Postdoc in Digital Plant Phenotyping and Computational Biology University of Bern in Switzerland

Two PostDoc positions are open at the University of Bern, Switzerland , in the Professor Matthias Erb Group . These opportunities are connected to two research directions: Climate-Resilient Companion Cropping (together with the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research) and Digital Plant Phenotyping (together with the Computer Vision Group of Prof. Paolo Favaro). The positions sit at the intersection of Plant Science , Biology , Agriculture , Environmental Science , Computer Science , Agroecol...

EPFL’s AIMM Lab is hiring a PostDoc in collaboration with Novartis for research at the intersection of computer science , biology , and early drug discovery . The project focuses on developing multimodal foundation models for biology , including new model architectures, large-scale pretraining, and agentic interfaces . The role is especially relevant for researchers with strong experience in large-scale AI development and a solid biological background . Successful candidates will work closely wi...

PhD Student Position at the University of Neuchâtel (UNINE), Switzerland , in the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics with Prof. Daniel Croll . The project focuses on evolutionary genomics and fungal biology , with research directions including: genomic basis of rapid adaptation to host plants, climate and agrochemicals; tracking transposable element expansion dynamics; causes and consequences of fungal genome plasticity; and recapitulating evolutionary processes using DNA language models / LLMs...

Agroscope is advertising a postdoctoral researcher position in metabolites of pesticides in groundwater at its Wädenswil workplace in Switzerland . The project focuses on processing monitoring data on pesticide metabolites in groundwater, combining these data with approved application rates and sales figures for the relevant active ingredients, and compiling Predicted Environmental Concentrations (PEC) for metabolites detected in monitoring. The role also includes characterizing land use in grou...

PhD position at the University of Basel, Switzerland, in generative modeling for human development and disease . The project focuses on computational biology and bioinformatics methods for single-cell genomics and spatial genomics data from sequencing and imaging. Research directions include: cell–cell communication modeling beyond ligand–receptor analysis; joint models of regulation and dynamics using flow-based and diffusion-based approaches; and intervention design plus continual learning for...