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Bioinformatician AES2018 as Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba

IMIBIC CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: Bioinformatician AES2018

For information about the competitive call AES2018 please read the call documentation (Subsección 6ª. Contratos de técnicos bioinformáticos de apoyo a la investigación en los IIS): http://www.isciii.es/ISCIII/es/contenidos/fd-investigacion/fd-financiacion/fd-convocatorias-ayudas-accion-estrategica-salud/2018/AES_2018.pdf

Responsible Investigator: Sebastián Ventura Soto

Title of the offered position: Contract for bioinformatician AES2018

Professional category of the recruited candidate: Postdoctoral

Summary of the Project / Research area

The selected candidate will work to optimize the use of the available technological resources and computational infrastructure pertaining to the Bioinformatics Unit and IMIBIC and offer bioinformatics services to the IMIBIC research community.

The main objective of IMIBIC’s Bioinformatics Unit is to support the institute’s personalized medicine program by establishing lines of work and research in the area of omics and bioinformatics together with the IMIBIC research community and by supporting its translational clinical research activities. The Bioinformatics Unit plays an important role in enabling innovation and research projects that bring applied omics research to clinical practice and favors the generation and development of new translational approaches that may be implemented in the public health system.

Working conditions

  • Gross salary (salary, other benefits, etc...): 2.238,00 € Gross/month
  • Type of the contract (temporal, indefinite..): Temporal
  • Form of employment (full time / part time): Full time
  • Duration of the contract: IMIBIC CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: Bioinformatician AES2018

For information about the competitive call AES2018 please read the call documentation (Subsección 6ª. Contratos de técnicos bioinformáticos de apoyo a la investigación en los IIS): http://www.isciii.es/ISCIII/es/contenidos/fd-investigacion/fd-financiacion/fd-convocatorias-ayudas-accion-estrategica-salud/2018/AES_2018.pdf

  • Responsible Investigator: Sebastián Ventura Soto
  • Title of the offered position: Contract for bioinformatician AES2018
  • Professional category of the recruited candidate: Postdoctoral

Summary of the Project / Research area

The selected candidate will work to optimize the use of the available technological resources and computational infrastructure pertaining to the Bioinformatics Unit and IMIBIC and offer bioinformatics services to the IMIBIC research community.

The main objective of IMIBIC’s Bioinformatics Unit is to support the institute’s personalized medicine program by establishing lines of work and research in the area of omics and bioinformatics together with the IMIBIC research community and by supporting its translational clinical research activities. The Bioinformatics Unit plays an important role in enabling innovation and research projects that bring applied omics research to clinical practice and favors the generation and development of new translational approaches that may be implemented in the public health system.

Working conditions

  • Gross salary (salary, other benefits, etc...): 2.238,00 € Gross/month
  • Type of the contract (temporal, indefinite..): Temporal
  • Form of employment (full time / part time): Full time
  • Duration of the contract: 24 months

Eligibility criteria

Minimum requirements

  1. Degree in Life Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering or similar field.
  2. PhD or Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Life Sciences or related field.

Selection process

The selection process consists of evaluation, ranking of all CVs received and personal interviews. Following the evaluation of the merits of all applicants based on their CVs, the five (5) highest ranked applicants will be called for a personal interview in order to evaluate more precisely their communication skills and capabilities for the offered position. The personal interview counts up to maximum of 3 points.

The final ranking will be obtained by summarizing the points of the evaluation of the CV and the interview. The highest ranked candidate will be selected to apply as IMIBIC’s candidate for the competitive call of the Acción Estratégica en Salud 2018 (Subsección 6ª. Contratos de técnicos bioinformáticos de apoyo a la investigación en los IIS): http://www.isciii.es/ISCIII/es/contenidos/fd-investigacion/fd-financiacion/fd-convocatorias-ayudas-accion-estrategica-salud/2018/AES_2018.pdf

Additional comments

Requested documentation

  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Documentation accrediting the fulfilment of the minimum requirements

In order to properly assess the experience, it is necessary to indicate in the CV the duration in months of the previous working experience.

How to apply and application deadline

Applications should be sent by email to personal@imibic.org. It is obligatory to indicate the reference of the offer in the subject field of the email. Applications failing to do so will not be evaluated

Web site for additional job details

http://www.imibic.org/ofertas/050220180.pdf

Offer Requirements

  • REQUIRED EDUCATION LEVEL
    Information science: Master Degree or equivalent
    Computer science: Master Degree or equivalent
    Biological sciences: Master Degree or equivalent
    Mathematics: Master Degree or equivalent
    Engineering: Master Degree or equivalent
  • REQUIRED LANGUAGES
    SPANISH: Excellent
    ENGLISH: Good

Skills/Qualifications

  • Degree: Degree in Life Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering or similar field.
  • Level: PhD or Master in bioinformatics, biostatistics, life sciences or related field.

Specific Requirements

Minimum requirements:

  1. Degree in Life Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering or similar field.
  2. PhD or Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Life Sciences or related field.

Valued merits:

  • Experience in: (0.05 points for each month of experience, up to a maximum of 2.5 points):
    • Statistical computing R.
    • Other statistics/mathematical tools: SPSS, Matlab, Mathematica, etc.
    • Programming languages Python and/or PERL.
    • Java and C/C++
    • Data bases SQL and NOSQL.
    • Analysis of genomic, proteomic and metabolomic data.
    • Implementation of workflows, pipelines, data analysis and process priorization.
    • Analysis of gene expression, NGS, RNA Seq data.
  • Education/Training relevant to the offered position (up to a maximum of 2.5 points):
    • PhD: 1 point.
    • Master’s degree: 0.5 points for each degree.
    • Specialization: 0.01 points for each hour of demonstrable training.
  • Scientific publications (JCR), up to a maximum of 1 point:
    • First decile or first quartile and as first, corresponding or last author: 0.2 points for each publication.
    • First decile or first quartile and not as first, corresponding or last author: 0.1 points for each publication.
    • Publications in other than first quartile journals, and as first, corresponding or last author: 0.08 points for each publication.
    • Publications in other than first quartile journals, and not as first, corresponding or last author: 0.05 points for each publication.
  • Participation in research projects: (up to a maximum of 1 point).
    •  Project’s principle investigator: 0.5 points for each project
    •  Project team member: 0.25 points for each project.

(original source: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/280043)