Retina Neurobiologist & Data Scientist

EssilorLuxottica; Paris; On-site; EUR 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

EssilorLuxottica seeks a postdoctoral researcher to join a joint team with academics, investigating the biochemical and neural mechanisms of eye growth and myopia control. You will design experiments, collect data, and build models linking biological processes to retinal processing.

The role emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration across biochemistry, neuroscience and data analysis, with opportunities to contribute to publications and product-relevant innovations.

Qualifications

• Postdoctoral in quantitative biology, computational neuroscience, or a related discipline.
• Experience in acquiring and analysing noisy biological data.
• Programming (preferably in Python).
• Biochemistry, neuroscience, data analysis, machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Formulate biological questions underlying eye growth.
• Build a methodology including sensory inputs, neural dynamics, biochemical signalling and genetic pathways, with particular focus on visual and retinal processing.
• Develop and evaluate mechanistic, statistical and machine-learning models to test hypotheses on animal or human clinical data.
• Provide recommendations for improving myopia-control strategies.
• Define research plans, milestones and scientific deliverables; take ownership of projects.
• Prepare internal reports, conference contributions and peer-reviewed publications.

Education

Postdoctoral in quantitative biology

Job description

EssilorLuxottica seeks a postdoctoral researcher to join a joint team with academics, investigating the biochemical and neural mechanisms of eye growth and myopia control. You will design experiments, collect data, and build models linking biological processes to retinal processing.

The role emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration across biochemistry, neuroscience and data analysis, with opportunities to contribute to publications and product-relevant innovations.