Tenure-track Group leader in the area of bioinformatics and related technologies in St. Gallen

Your tasks

• you lead with competent scientific and entrepreneurial guidance a team of scientists, Postdocs, PhDs and technicians and you actively collaborate with other Empa units, partner institutions and industrial partners in an interdisciplinary field
• you initiate and combine the new 'omics'-technologies with material research to provide new impulses for material-based health and health-care solutions
• your team achieves international recognition in the field of materials and system for precision medicine and related technologies
• you successfully present your results in scientific journals and at international conferences

Your profile

• scientific excellence and being an independent researcher
• experience in leading a scientific group
• PhD degree in, bioinformatics, informatics, physics, biochemistry, chemistry, or life science
• excellent knowledge and expertise in NGS, proteomics, bioinformatics and big data analysis
• creative, curious and interdisciplinary
• successful in project acquisition (SNF, InnoSwiss or similar grants)
• experienced in project management and writing scientific publications