Bioinformatician

Bioinformatician (M/F/x)
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Company_

The _Université catholique de Louvain_ is a French-speaking university present in six different locations, including Charleroi.

With a multicultural and multilingual environment, UCLouvain is open to the world and hosts students and researchers from around the world.

The university is highly ranked internationally and is a major employer in Wallonia and the Brussels region. UCLouvain operates faculties, research institutes, and administration to fulfill the three missions of teaching, research, and service to society.

e-OMIX is a new project launched at UCLouvain and aims at establishing a new bioinformatic hub for sharing and leveraging omics data (collected from different platforms quantifying cellular molecular content) across different laboratories in Brussels and Wallonia for research and clinical purposes.

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Role_

• Establish bioinformatics pipelines for preprocessing singleomics data (filtering, normalization, control of batch effect, quality control, etc.)
• Adhere to interoperability standards established by the FIHR consortium Ensure compatibility of omics data collected across different platforms and research groups by implanting HL7 FIHR standards.
• Integrate different types of omics data to favor a multiomics approach
• Conceive and automate supervised (regression, variable selection, etc.) or unsupervised (network analyses, clustering, PCA, etc.) statistical analyses.

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Qualifications_

• Master's degree in bioinformatics, statistics, computer sciences, biomedical sciences, bioengineering, or equivalent
• Experience and/or keen interest in one or several of the following:
• One or multiple omics experimental technologies, data processing analysis and/or interpretation

- interest in developing solutions for the exchange of biomedical data and in multicentric initiatives
- solid background in statistics, machine learning/artificial intelligence
- knowledge of one or more programming language (e.g., R Markdown, Python, BASH, etc.) and IDE (R, Jupyter notebooks, etc.)
- collaborative research software development (e.g., unit testing, version control, continuous integration, Git, etc.)
- experience in R/Bioconductor data structures, in particular those used for omics data analysis (e.g., _SummarizedExperiment_, _SingleCellExperiment_, _QFeatures_, etc.)
- open and reproducible research
- contribution to an open and inclusive research environment
- good written and oral communication skills, english proficiency

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We offer:_

• A collaborative work environment: The project is conjointly led by the Computational Biology (CBIO) and Computer Engineering (INGI) units from UCLouvain and will involve other major academic actors.
• The collaborator will be partly based in the A6K startup incubatorin Charleroi, and partly homebased, (with occasional travels to UCLouvain's Brussels or Louvain-LaNeuve campuses)
• Flexible workhours
• Reimbursement of travel expenses

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Application_

Benefits:

• Company computer
• Company events
• Continuing education credits
• Mileage reimbursement

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Vacation money

Langue:

• Anglais (Exigé)

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in 6000 Charleroi

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