Job offer
03/24
The Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig offers an open position for a
The position has a salary level up to TV-L 13 according to the qualification. It is offered as full-time position (39.8 hours per week) and is limited to 3 years. The job is located in Braunschweig (Germany) and is not suitable for fully remote work.
Within the EU project Bioindustry 4.0 (https://bioindustry4.hub.inrae.fr/) innovative approaches for accessing, mobilizing, and integrating microbial data are developed. BacDive and MIRRI-IS are the largest microbiological strain databases worldwide and join forces to create a new strain discovery database for assembling data in a new common format. The major aim is to provide access to information required for improving biotechnological processes and thereby to create novel opportunities for bioeconomy.
Your Tasks:
You will apply your experience in Natural Language Processing to make microbial strain data available for the strain discovery database. You will use text mining approaches and NLP to process scientific publications for intelligent information retrieval. As a member of a dynamic team, you will build an annotation platform. Your work will help annotators to capture data sets faster and in a more targeted manner, thus forming an important foundation for the large-scale integration of so far inaccessible research data. You will also use the experience gained in this project in other projects and in knowledge transfer within the institute.
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The DSMZ is funded by the State of Lower Saxony and the German Federal government and is a member of the Leibniz Association. The DSMZ strives to increase the proportion of female scientists and encourages female candidates to apply. Disabled applicants with identical technical and personal qualifications will be preferentially selected. In the case of degrees obtained abroad, proof of equivalence with a German degree must be enclosed. For further information, please refer to the website of the Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB).
The DSMZ is an equal opportunity employer, supports balanced work-life career development, and holds the certificate of the audit berufundfamilie®.
For further information please contact Lorenz Reimer (lorenz.reimer@dsmz.de). Please send your complete application documents including a CV, motivation letter, copies of certificates, possible references with application number 03/24 as a single pdf file to bewerbung@dsmz.de (max 10 MB). Applications are welcome in English or German and will be accepted on a rolling basis so early applicants are encouraged! The deadline for this application is March 1st, 2024, but we may continue to review applications until the position is filled.
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