Head of Genomics Technology Development Team

We are Europe’s flagship research laboratory for the life sciences – an intergovernmental organisation performing scientific research in disciplines including molecular biology, physics, chemistry and computer science. We are an international, innovative and interdisciplinary laboratory with more than 1600 employees from many nations, operating across six sites, in Heidelberg (HQ), Barcelona, Hinxton near Cambridge, Hamburg, Grenoble and Rome.

Do you love cutting-edge single cell genomics? Do you have a knack for setting up new techniques and/or developing new technologies? This could be the job for you! The field of single cell genomics is moving at a very rapid and exciting pace. Many methods go beyond single cell RNA-seq to study upstream processes in the regulation of RNA production. The field is advancing to measure multiple parameters from the same single cell (multi-omics) and to study cells in their native in-situ context. The latter, spatial single cell omics, often involves imaging-based methods rather than sequencing, including highly multiplexed fluorescent in-situ (FISH) hybridisation. To help scientists stay at the forefront, the Genomics Technology Development Team will optimise and develop new single cell and spatial genomic technologies, leveraging current genomics and imaging expertise within the institute. The group will scope out new technologies and react to needs within the institute, focusing on optimising and developing technologies for use in complex tissues and embryos. Through training of students and postdocs in different labs, these methods will be transferred to research groups throughout EMBL. The head of the team will therefore bridge between research groups and EMBL core facilities.