Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Post-doc position in Pisa (CNR) in Algorithmics for Next Generation Sequencing e System Biology. Deadline for application 31-3-2012

Postdoc fellowship in "Algorithms in Systems Biology and Next Generation
Sequencing"

Job Description:

Istituto di Informatica e Telematica Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Pisa - Italy.

A post-doc position in Bio-informatics to be held at the Istituto di
Informatica e Telematica of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
of Italy in the year 2012 has been advertised at:
http://www.iit.cnr.it/formazione_lavoro/offerte_lavoro Call number 4.

See also:
http://www.iit.cnr.it/sites/default/files/bando%20di%20selezione%20n.%204_2012.pdf

The awarding of the position is via a public selection consisting in a
written application and an interview. Please refer to the official call
(In Italian) for details of the profile and of the procedures.

Here is a brief summary (in case of discrepancies only the official call
at CNR -IIT web site is binding).

The fellowship will be funded within LISM (Laboratory for Integrative
System Medicine)
jointly managed by Istituto di Informatica e Telematica (IIT) and
Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica (IFC).

A brief sketch of the relevant conditions is as follows.

Level: Post-doc (Assegno di Ricerca) Duration: 1 year, with possible
renewal. We expect funding to be available for 2 more years.

Commencement: within 2 months of termination of the selection procedures.

Salary: - Post Doc (Requirements: minimum 3 years of Ph.D. studies, Ph.D.
degree and less than two years of research after obtaining the Ph.D.)
Entry salary: (gross) 22000 Euro/year (equivalent 1670 Euro/month after
tax).
Increment of 2000 Euro/year gross for each further year.

Deadline for applications: March 31st 2012. Start date within 2 months
of selection.

General Themes: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Biological
Data Mining. Design and Analysis of Algorithms.

Specific Themes: "Study, implementation and validation of innovative
algorithms in Systems Biology and Next Generation Sequencing"

Requirements:

- Master degree in Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, or
Bioinformatics, or Biology.

- PhD in Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, or Bioinformatics,
or Biology.

- Experience in the Specific theme of tha call.

- Knowledge of English

- Knowledge of Italian (elementary)


Duration: 1 year (renewable for 2 more years)

Funding Source: CNR

Contact Person for enquiries: Marco Pellegrini

E-Mail: marco.pellegrini@iit.cnr.it

Tel: +39-050-3152410
Fax: +39-050-3152333

Group Web Page: http://bioalgo.iit.cnr.it/