Bio-informatician (m/f/x)
UCLouvain
- Charleroi, Hainaut
- Contrat
- Temps-plein
Internal and external job posting until the 25th of February 2024For de Duve institute (DDUV)
Main campus : Charleroi
Fixed-term, full-time contract, until the 31st of December 2025
Starting date : as soon as possibleContext / MissionThe Université catholique de Louvain is a French-speaking university present in six different locations, including Charleroi. With a multicultural and multilingual environment, UCLouvain is open to the world and hosts students and researchers from around the globe.
The university is highly ranked internationally and is a major employer in Wallonia and the Brussels region.
UCLouvain operates faculties, research institutes, and administration to fulfill the three missions of teaching, research, and service to society.e-OMIX is a new project launched a UCLouvain and aims at establishing a new bioinformatic hub to share and leverage omics data (collected from different platforms quantifying cellular molecular content) across different laboratories in Brussels and Wallonia for research and clinical purposes.Role
- Establish bioinformatics pipelines for preprocessing single-omics data (filtering, normalization, control of batch effect, quality control, etc.)
- Adhere to interoperability standards established by the FIHR consortium Ensure compatibility of omics data collected across different platforms and research groups by implanting HL7 FIHR standards.
- Integrate different types of omics data to favor a multiomics approach
- Conceive and automate supervised (regression, variable selection, etc.) or unsupervised (network analyses, clustering, PCA, etc.) statistical analyses.
- Master's degree in bioinformatics, statistics, computer sciences, biomedical sciences, bio-engineering, or equivalent
- Experience and/or keen interest in one or several of the following:
- One or multiple omics experimental technologies, data processing analysis and/or interpretation
- Interest in developing solutions for the exchange of biomedical data and in multicentric initiatives
- Solid background in statistics, machine learning/artificial intelligence
- Knowledge of one or more programming language (e.g., Rmarkdown, Python, BASH, etc.) and IDE (R, Jupyter notebooks, etc.)
- Collaborative research software development (e.g., unit testing, version control, continuous integration, Git, etc.)
- Experience in R/Bioconductor data structures, in particular those used for omics data analysis (e.g., SummarizedExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, QFeatures, etc.)
- Open and reproducible research
- Contribution to an open and inclusive research environment
- Good written and oral communication skills, english proficiency
- A collaborative work environment: The project is conjointly led by the Computational Biology (CBIO) and Computer Engineering (INGI) units from UCLouvain and will involve other major academic actors.
- The collaborator will be partly based in the A6K startup incubator in Charleroi, and partly home-based, (with occasional travels to UCLouvain's Brussels or Louvain-La-Neuve campuses)
- One-year fixed-term contract, with a possibility of extension
- Flexible work hours
- Reimbursement of public transportation cost