Doctoral Researcher in Algorithmic Bioinformatics
About this role
The Algorithmic Bioinformatics Lab is recruiting a PhD student funded by TeamPerMed Center for Data-Enriched Personalised Medicine. You will work with Professor Veli Mäkinen. The general scope of the work is studying compressed data structures and applying them in the development of scalable algorithms to genome analysis tasks. More specifically, this position is devoted to studying haplotype phasing and imputation with noisy data. The noisy data is resulting from approaches to protect privacy of genomic content of individuals. The position offers collaboration opportunities with domain experts at the University of Tartu, as well as with experts in differential privacy (Assistant Professor Teresa Anna Steiner at the Univ. Southern Denmark and Professor Antti Honkela at the Univ. Helsinki) and in statistical and computational genomics (FIMM Group Leader Simone Rubinacci at the Univ. Helsinki).
A start date in early September 2026 is ideal, but it is flexible. The application deadline is June 22, 2026 (at 23:59 UTC +3).
Requirements
- A master's degree in computer science or a related topic
- Prior experience in algorithms in bioinformatics context and compressed data structures is desirable
- Excellent English skills
- In addition, according to the system of the University of Helsinki, all doctoral researchers belong to a doctoral programme. The successful candidate should apply to Doctoral Programme in Science and obtain the study right within the trial period of six months of their employment contract. Please check the admission periods and eligibility criteria at https://www.helsinki.fi/en/admissions-and-education/apply-doctoral-programmes/how-apply-doctoral-programmes.
- We offer
- The opportunity to do fundamental research
- A world class academic community that promotes diversity, international engagement and equality. We encourage all qualified applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply for our positions.
- 3-year full-time contract
- A starting salary of c