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Postdoctoral Researcher -Computational Microbiome Science / Metagenomics-

Uniklinik RWTH Aachen

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Full-time June 13, 2026
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Opportunity Description

Tasks:

The postdoctoral researcher will lead the computational analysis and integration of metagenomic datasets from human cohorts and animal models to uncover microbiome-driven mechanisms underlying chronic pain within an international, multi-site research consortium.

  • PhD in Bioinformatics/Computational biology, Microbiology or Microbial Ecology (with strong emphasis on computational analysis of microbiome and sequencing data), Systems Biology, Biostatistics

  • Lead the analysis of shotgun metagenomic datasets from human cohorts and animal models to identify microbiome signatures associated with chronic pain

  • Develop, implement, and maintain reproducible bioinformatics pipelines for processing, integration, and interpretation of multi-source microbiome data

  • Integrate microbiome data with clinical, phenotypic, and experimental datasets to enable translational insights within the project

  • Coordinate and collaborate acros...
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