Postdoctoral researcher position at Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands

‘Biomanufacturing and Digital Twins’ team led by Prof. Vitor A. P. Martins dos Santos

2 years, full time-time employment with possible extension

Position duties and responsibilities:

• creation of a Digital Twin to mimic cells and bioprocesses by intertwining AI and experimental data for robust and scalable biomanufacturing;
• development and deployment of data-driven approaches, exploiting AI to empower novel decision support systems and digital twins, the latter being to better design bioprocesses and enable their real-time online control. Eventually these models will be employed for self-controlled autonomous microbial production of a number of industrially valuable compounds;
• the development, optimization and exploitation of genome-scale metabolic and other models using experimental data (e.g., omics, real-time measurements) acquired by the ‘wet’ team members of the projects, including bioprospecting and pathway discovery.

Required qualifications:

• as Postdoc computational biology you have a high interest in the following research topics: Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle, autonomous biomanufacturing, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering. Besides this, you have:A successfully completed PhD degree in Computational Biology, Computational Chemical Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology and/or Digital Twins, or in a relevant field;
• prior expertise in machine learning and data models with focus on biotechnology;
• excellent programming skills in Python are essential. Knowledge of other programming languages is desired;
• experience in implementing computational methods to bioprocesses;
• experience in genome-scale modeling and omics analysis;
• strong publication record in top-tier peer-review journals;
• problem solving capacities and excellent communication skills (spoken and written).

Offered conditions:

• Gross salary of between €3226,- and €5090,-
• sabbatical leave, study leave, and partially paid parental leave;
• working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance;
• the option to accrue additional compensation / holiday hours by working more, up to 40 hours per week;
• there is a strong focus on vitality and you can make use of the sports facilities available on campus for a small fee;
• a fixed December bonus of 8.3%;
• excellent pension scheme.

Application deadline: 

February 1st, 2024

More details: 

https://www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/postdoc-computational-biology-and-digital-twins-in-industrial-biotechnology.htm