Protein Design Data Scientist & Infra Lead

1000scholars; København; On-site; DKK 700,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Copenhagen's NNF Center for Protein Design (CPD) seeks an experienced computational and data scientist to build research infrastructure and scalable data tools for protein design research. You will work with CPD researchers to collect, organise, analyse, and exploit data from computational designs and experiments.

Joining a multidisciplinary team, you will lead on pipelines, predictive models, and data-management practices, and contribute to grants, publications, and CPD

Qualifications

• PhD in bioinformatics, data science or a related domain, e.g. computational/structural biology.
• Excellent knowledge of scientific computing and coding languages, e.g., Python.
• Documented experience in machine learning, scientific computing, and similar.
• Active interest in protein design, engineering, and structure.
• Proven ability to work with others on challenging multidisciplinary problems.

Responsibilities

• Help establish CPD computational infrastructure and data management for researchers.
• Develop automated pipelines converting raw instrument outputs into data plots for analysis.
• Collect data and build databases of designed proteins, sequences, models, and biophysical data.
• Develop predictive models using gathered data with ML methods.
• Lead and coordinate CPD data management plans with host departments.
• Train CPD scientists in creating and analyzing large datasets and pipelines.
• Contribute to grants and publications; teach CPD Master’s/PhD courses.
• Bridge CPD computing systems with KU IT and internal data processing environments.

Skills

Computational design

Protein analysis

Data management

ML/AI for proteins

Python

Education

PhD in bioinformatics or related domain

Tools

High-performance computing

LIMS

Job description

The University of Copenhagen's NNF Center for Protein Design (CPD) seeks an experienced computational and data scientist to build research infrastructure and scalable data tools for protein design research. You will work with CPD researchers to collect, organise, analyse, and exploit data from computational designs and experiments.

Joining a multidisciplinary team, you will lead on pipelines, predictive models, and data-management practices, and contribute to grants, publications, and CPD