CareerPlan

Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d)

Hannover, NIEDERSACHSENFull-time2026-11-05 → 2026-11-10

Core

Develop algorithms, statistical methods, and software to automatically detect and analyze complex genetic variations in large-scale whole-genome sequencing datasets.

Role type

PhD researcher (bioinformatics/genomics)

Builds

Software tools for structural variant detection and analysis pipelines

Domain

Human genetics, genomics, bioinformatics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

algorithm design, statistical modeling, C++, Python, Linux command line, Git, high-performance computing (HPC)

Preferred skills

WGS data analysis workflows, structural variant detection, synthetic data generation

Technologies

C++, Python, Git, HPC clusters

Responsibilities

Develop algorithms for processing long-read whole-genome sequencing datasets; Design and program software tools for structural variant detection; Benchmark and validate tools using synthetic and real patient datasets; Monitor international research trends in structural variation detection; Co-author publications and present findings at conferences