Plant Bioinformatician and Data Scientist, Copenhagen

Are you passionate about beer and its ingredients? Do you want to impact innovation at Carlsberg and support our exploratory and commercial research activities to support the development of plant-based ingredients and raw materials? We are looking for a bioinformatician to join our New Ingredients platform at Carlsberg Research Laboratory to help us understand how characteristic aromas that hops add to beer are constituted genetically.

What you’ll be doing

You will – together with a group of international experts – work on establishing and exploiting pan-genomic resources in hops. You will closely collaborate with colleagues and external collaborators focusing on integrating genomic and metabolomic data to ensure that the pan-genome serves as an intermediate and long-term knowledge-building resource informing hop breeding and strategic research at Carlsberg and beyond.

Further, you will enable and drive commercial projects by providing both long-term strategic as well as ad hoc support to your colleagues across different project teams and research platforms.

What we’re looking for

• You have a PhD in bioinformatics or a related field and 1 - 2 years of experience as a postdoc.
• You have profound knowledge and experience in plant molecular genetics.
• You have a very good understanding of comparative genomics and have insights into genome assembly strategies.
• Experience with multiple sequencing platforms (e.g. Illumina, Ion/Proton, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore) is a plus.
• You have a great interest in plant biology.
• You are confident in communicating your research both among peers and with non-experts. Further, you have a proven track record in scientific writing.
• You have high academic standards, and you are prepared to continue living up to those while you are at the same time committed to a permanent transition to industry.
• You are a well-organized, structured, and thorough person ready to work on several tasks simultaneously, who respects timelines and likes to work in a team.
• Last, but not least, you are a self-driven individual, eager to expand your knowledge and to contribute with your ideas and initiatives.

What you can expect

We offer a 3-year time-limited position at a workplace with great minds from all around the world as your close colleagues in a research laboratory covering all areas of beer brewing under one roof and that has a long-standing history in applied science. Here your research will not only build knowledge but will be put into practice by a cross-functional team on the spot.

In Copenhagen, you will join an international, cross-functional team with expertise in biotechnology, bioinformatics, plant breeding and hop analytics. Furthermore, your research will be embedded into an international network of scientific collaboration.

Interested?

For further information about the role, please contact Senior Scientist at ilka.braumann@carlsberg.com. The deadline for applying is October 25th. We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled sooner than the deadline, therefore we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. We only receive applications via our applicant system, so please apply using the link.

We look forward to reading your application.

Carlsberg Group: Brewing for a better today and tomorrow

For us success has always been in the diverse mix of our people, our beers and our brands. At Carlsberg, we want to recruit and develop people with a global mindset, cultural understanding, and international experience to ensure that our organization stays agile, inclusive and prepared for future growth. Only by acknowledging and harvesting from different perspectives and experiences, will we gain competitive advantage and leverage the effect of diversity for business growth. Carlsberg aims to create equal access to opportunity regardless of social identity, and we encourage everyone to apply regardless of gender, nationality, race, religion or any other characteristics protected by law.