Laboratory Technician on project in Translational Neuroscience

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. The University was founded in 2003 and counts more than 6,700 students and more than 2,000 employees from around the world. The University’s faculties and interdisciplinary centres ;focus on research in the areas of Computer Science and ICT Security, Materials Science, European and International Law, Finance and Financial Innovation, Education, Contemporary and Digital History. In addition, the University focuses on cross-disciplinary research in the areas of Data Modelling and Simulation as well as Health and System Biomedicine. Times Higher Education ranks the University of Luxembourg #3 worldwide for its “international outlook,” #20 in the Young University Ranking 2021 and among the top 250 universities worldwide.

Within the University, the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is a highly interdisciplinary researchcentre (IC), integrating experimental biology and computational biology approaches in order to develop the foundation of a future predictive, preventive and personalized medicine.

The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg is a highly dynamic, multilingual and international working environment at campus Belval. The Translational Neuroscience Group, led by Prof Rejko Krüger, creates a translational bridge between fundamental and the clinic with a focus on Parkinson’s disease research, with the aim to improve diagnosis and therapy to help patients in Luxembourg and beyond. We are currently looking for an energetic, highly motivated Laboratory Technician for working on collaborative fundamental biology research projects in Parkinson’s disease (PD). In particular, this position is supported by an FNR research grant to Dr. Giuseppe Arena, aimed at characterizing the link between PD and Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), in order to identify shared dysregulated pathways (e.g. mitochondrial dysfunction, metabolic alterations) between the two diseases.