PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, physics, machine learning or related fields. - Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience - Knowledge of UNIX/Linux environments - Proficiency in Python, R or equivalent programming languages - Proven excellent scientific publication track record. - Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience - Experience in high performance computing - Background or interest in life sciences - Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in Spanish and other European languages would be advantageous. - Competences - Capacity to explore new research lines - Excellent communication and presentation skills - Ability to work both independently, within a team and in a multi-cultural environment. **Conditions** - The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department - We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infra