Academic Employee to support experimental animal research

at  Aarhus Universitet

The Center for Immunology of Viral infections (CiViA) at the Department of Biomedicine, Health, Aarhus University, invites applications for a position as academic employee to support the area of animal research as per 1 June 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is a permanent full-time position.
We offer a vibrant and stimulating international research environment, and a friendly and welcoming atmosphere within the group and the wider Department.

You will contribute to the center by supporting researchers in research projects focusing on immune responses to viral infections in mice. You will be involved in projects from different laboratories within CiViA. You will join a multi-disciplinary research team working on understanding the mechanisms driving viral disease and the effects of different interventions. Your tasks will be to support various laboratory analyses (mainly qPCR and histology), supporting experimental animal studies, data handling and analyses. You will be expected to contribute to and support the ongoing research projects in CiViA on an ad hoc basis and to support the lab management.

Your main tasks will be supporting researchers in the researchers’ following tasks:

• Prepare and participate in research projects for the core facility.
• Communicate and report laboratory results in a professional manner.
• Conduct routine and standardized experiments, using advanced research techniques specific to subject matter of the research project.
• Developing and characterizing new virus infection methods.
• Test virus infection in different gene-modified animals or with pharmaceutical reagents.
• Some degree of weekend work will be required (only few hours/weekend-day).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

You will report to Professor Søren Riis Paludan and Associate Professor Line Reinert. In your daily work, you will work under the supervision of Associate Professor Line Reinert and in close collaboration with senior academic staff in the laboratory.