Beca Predoctoral en Tarragona

Vía Noticias UGR:

The Sipomics research group (Signal Processing for OMIC Sciences) and the Metabolomics Platform from the Rovira iVirgili University is seeking candidates to apply for a 4-year scholarship to obtain the PhD at our research facilities located in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain).

The main research field related to the scholarship is bioinformatics: The goal is to develop algorithms to convert raw data coming from state-of-the-art instruments into meaningful clinical information. Most of the work will be centred in 2D data processing such as baselining, deconvolution, alignment and chemometrics of 2D data from different mass spectrometry instruments (such as GCxGC-TOF and MALDI-TOF-TOF) for metabolomics applications.

Candidates need to hold a bachelor degree or/and a master degree to be eligible for the position. The ideal candidate should have, at least a computer programming, telecommunications engineering, chemical or physics background. A solid background, knowledge and/or experience in programming is a must. Programming will be mostly done in either R or matlab and therefore experience on these programming platforms will be taken into account. English should also be spoken fluently.

We offer a 2 year Scholarship plus a 2 year contract to perform the research work that would lead the candidates to obtain their Ph.D. degree in our doctorate program at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Rovira i Virgili University. Moreover, if the candidate lacks a master degree, the scholarship will also allow and require them to obtain their Master degree on Electronic Engineering at our department (). In all, the scholarship duration is 4 years.

Candidates should send their CV to Dr. Serena Pujol no later than September 25th. A letter of research interest and intentions would be greatly appreciated as well as recommendation letters from tutors or mentors if available.