Postdoctoral Researcher -Computational Microbiome Science / Metagenomics-

Uniklinik RWTH Aachen • Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany • Posted June 16, 2026

Location Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia

Job Type Full-time

Category Life Scientists

Posted June 16, 2026

Tasks:
The postdoctoral researcher will lead the computational analysis and integration of metagenomic datasets from human cohorts and animal models to uncover microbiome-driven mechanisms underlying chronic pain within an international, multi-site research consortium.
PhD in Bioinformatics/Computational biology, Microbiology or Microbial Ecology (with strong emphasis on computational analysis of microbiome and sequencing data), Systems Biology, Biostatistics

Lead the analysis of shotgun metagenomic datasets from human cohorts and animal models to identify microbiome signatures associated with chronic pain

Develop, implement, and maintain reproducible bioinformatics pipelines for processing, integration, and interpretation of multi-source microbiome data

Integrate microbiome data with clinical, phenotypic, and experimental datasets to enable translational insights within the project

Coordinate and collaborate acros...

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