Postdoc Level a in Bioinformatics: Innovating Computational Tools for The Cell Data Universe

**(Level A) $78,544 to $105,611 per annum plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.**

**Fixed term, full time position available for 24 months.**

The Mangiola Group at SAiGENCI, seeks a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow to lead the development of advanced bioinformatic tools and methods for analysing and harmonising large-scale single-cell and spatial cell data. This position offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of computational approaches in precision oncology by driving innovation in data science.

**About the Position**

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Designing and implementing novel bioinformatic tools and interfaces, primarily in R with extensions in Python, to handle the challenges of multiomic data integration.
- Developing and expanding tidyomics (Hutchison et al., 2024), a modular software ecosystem for data manipulation and analysis, ensuring it meets the needs of complex datasets in biomedical research.
- Creating and optimising pipelines to support harmonisation, scalability, and computational efficiency for analysing the cell data universe.
- Incorporating cutting-edge methods, including aspects of artificial intelligence, to complement bioinformatic tools.

**To be successful you will need**:

- PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrable experience in analysing large-scale single-cell genomic data.
- Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in computational biology and data science, such as R and possibly Python, with the ability to handle complex data analysis tasks. Please provide publicly available examples.
- A strong record of research, evidenced by publications in peer-reviewed journals or presentations at significant conferences, particularly in areas related to bioinformatics, computational biology, bioinformatics, or immunogenomics.

**Desirable**:

- Familiarity with R tidyverse
- Extensive experience in handling, processing, and interpreting large-scale biological datasets, including single-cell RNA-Seq data.
- Experience in training foundational models of cell biology
- Familiarity with immunogenomics, including the understanding of immune cell types, pathways, and mechanisms, especially in the context of cancer.

**The path to Adelaide University**

We are on an exciting path to Adelaide University as we prepare to open our doors in January 2026. Adelaide University will combine the strengths of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia, and we are dedicated to creating an accessible and future-focused educational powerhouse that fosters economic and social wellbeing through ground-breaking research and innovative teaching. You can learn more about Adelaide University HERE and more information will be provided throughout the recruitment process.

**Enjoy an outstanding career environment**

We offer a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaboration - offers you vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.

It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. Our work's cutting-edge nature - not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour - provides a constant source of inspiration.

Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high-quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities.

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/jobs

**Your faculty's broader role**

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences contains one of Australia's largest concentrations of leading health researchers, teachers and clinical titleholders. It's comprised of eight schools and a number of specialist disciplines, institutes and centres, variously focused on world-class research, and training the next generation of: medical doctors; surgeons; dentists; nurses; psychiatrists; psychologists; and other health professionals.

Learn more at: health.adelaide.edu.au

If you have the talent, we'll give you the opportunity. Together, let's make history.

Applications close 11:55pm, 27 February 2025.

**For further information**

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