PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Bioinformatics in Belgium

Postdoctoral Position in Computational Neurobiology and Dementia Research The VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology in Antwerp, Belgium, invites applications for a postdoctoral scientist to join the Computational Neurobiology Lab. The project sits at the intersection of computational biology, systems biology, genetics and neuroscience, with a focus on regulatory mechanisms underlying cell-type-specific switching of alternative gene isoforms in dementia. The research will investigate altern...

KU Leuven is offering a postdoctoral position in plant systems biology for research on climate change resilience and disease resistance within the Division of Crop Biotechnics (Department of Biosystems). The position is hosted by the labs of Prof. Devang Mehta and Prof. Hervé Vanderschuren , who work in experimental plant systems biology and tropical plant biotechnology. The project environment includes access to long-read sequencing, proteomics mass spectrometry, and the Leuven Institute for Si...

VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology in Leuven, Belgium is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in computational genomics , bioinformatics , and high-throughput genome editing . The project focuses on how synonymous mutations can influence gene expression and cellular phenotypes, using large-scale synonymous saturation mutagenesis libraries and multiple reporter readouts. The lab develops high-throughput CRISPR technologies, including MAGESTIC , to engineer thousands of defined mutations in par...

KU Leuven is advertising a full-time PhD position in AI and multimodal digital liver pathology at the Department of Imaging & Pathology, Faculty of Medicine , based in Leuven, Belgium . The project sits in the Govaere Research Group and is closely linked with pathology, hepatology, oncology, radiology, molecular biology, and biomedical AI. The work is supervised by Prof. Olivier Govaere , with collaboration from Prof. Jeroen Dekervel and co-supervision by Prof. Asier Antoranz . The research focu...

Doctoral Candidate / PhD Position in the SPACE-MEL MSCA Doctoral Network (DC11) Aspect Analytics NV is recruiting a fully funded Doctoral Candidate for a 36-month industrial PhD in the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network SPACE-MEL . The project is based in Belgium and leads to enrolment in a doctoral programme at KU Leuven . The research is centred on computational modelling of cellular neighbourhoods in spatial multi-omics , with melanoma as the main disease context. The DC11...

This fully funded PhD position at the VIB–VUB Center for Structural Biology, co-affiliated with the VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology, offers an exciting opportunity to develop advanced AI-driven methods for protein design. The research focuses on explicitly accounting for protein–lipid and protein–membrane interactions, enabling the design of synthetic membrane proteins and nanopores with sophisticated functionalities such as selective transport, sensing, and signal transduction. The la...

The Zandawala Lab at KU Leuven is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to investigate the neuromodulation of feeding in Drosophila melanogaster and other arthropods. The lab focuses on the diverse roles of neuropeptides in controlling essential physiological processes such as feeding, metabolism, sleep, stress, reproduction, development, and locomotion. Utilizing a range of advanced techniques—including molecular and anatomical methods, CRISPR/Cas9, Drosophila genetics, behavioral analyses, optogen...