ELFT HÍRADÓ

[Gergely J Szöllősi <sszolo AT gmail.com>]

Kedves Kollégák!

A közelmúltban indult Lendület pályázatom kapcsán posztdokot keresek:

A postdoctoral position is available to join the recently funded Evolutionary 
Genomics Research Group (under a highly competitive 5 year grant from the 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ “Momentum” program). 

The Evolutionary Genomics research group’s aim is to develop a coherent 
treatment of evolutionary processes at different time scales, from the 
diversification of species over hundreds of millions of years, to the decade 
long development of tumours. The successful candidate will have the 
opportunity to choose between two topics that are currently the subject of 
intense scientific interest, each aiming to extract quantitative information 
on the underlying biological processes from large genomic datasets: 1. 
reconstructing a dated tree of life from complete genomes using phylogenetic 
discord as molecular fossils and 2. to understand cancer evolution in 
hierarchically differentiating tissue using tumour genomes. 
The successful candidate will either have a background in Evolutionary 
Biology, Bioinformatics or a related field, or come from a strong 
quantitative background such as Applied Mathematics or Statistics, or 
Statistical or Biological Physics with the ambition to pursue research in 
Evolutionary Biology.

The position is for up to 5 years with a salary of up to 500,000 HUF per 
month conditional on experience (adjusting for cost of living this 
corresponds to approx. EUR 2,500 in Berlin, 2,600 in Vienna and 3,500 in 
Paris [numbeo.com] ).
The research group is lead by Dr. Gergely Szollosi ( 
https://scholar.google.hu/citations?user=sPrYT-oAAAAJ ) and actively 
collaborates with the research groups of Vincent Daubin, Nicolas Lartillot 
and Bastien Boussau (Evolutionary Genomics and Phylogeny, CNRS, Lyon France) 
as well as Eric Tannier (Bioinformatics, Computer Science, INRIA Lyon 
France), Tom Williams (Molecular evolution, phylogenetics , University of 
Bristol) and Carolin Kosiol (Bioinformatics, Vetmeduni Vienna). The 
successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with and visit for 
periods of up to several months the collaborating parties.  

The research group is hosted at Eötvös Universities Institute of Physics. The 
Institute of Physics has been included in the Excellence Group of European 
Universities, and has achieved top placement in the number of citations, the 
number of ERC grants, the time available for PhD research and the gender 
balance of master’s students in the CHE Excellence Ranking. The research 
group is associated to the Depts. of Biological Physics and Complex Systems 
composed of several interdisciplinary research groups including those of 
Prof. Imre Derényi, Prof. Tamás Vicsek, and Prof. István Csabai with 
experience in the analysis of large scale datasets, including next generation 
sequencing data. 

Please direct all enquiries to Dr. Gergely Szollosi 
(ssolo AT elte.hu).

Üdvözlettel,

Szöllősi Gergely