Research support technician in Cell Biology/Molecular Biology

at  Universit du Luxembourg

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.
The Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) contributes multidisciplinary expertise in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Life Sciences and Medicine. Through its dual mission of teaching and research, the FSTM seeks to generate and disseminate knowledge and train new generations of responsible citizens, in order to better understand, explain and advance society and environment we live in.
The Signal Transduction Research Group in the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine (Prof. Dr. Stephanie Kreis), part of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM), is currently looking for a research support technician for 12 months.

The selected candidate will support ongoing research projects centered around cell biology, molecular biology with a focus on calcium signalling in melanoma cancer cells.
Skills in handling cancer cells and knowledge and expertise in standard molecular biological methods such as tissue culture, qPCR, western blots, proliferation assays, imaging, immunofluorescence, FACS, etc. are necessary. The candidate will be part of research team focusing on calcium signalling in melanoma cells, embedded in the Signal Transduction group. The candidate must be proficient in English (working language in the research group).