Bioinformatician

**Bioinformatician (M/F/x)**
- **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.
- **Role**_
- Establish bioinformatics pipelines for preprocessing single-omics 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.
- **Qualifications**_
- Master’s degree in bioinformatics, statistics, computer sciences, biomedical sciences, bio-engineering, 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
- **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 home-based, (with occasional travels to UCLouvain’s Brussels or Louvain-La-Neuve campuses)
- Flexible workhours
- Reimbursement of travel expenses
- **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