Postdoctoral Researcher in Kvantum spearhead project “Mosses, nature’s puri

at  Oulun Yliopisto

The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 3,600 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 17,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations.
We are now looking for

WHO ARE YOU?

We are looking for a researcher with strong prior experience on mutualistic plant-microbe interactions (endophytes), microbiology, molecular biology, mosses, and their manipulation. In addition, candidates experienced in omics methods such as amplicon sequencing, metagenomics or -transcriptomics, and metabolomics along with bioinformatic analysis of the corresponding data are appreciated.

The post-doc candidate:

• guides and sets an example to younger PhD students in the lab
• identifies directions for future scientific research
• holds a PhD degree in plant biology, microbiology, or other relevant field, obtained less than ten years ago

A successful candidate:

• is fluent with several advanced molecular biology methods and plant tissue culture techniques in the lab
• easily communicates in the English language in an open verbal manner
• has a team player spirit
• has an ambitious work ethic
• critically contributes to the writing of manuscripts and grant proposals
• makes efforts to obtain independent funding
• fuels internal discussions of recent publications in the field

We also appreciate

• Finnish language skills

Please refer the Job description for details