offres d'emploi
Master Position in Regenerative and Developmental Biology
As part of the Master program in Biology option GENETICS, DEVELOPMENT and EVOLUTION, the Laboratory of Prof. Galliot is oering a position for an ambitious Master student starting in September 2018.
Freshwater planarians are known for their remarkable talent to regenerate a head, including a functional brain. This phenomenon is due to a high number of adult stem cells that are activated upon tissue amputation to dierentiate into all cell types and replace lost tissue. Interested candidates will be involved in an exciting research project that aims to characterize a novel regulator of planarian head regeneration. We oer an exciting and dynamic research environment and guarantee the teaching of a variety of techniques used in molecular and cell biology as well as biochemistry.
If you are interested in this position, please contact Brigitte Galliot for further details (brigitte.galliot@unige.ch).
3D Animations and Interactive Virtual Reality of Animal Development and Evolution: Position for a Computer Graphics Scientist in Switzerland
In the context of a multidisciplinary study combining mathematical modelling, physics-based numerical simulations, and biology, we offer one position for an outstanding, highly motivated, and creative computer scientist with Autodesk Maya and Unreal Engine 4 experience to produce animations, ultra-realistic interactive VR applications and educational software for teaching recently-discovered physical and biological processes generating Life’s complexity and diversity. These developments will be targeted to all levels of education and outreach, from the general public to university students to the physics-of-biology academic research community. Good written and verbal communication skills in the English language are mandatory.
Candidates must have a master’s degree in computer science and strong expertise in:
-Development and optimization of ultra-realistic VR graphics in Unreal Engine (and possibly Unity);
-3D modeling, point cloud and mesh processing, surface reconstruction, texturing and animation;
-C/C++ and GPU programming and optimization of 3D graphics rendering.
Interests and skills in artificial life, evolutionary algorithms, deep-learning, neural networks, image processing/analysis, pattern recognition and robotics are useful additional assets.
Candidates must have a master’s degree in computer science. The position is available at the level of a PhD student position or at the level of Research Scientist (requiring a PhD degree or at least 3 years of professional experience).
The University of Geneva (UNIGE) is world-renowned for its research and is among the top 1% best universities in the world. Research Scientists and PhD students are remunerated according to the standards of UNIGE, which are very generous when compared to other international programs.
Geneva is an international city occupying a privileged geographical situation with its beautiful lake and the close-by Alps.
References: A Living Mesoscopic Cellular Automaton Made of Skin Scales. Nature 544: 173-179 (2017); Bifurcation Analysis of Reaction Diffusion Systems on Arbitrary Surfaces. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (2017); Photonic Crystals Cause Active Colour Change in Chameleons. Nature Communications 6: 6368 (2015); R2OBBIE-3D, a Fast Robotic High-Resolution System for Quantitative Phenotyping of Surface Geometry and Colour-Texture. PlosOne 10(6): e0126740 (2015) ; Crocodile Head Scales Are Not Developmental Units But Emerge from Physical Cracking. Science 339, 78-81 (2013).
The position description is also available at https://www.lanevol.org/jobs
How to Apply
Candidates must send their application — in the form of a single PDF file including a brief letter of interest, a CV, as well as contact information (not support letters) of two to three persons of reference — to: Prof. Michel Milinkovitch (michel.Milinkovitch@unige.ch). The position description is also available at https://www.lanevol.org/jobs
Physics-Based Numerical Simulations of Animal Development and Evolution: Position for a Computer Scientist in Switzerland
n the context of a multidisciplinary study combining mathematical modeling and physics-based numerical simulations of biology experiments, we offer one position for an outstanding, highly motivated, and creative computer scientist to investigate the interactions between physical (mechanics, reaction-diffusion) and biological (cell signaling, proliferation) processes that generate and constrain Life’s complexity and diversity. He/she will develop high performance numerical simulations that will require strong mathematical and programming skills. In this academic research position, you will join a multidisciplinary team of physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists and biologists, and you will apply your creative talent to uncover the self-organizational processes that generate complexity during morphogenesis and evolution. Good written and verbal communication skills in the English language are mandatory. Other specific requirements are strong expertise in:
-Physics: mechanics of elastic solids and mechanics of fluids, reaction-diffusion;
-C/C++ and GPU programming, including performance optimization;
-3D reconstruction, point cloud and mesh processing, surface reconstruction.
Interests and skills in other coding languages, artificial life, evolutionary algorithms, deep-learning, neural networks, image processing/analysis, pattern recognition, cellular automata, and robotics are useful additional assets.
Candidates must have a master’s degree in computer science. The position is available at the level of a PhD student position or at the level of Research Scientist (requiring a PhD degree or at least 3 years of professional experience).
The University of Geneva (UNIGE) is world-renowned for its research and is among the top 1% best universities in the world. Research Scientists and PhD students are remunerated according to the standards of UNIGE, which are very generous when compared to other international programs.
Geneva is an international city occupying a privileged geographical situation with its beautiful lake and the close-by Alps.
References: A Living Mesoscopic Cellular Automaton Made of Skin Scales. Nature 544: 173-179 (2017); Bifurcation Analysis of Reaction Diffusion Systems on Arbitrary Surfaces. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (2017); Photonic Crystals Cause Active Colour Change in Chameleons. Nature Communications 6: 6368 (2015); R2OBBIE-3D, a Fast Robotic High-Resolution System for Quantitative Phenotyping of Surface Geometry and Colour-Texture. PlosOne 10(6): e0126740 (2015) ; Crocodile Head Scales Are Not Developmental Units But Emerge from Physical Cracking. Science 339, 78-81 (2013).
The position description is also available at https://www.lanevol.org/jobs
How to Apply
Candidates must send their application — in the form of a single PDF file including a brief letter of interest, a CV, as well as contact information (not support letters) of two to three persons of reference — to: Prof. Michel Milinkovitch (michel.Milinkovitch@unige.ch). The position description is also available at https://www.lanevol.org/jobs