Research Scientist

vor 9 Stunden


Zurich, Schweiz Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development Vollzeit

Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development_
**Research Scientist (for 18 months)**
**60 % **:The Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development is a scientific center at the University of Zurich focused on youth development. The Center is a joint venture between the University of Zurich and the Jacobs Foundation. We are dedicated to interdisciplinary, developmental research that will ultimately improve the lives of young people. Our researchers come from the fields of economics, psychology, and sociology. We also collaborate with scientists from additional disciplines in our efforts to best understand the first decades of life.

The position is part of the research project
**"Socioeconomic status and the regulation of the genome"** funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The main goal of this project is to examine how education, income, and occupation are correlated with gene expression patterns (mRNA abundance levels), as well as the mechanisms that might explain these correlations.
- Solid understanding of biological principles, metagenomics, bioinformatics terminology, and common sequence alignment programs.
- Knowledge of the statistical principles behind current best practices in high-throughput molecular data analysis.
- Familiarity in working with high-throughput omics data from populational studies.
- Working knowledge of common bioinformatic pipelines in analyzing DNA and RNA-Seq Data.
- Integration of multi-omics data in understanding biological pathways/processes driving patterns in populational data.
- Proficiency in R, Shiny, Bioconductor, Command-line.

**Your profile**:
**Requirements**:
**What we offer**:
**Research environment**:
We offer work in an interdisciplinary, international, and collegial environment located at Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, the University of Zürich. This is a 60% position for the 18-month period. In addition, some travel funds are available to attend national and international conferences or workshops.

**Place of work**: Andreasstrasse 15, Zürich, Switzerland

**Start of employment**:
**Application**:
Applications should include:
(i) a cover letter that relates the applicant's experience and interests to the project,

(ii) a comprehensive CV,

(iii) the names and contact information of at least two references, and

(iv) an R code sample (URL or attachment).

Please send the documents in
**one PDF file** to Prof. Mike Shanahan.



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