💼 Full-Time Position

Doctoral student in Genomics

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Animal Genomics Group
📍 zürich, zurich, Switzerland
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Location
zürich, Switzerland
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Posted
June 11, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Job description

We are looking for a doctoral student that is eager to work on cutting-edge research questions that involve the analysis of third generation sequencing data. You will develop computational workflows to analyse (ultra) long sequencing data in order to identify trait-associated sequence variants. You will contribute to the generation of reference-quality genome assemblies and bovine pangenomes, and develop new approaches to analyse these data.

Active participation in international conferences is very much supported.

This is a fully funded position for 4 years with an anticipated start date of October 1st, (negotiable).

Further project details will be discussed further in the interview.

Profile

You have a MSc degree or are about to finish your MSc studies in a discipline relevant for the position. You are interested in applying computational genomics ...