[BBC] Vacancy: scientific programmer, Delft

[Dick de Ridder]

Delft University of Technology has a vacancy for a scientific programmer
(m/f) in the Delft Bioinformatics group. Please feel free to bring this
vacancy to the attention of any suitable candidate.
 
The organisation:

The faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science of
Delft University of Technology is known world wide for its high academic
quality and social relevance of its research programs. The faculty’s
excellent facilities accentuate its international position in teaching and
research. The faculty offers an interdisciplinary setting for its 500
employees, 350 PhD students and 1700 undergraduates. Together they work on a
broad range of technical innovations in the fields of sustainable energy,
telecommunications, microelectronics, embedded systems, computer
and software engineering, interactive multimedia and applied mathematics.

Within the faculty, the Computer Science Department of Mediamatics focuses
on media and knowledge processing. Four important application domains are
telecommunications, consumer electronics, industrial automation, and
life/health sciences. The department consists of three groups: Computer
Graphics, Human Computer Interaction and Information and Communication
Theory. The latter group focuses on processing, analysis, and interpretation
of multimedia, biological and biomedical data with knowledge-based signal
processing techniques, and is home to the Delft Bioinformatics group.

The Delft Bioinformatics group has a strong background in pattern
recognition/machine learning, and we apply this expertise to design
(predictive) models that contribute to novel biological insights. Recent
examples of our contributions include the discovery of 250 novel cancer
genes by analyzing and modelling insertional mutagenesis data; proposing
(combinatorial) cultivation dependent transcription factor activities based
on a decomposition of transcriptomics data; assessing gene therapy protocols
by integrating viral insertions with gene expression data; and
modelling the mechanisms that underlie chromosomal arrangement in the
nucleus. This is accomplished by closely co-operating with (among others)
biotechnologists at Delft University of Technology and molecular biologists
at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, university medical centres
in Rotterdam and Leiden, and companies such as DSM and Organon.

Job description:

The Delft Bioinformatics group is part of the Netherlands Bioinformatics
Center (NBIC, www.nbic.nl), which coordinates bioinformatics research, tool
development, service and education in the Netherlands. For the NBIC tool
development and service program, we are looking for a scientific programmer
that can take up a wide a variety of short-term bioinformatics problems
arising within the different Genomic Centers in the Netherlands
(www.ngi.nl), and in particular within the Kluyver Center for Genomics of
Industrial Fermentation (www.kluyvercentre.nl). The candidate should be
able to independently perform routine data analyses using existing
tools, and to assist researchers in the different Genomic Centers in
practical issues in the application of bioinformatics, e.g. through setting
up databases, developing (web-based) applications, etc. Furthermore, (s)he
should aid in the implementation, delivery and support of novel data
analysis algorithms developed by researchers in the Netherlands
Bioinformatics Centre. Finally, the candidate should act as an interpreter
between the biologists and bioinformaticians, by signalling opportunities
for the development and application of novel data analysis tools and setting
up collaborations to this end.
 
Job requirements:

The candidate should have a well-founded basis in statistics, computer
science and molecular biology, have excellent programming skills and should
hold a BSc or higher in Bioinformatics or Computational Biology (or Computer
Science, with a strong affinity to molecular biology and genomics). The
candidate should have experience with working in multidisciplinary teams.
(S)he should have good communication and organization skills, have a
service-oriented attitude and be an enthusiastic team player.

Conditions of employment:

This is a full-time, fixed-term position for a period of four years. The
starting salary, depending on age and experience, varies from scale 8 to 9
(€ 2.267-3.422 gross per month). TU Delft offers an attractive benefits
package, including a flexible work week, free high-speed Internet access
from home, and the option of assembling a customized compensation and
benefits package (the 'IKA'). Salary and benefits are in accordance with the
Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.

Application and information:

For more information about this position, please contact Marcel Reinders,
phone: +31 (0)15-2786424, e-mail: M.J.T.Reinders at tudelft.nl; or Dick de
Ridder, phone: +31 (0)15-2785114, e-mail: D.deRidder at tudelft.nl.

To apply, please send a CV together with a letter of application and two
references, before March 1, 2009 to: Dick de Ridder, Information &
Communication Theory Group, Faculty of EEMCS, Delft University of
Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands; or by e-mail to
D.deRidder at tudelft.nl.


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