Senior Postdoc: Soil Microbiome Data Scientist

Earlham Institute; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The Earlham Institute in Norwich invites applications for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the High-Resolution Microbiomics group to develop computational methods for soil microbiome analysis.

The role focuses on building bioinformatics pipelines to integrate long and short read metagenomes with metatranscriptomes, exploring Bayesian/statistical models and potential machine learning approaches, with the aim of mechanistic community insights.

Qualifications

• PhD in bioinformatics, mathematics or statistics, or related subject area with a strong element of statistical modelling.
• First degree in any area of science or mathematics.
• Knowledge of command line bioinformatics, software programming in at least one language (R, Python, C/C++) and a basic understanding of statistics.

Responsibilities

• Develop computational methods to study the soil microbiome.
• Create bioinformatics pipelines to integrate long and short read metagenomes with metatranscriptomes.
• Explore novel statistical approaches to resolve strain diversity and apply probabilistic graphical models.

Skills

Command line bioinformatics

Statistical modelling

Machine learning basics

Scientific writing

Oral presentations

Education

PhD in bioinformatics/mathematics/statistics or related

First degree in science or mathematics

Tools

R

Python

C/C++

Job description

The Earlham Institute in Norwich invites applications for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the High-Resolution Microbiomics group to develop computational methods for soil microbiome analysis.

The role focuses on building bioinformatics pipelines to integrate long and short read metagenomes with metatranscriptomes, exploring Bayesian/statistical models and potential machine learning approaches, with the aim of mechanistic community insights.