The research group Domestication Genomics investigates crop evolution and adaptation, focusing on how these processes shape genetic diversity in domesticated plants and their wild ancestors. Our research centers on temperate cereals - barley, wheat, rye, and oats - leveraging the extensive collections of these crops and their wild relatives housed in the German national genebank. A main focus of our work is the pangenomics of cultivated barley and its wild relatives. 

Your tasks:

• Assembling and analyzing diverse barley genomes.
• Connecting sequence variation to phenotypic diversity.
• Exploring the use of novel approaches to make pangenomes accessible, such as pangenome graphs.

Your qualifications and skills:

• You hold a Ph.D. degree in bioinformatics or plant science.
• You have experience in plant genetics and the integrative analysis of large-scale genomics data sets.
• You are a confident user of computational tools and are proficient in at least one programming language.

You fit to us:

• You have a strong computational background and are interested in biological questions.
• You see your future in academic research.

We offer you:

• an interdisciplinary research environment at the intersection of life sciences and informatics.
• a friendly and productive working environment.
• a project-based position starting on 01.11.2025 for 36 months according to §2 WissZeitVG
• a gross salary up to 100% E-13 TVL.

If you need further information, please feel free to contact Dr. Martin Mascher Tel.: 039482 5143 directly.

What you need to know:
For us, your qualifications and strengths count. Therefore, everyone – independent from gender, origin, age, or possible disability – is welcome. The IPK is striving to increase the proportion of womenin sectors where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages qualified women to apply. As an institution which has been awarded the Certificate for Career and Family (“berufundfamilie”), we offer family-friendly working conditions and flexible working hours. The IPK has set a goal to employ more people with disabilities. Qualified applicants with a disability will be given preference.

Your application:

We are looking forward to receive your complete online-application (letter of motivation, CV, certificates) as one single pdf-document (https://www.ipk-gatersleben.de/en/career/job-offers) until 12.06.2025. If you have questions or require more information, please do contact Kerstin Schweigert (jobs[at]ipk-gatersleben.de). Please indicate the reference number 35/05/25 in your correspondence. Please note that incomplete application documents cannot be considered. Foreign qualifications must carry out an equivalence test in Germany, which is subject to a fee. This must be presented in the event of a later hiring: https://zab.kmk.org/en/statement-comparability