Job board March 2026
PhD, postdoc and other academic job opportunities
Group leader/Professorship positions
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) for Computational Immunology
The future Assistant Professor will bring unique, multidisciplinary expertise in computational immunology, contributing to the development of cutting-edge tools, models, and strategies to understand and engineer immune systems for translational medicine.
- Institution(s): ETH Zurich (CHE)
- Level of qualifications required: Excellent publication track record in computational immunology or related fields
- Deadline to apply: 15 April 2026
Junior group leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
The Paris Brain Institute seeks to recruit Junior Group Leaders in the fields of AI, data science and computational sciences to address key challenges in brain health and neuroscience.
- Institution(s): Paris Brain Institute (FRA)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD
- Deadline to apply: 26 April 2026
Postdoc positions
Computational/AI Scientist
The team of Prof. Abhishek D Garg (Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven) is seeking a suitable postdoctoral-level candidate with specialization in computational biology with emphasis on AI-guided antibody design and/or protein modelling.
- Institution(s): KU Leuven (BEL)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD in Computational biology, Chemi-informatics, AI-guided antibody design, Insilico drug discovery, In silico protein modelling or similar
- Other information: Strong knowledge of different machine learning architectures and training techniques is essential
- Deadline to apply: 13 April 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher in Confidential High Performance Computing for AI in Cancer Care (100%)
The High Performance Computing (HPC) research group (Prof. Florina M. Ciorba), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher funded by the SNF Bridge Discovery project “Family Gene Toolkit (FGT)”
- Institution(s): University of Basel (CHE)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD in Computer Science / AI / Machine Learning
- Other information: Starting in September 2026 (flexible)
- Deadline to apply: 24 April 2026
Postdoctoral fellow in Computational Biology
The College of Computing at Mohamed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Benguerir, Morocco is seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Research position with a research focus in Computational Biology.
- Institution(s): Mohamed VI Polytechnic University (MAR)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD in the field of Computational Biology, or related fields
- Other information: Required to have a sound computational background, especially in the area of simulations
- Deadline to apply: Open until positions are filled
Postdoc in Computational Biology and Machine Learning
The selected candidate will be part of an European consortium of clinicians, biologists and computational scientists that aims to personalize high-dose glucocorticoid therapy in children with acute immune-mediated diseases by comparing treatment regimens and identifying multi-omics biomarkers that predict individual treatment response and toxicity.
- Institution(s): University of Luxembourg (LUX)
- Level of qualifications required: Ph.D. degree in computational biology, bioinformatics, biology, computer science or related disciplines
- Other information: Must have strong computational skills, including machine learning – demonstrable project in a relevant field
- Deadline to apply: Open until positions are filled
Researcher in integration of multi-omics data
The GarMiglio Lab is looking for talented researchers to develop computational pipelines to integrate multi-omics data aimed to dissect the molecular mechanisms of cancer progression, metastasis, and resistance to therapy in solid tumor.
- Institution(s): Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix, Arizona (USA)
- Level of qualifications required: Master’s or PhD (optional) in Engineering, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field
- Deadline to apply: Open until positions are filled
PhD positions
PhD in Personalized hemodynamic modelling of carotid artery stenosis for stroke prediction
As a doctoral candidate (DC), you will be embedded in the Cardiovascular Biomechanics group, led by Prof. Huberts, which focuses on computational and experimental biomechanical analysis of the cardiovascular system and its application to clinical diagnosis, prognosis, and intervention.
- Institution(s): Eindhoven University of Technology (NED)
- Level of qualifications required: MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or any other relevant program.
- Other information: Have theoretical and applied knowledge or interest in biomechanical and numerical modelling, and preferably also AI.
- Deadline to apply: 13 April 2026
18 PhD positions in the ThromboRisk MSCA Doctoral Network
ThromboRisk is built on the vision of developing multi-level thrombosis risk prediction models, from cellular dynamics to organ-level hemodynamics. The network integrates in silico, in vitro, and in vivo approaches to understand, predict, and ultimately treat thrombotic diseases.
- Institution(s): Multiple (EU)
- Level of qualifications required: Hold a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field
- Other information: Meet the MSCA mobility rule: not resided/worked in the host country >12 months in the 36 months immediately before their recruitment date.
- Deadline to apply: 26 April 2026
PhD on Computational growth and remodeling of cartilage microtissues
This PhD project aims to develop a computational growth and remodeling (G&R) framework to investigate how cartilage microtissue growth dynamics, matrix composition, and (anisotropic) matrix architecture are influenced by the mechanical and geometric properties of their environment.
- Institution(s): Eindhoven University of Technology (NED)
- Level of qualifications required: MSc degree (or equivalent) in Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related engineering/scientific fields
- Other information: Experience with homogenized constrained-mixture models or other tissue growth models, and experience with mechanical characterization of biological materials is a plus
- Deadline to apply: 30 April 2026
Doctoral student in Computational Genomics
This highly interdisciplinary project focuses on studying genetic variation in noncoding regions of the human genome by leveraging evolutionary information and developing models that predict the effects of variants.
- Institution(s): Chalmers University of Technology (SWE)
- Level of qualifications required: MSc
- Other information: Demonstrated experience in one of the following areas, with a willingness to learn one another: (1) genome sequences and omics data, (2) deep learning, and (3) compressed data structures for strings.
- Deadline to apply: 1 May 2026
Doctoral researcher in clinical data science & machine learning
Successful candidate will join the Clinical and Translational Informatics, led by Dr. Venkata Satagopam, which focuses on bridging translational medicine and bioinformatics through innovative data integration, visualisation, and advanced analytics.
- Institution(s): University of Luxembourgh (LUX)
- Level of qualifications required: MSc in computer science, computational biology, bioinformatics, data science, or related fields
- Other information: Experience with programming skills in Python and with machine learning and NLP frameworks e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, MONAI
- Deadline to apply: Open until positions are filled
Doctoral Researcher in AI & Bioinformatics
The candidate will conduct integrative analyses of biomedical datasets, focusing on single-cell omics and clinical data to predict clinical outcomes of interest and therapeutics.
- Institution(s): University of Luxembourgh (LUX)
- Level of qualifications required: MSc or equivalent degree in biostatistics, bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning, or related subject areas
- Other information: Prior experience in large-scale data processing and statistics / machine learning is required
- Deadline to apply: Open until positions are filled
Doctoral researcher in AI / Machine Learning Biomedical Imaging
The PhD project will focus on translating and enhancing cutting-edge algorithms from AI research into concrete applications in biomedical imaging, with current emphasis on neurodegenerative diseases.
- Institution(s): University of Luxembourgh (LUX)
- Level of qualifications required: Master’s degree in computer science or related discipline
- Other information: Strong interest in image analysis / computer vision and pattern recognition, including but not limited to biomedical applications
- Deadline to apply: Open until positions are filled
