Head of Bioinformatics Core Facility

Central European Institute of Technology of the Masaryk University (CEITEC MU), Brno, Czech Republic

Brno, Czech Republic

CEITEC MU is an independent university institute that was established in 2011 at Masaryk University as part of the scientific centre of excellence CEITEC. This young and dynamic life science research centre is committed to fulfilling its mission of improving quality of life and human health. CEITEC MU values its people and is proud of the state-of-the-art scientific equipment available in its modern core facilities. CEITEC MU significantly drives high quality basic research results in the Czech Republic and competes well also in comparison with international centres. CEITEC MU provides a supportive and stimulating environment, with many opportunities to discuss and develop ideas, as well as a culture of open communication and equal opportunities. The institute is a proud holder of the HR Excellence in Research award.

About this position

CEITEC MU employs more than 500 people from over 35 countries working on more than 150 ongoing projects and publishing more than 300 scientific publications per year. Our centre attracts top EU grants and has an annual budget of nearly 32 million euros and investments that exceed 6,6 million euros. Our researchers are pushing the boundaries of current knowledge in the areas of structural biology, molecular medicine, genomics and proteomics of plant systems, and neuroscience.

We are looking for an experienced researcher to join CEITEC as the head of Core Facility Bioinformatics focusing on mainly on analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data and the development of infrastructure (pipelines, web-servers) that facilitate these analyses.

You will become a valued member of our CEITEC scientific community and work as a technology-oriented scientist and team leader alongside 28 other research group leaders and 12 core facility heads.