QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Appointment as Researcher requires academic qualifications at PhD level. The research potential of each applicant will be emphasized in the overall assessment.

WHO WE ARE

At the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience (BIO), our high-level research spans from basic to applied within both natural sciences and engineering. With approx. 150 employees, 75 PhD students, and 775 bachelor and master’s students at our campuses in Aalborg (main campus) and Esbjerg, we are a vital research and educational institution when it comes to creating new basic knowledge as well as contributing to solving the world’s challenges within biology, chemistry, biotechnology, bioengineering, environmental science, and chemical engineering.
We continuously improve our department as an attractive place of work and study. We offer flexible hours, social activities throughout the year both at the department level and in each Section. We are inclusive and have respect for individuals, communities, and cultures. Our work culture is founded on openness, curiosity, transparency, and involvement. Come join us!
Read more about the department here; Department of Chemistry and Bioscience.

The 3 year Researcher position is part of the Villum Young Investigator project grant “Restoring the Carbon Balance: Using Bacteria, Archaea and their Viruses to Assess Peatland Health and Predict Restoration Success - CArBiVoRe”. Specifically, as part of the research, you will explore virus responses to the restoration of agricultural peatland systems. This project will combine computational and experimental approaches, leveraging the large-scale Microflora Danica dataset combined with samples taken from sites undergoing restoration. You will help conduct sampling, refine and apply experimental methods such as viromics and metatranscriptomics. The data will be linked to soil and emission data to help create predictive models. Within a broader framework, your work will contribute to the development of a tool that will be able to help predict a site’s restoration success based on the DNA from 1g of soil.
The Researcher will be anchored in the Center for Microbial Communities that has approx. 50 scientists at various career levels, working with structure and function of microbial communities, primarily related to environmental microbiology and biotechnology. The Center has state of the art equipment within DNA and RNA sequencing, laboratory automation, CPU and GPU compute resources, proteomics, metabolomics, and advanced microscopy.
This position offers an excellent opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary and international research environment, collaborating with experts in microbial ecology and bioinformatics.