Department of Plant Sciences

We invite applications for a post-doctoral research associate in bioinformatics to join the Crop Science Centre at the University of Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences. The successful applicant will work in the brand new and vibrant Crop Science Centre: a flagship initiative designed to accelerate the transition to sustainable agriculture. Funding is available for three years initially, with a flexible start date within the next 6 months. The appointee will join a proudly international, diverse, and welcoming collection of researchers.

This is a collaborative role, conducting and supporting the research of the Crop Science Centre as a whole. As such, the successful applicant will have the opportunity to deploy cutting edge bioinformatics tools to a variety of interesting and important problems in the area of sustainable agriculture. These may include, but are not limited to: sequencing (in all its forms), structural modelling, phenotyping, phylogenetics, analysis of extremely large data sets, and data visualisation.

https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/40892/