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**Tasks and responsibilities** - Implementation of analyses for (Nanopore) long read sequencing. - Further development and implementation of the genomics cloud platform using Nextflow or (WDL, Cromwel), REST and large-scale computational infrastructures. - Support data resources used for clinical data analysis. - Deployment of analysis pipelines to cloud...

Within our team, we currently have an opening for a computational biologist with a MSc in Life Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent. We offer a multidisciplinary research atmosphere, which combines bioinformatics, functional genomics, and stem cell biology. **The project** As a bioinformatician in our group, your key...

PhD position within ERC-funded project RESPIRE to study intersectional power dynamics and socio-environmental in/justice through planetary breathing and suffocation. **Your job**: The PhD position is a part of a research project RESPIRE: Planetary Breathing in Asphyxiating Times lead by Dr. Magdalena Górska and funded by the European Research Council. Your...

The Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology is an integrated hospital and research institute, which combines healthcare, research and education on pediatric cancer, in a single location in Utrecht. Our institute aims to provide the highest level of care for all children with cancer, with optimal quality of life. Combined with leading scientific...

Postdoctoral artistic research position in ERC project RESPIRE to study intersectional power dynamics and socio-environmental in/justice through planetary breathing and suffocation. **Your job**: The Postdoctoral position is for an artistic researcher whose artistic practice focuses on non-representationalist, performative, and norm-challenging approaches...

Are you interested in how social collectives and political communities are brought together by firearms? Are you particularly interested in how these communities (re)produce power structures through their everyday practices? Would you like to experiment with multisensorial methods? Do you have a background in cultural anthropology or a related discipline and...

Are you passionate about fair and robust Natural Language Processing (NLP), data, and computational social science/sociolinguistics? Join our new ambitious DataDivers project funded by an ERC Starting grant and help us make NLP models more fair and robust. **Your job**: The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the availability of massive datasets have...

In the context of the European project RENvolveIT, the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development is looking for a postdoctoral researcher for a fully funded three-years position. You will work with Dr Luis Ramirez Camargo of the Energy & Resources group and with other project partners at institutions in Austria, Germany and Czech Republic. **Your...

In the context of the European project RENvolveIT, the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development is looking for a postdoctoral researcher for a fully funded three-years position. You will work with Dr Luis Ramirez Camargo of the Energy & Resources group and with other project partners at institutions in Austria, Germany and Czech Republic. **Your...

Methane emissions are a key driver of global temperature rise, contributing 0.3-0.8°C since pre-industrial times. Reducing these emissions is essential for mitigating climate change. Join the EU-funded Investigating Methane for Climate Action (IM4CA) project to pioneer field-based methane measurements using mobile platforms, driving innovation in emission...

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Utrecht University has an opening for a postdoctoral research project. The vacancy is temporary, for a fixed period of 12 months and is funded the Dutch health services research funder (ZonMw). **Your job**: Vaccines are a very effective way to prevent the spread of infections. However, citizens may decide...

Are you passionate about advancing our understanding of methane's role in climate change? Join us as a postdoctoral researcher to conduct cutting-edge research on stable and clumped methane isotopes as part of the EU-funded Investigating Methane for Climate Action (IM4CA) project. **Your job**: Methane emissions from various sources to the atmosphere carry...

The Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology is a research hospital concentrating healthcare, research, and education of pediatric cancer in a single location in Utrecht. The institute aims to provide the highest level of care for all children with cancer and has the ambition to cure all children of cancer and improve quality of life. The center brings...

With the pressing need to reduce the use of synthetic fertilizers, this PhD project explores the microbial interplay between sulfur and nitrogen metabolism in crops like soybean. By utilising advanced metagenomics, transcriptomics, and elemental analysis, the project aims to identify plant-microbe regulatory networks that enhance crop nutrition and...

Join our research efforts to understand competitive interactions in tissues. This process, which is in origin crucial for the development of tissues, can be used by tumours to boost their growth potential. We want to understand how this is regulated in space and time. The PhD position is a part of a research project CELL-FIT: Spatial and temporal regulation...

The Department of Education offers a two-year postdoc position in the area of Educational Sciences / Educational Psychology / (Applied) Cognitive Psychology. This postdoc position is part of the NRO-funded project DOUBT IT: Diagnostic Opportunities to Understand Biased Thinking and Improve Training of critical thinking skills in higher education. This...

The Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science: Youth Studies has a job opening for a two-year fulltime postdoc position. In this position you will be part of the IMPROVA project and contribute to strengthening adolescent mental health. **Your job**: In the position of postdoc, you are responsible for aligning research activities within the project and...

There is an opening for a fully-funded PhD position in the AttentionLab of Stefan Van der Stigchel, professor in cognitive psychology at Utrecht University and principal investigator of the NWO VICI project ‘EyeMdifferent’. **Wat ga je doen?**: Your work will include 10% teaching tasks, such as the supervision of Bachelor’s and Master’s theses and...

Dive into data diversity to make Natural Language Processing (NLP) models more fair and robust!Are you passionate about fair and robust Natural Language Processing (NLP), data, and computational social science/sociolinguistics? Join our new ambitious DataDivers project funded by an ERC Starting grant and help us make NLP models more fair and robust.Your...

The Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology, Europe’s largest pediatric comprehensive cancer center, is seeking a highly skilled Post-Award Grant Officer to oversee and manage awarded grants, ensuring the efficient execution of funded projects in alignment with funding agency regulations and organizational goals. Our ambition is to be one of the...