Technical administrative person in Experimental Neuroscience

The Department of Biomedicine at Faculty of Health at Aarhus University invites applications for a position as an academic technical administrator/lab coordinator in Experimental Neuroscience as per 1 June 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is a permanent position.

The department of Biomedicine prioritizes diversity and a good work environment, as this is a prerequisite for groundbreaking research. In a diverse and international research environment, dedicated employees are looking to generate new knowledge within biomedical research areas such as infection and inflammation, membranes, neuroscience and personalized medicine. The Department of Biomedicine provides research-based teaching of the highest quality and is responsible for a large part of the medical degree programme. Academic staff contribute to the teaching. English is the preferred language in the laboratory, at meetings and at seminars. The department employs approx. 500 people from all over the world, and they make use of the department's modern laboratory-, core- and animal facilities. The Department of Biomedicine focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration with business and industry, and numerous researchers from the department have established companies to develop new medicinal treatments founded in professional scientific basic research.

You can read more about the department here and about the faculty here .

As academic technical administrator/lab manager, your primary tasks are organizational and administrative work to support scientists in their research, aimed at elucidating novel genes causing Alzheimer disease. In your job, you will perform highly qualified tasks that require relevant training and extensive experience. You will have independent responsibility for organization of your assignments as well as for quality assurance and reporting.

Your main tasks will consist of:

• managing project budgets, including oversight of spending for equipment, supplies and tracking costs to be aligned with long-term budget planning (experience in online programs, such as  Indfak and Rejsud);
• maintaining a safe and productive work environment that complies with all relevant local and state regulations on, e.g., handling of biohazardous materials, genetically modified organisms, as well as chemical risk assessment and KIROS; supervision of a group of laboratory assistants;
• monitoring of lab supplies, maintenance of high-end laboratory equipment, and performing inventory counts;
• oversight of large breeding colony of transgenic mouse models (including supervision of animal caretakers, provision of animal for experimentation, control of genotypes, monitoring of animal health, filing of breeding records) and guidance of students and postdocs carrying out animal experimentation;
• filing of applications for animal experimentation protocols to the regulatory authorities and yearly reporting of animals used in experimentation to the authorities

You will report to Professor. Thomas Willnow.

You have an academic background in biomedical research with an emphasis on neuroscience (MSc) as well as experiences in managerial tasks (minimum of 4 years). You can document profound expertise in experimental neuroscience research using molecular, biochemical, and cell biological approaches. Importantly, you have extensively worked with transgenic rodent models for neuroscience research purpose and you are competent in instructing und supervising laboratory technologists and researchers in such methods. You are knowledgeable in the use and maintenance of high-end equipment (

multiplex ELISA, Taqman, confocal microscopes), and you have managerial skills in organizing laboratory work flow processes. Preferably, you also have hands-on expertise in human and mouse stem cell-derived models in experimental neuroscience, such as iPSC-derived brain cell types and cerebral organoids.

As a person, you have good interpersonal skills, are inclusive and team-oriented and able to contribute to a good work environment.

We expect you to be fluent in oral and written English.

If you have any questions about the position, please contact Prof. Thomas Willnow, [email protected], phone: (+49) (0) 160 97705304 or Jeannette Madsen, [email protected], phone: 4531157015

We prefer contact by email.

Your place of work will be the Department of Biomedicine, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 10, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.

We expect to conduct interviews in April 2024.