Postdoc Opportunities in Computational Biology in Switzerland

Maria Brbic’s lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is advertising several postdoc positions in an exciting interdisciplinary area at the intersection of AI and biology . The research themes mentioned include foundation models for single-cell biology , spatial biology , multimodal AI , and AI agents for scientific discovery . This is a strong fit for candidates with interests in computational biology, machine learning, and data-driven biological discovery. The post does not spec...

Postdoctoral Position in Bioinformatics and Plant Paleogenomics at the University of Bern , Switzerland. This two-year, fixed-term postdoctoral opening is hosted at the Institute of Plant Sciences and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research within the SNSF Consolidator grant project ARIaDNA . The project focuses on bioinformatics , plant paleogenomics , ancient DNA , paleoecology , population genetics , and vegetation modelling . ARIaDNA aims to reconstruct how key European tree species ...

Postdoc in Digital Plant Phenotyping at the University of Bern, Switzerland. The Institute of Plant Sciences, Research Section Biotic Interactions, is recruiting for an 80–100% postdoctoral position in the Plant 3D Reconstruction project. The project combines plant science , computational biology , computer vision , chemical ecology , and statistics . You will work with the Biotic Interactions Group (Prof. Matthias Erb) and the Computer Vision Group (Prof. Paolo Favaro) to grow plants, collect i...

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 (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is advertising a postdoctoral position in the Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Medicine (AIMM) Lab led by Prof. Charlotte Bunne . The position is part of an industry collaboration with Novartis and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland . The project focuses on multimodal foundation models for biological and translational research. Research directions include multimodal model development, novel pretraining objectives, tokenization, scalable architec...

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...

Incoming faculty at the University of Basel is recruiting for a new Computational Cellular Dynamics Lab in the Department of Biomedicine and the Basel Research Centre for Child Health . The lab will focus on computational biology , machine learning , single-cell genomics , spatial genomics , and generative models to study how human tissues develop, mature, regenerate, and change in disease, with a strong emphasis on child health. The research program includes questions about cell-fate decision m...