Professor in Bioinformatics at the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway

The University of Bergen (UiB) is situated in the centre of the city of Bergen. The university has about 14.300 students and about 3.300 faculty and staff members. The UiB is known for its high European research standard and houses a number of centres of excellence. We have a strong international profile and cooperate closely with other universities all over the world.

Professor in Bioinformatics at the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway

The professorship at the Department of Informatics is open for candidates with competence and research interests across all fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. The bioinformatics group at the Department of Informatics consists of three professors (including this vacant position), post-docs, and PhD-students and is integrated with the Computational Biology Unit (CBU), consisting of in total of 8 groups and 35 people. The group has access to excellent computational infrastructure including a local Cray XT4 with 1388 quad-core processors and 6064 GB of memory (soon to be upgraded) and is co-located with Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology, and the Sars International Centre for marine molecular biology.

For more information, contact head of CBU Professor Inge Jonassen (Inge.Jonassen@ii.uib.no) or Head of Department of Informatics Professor Petter Bjørstad (Petter.Bjorstad@ii.uib.no).

A full description of the position and application procedures can be found at

http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=78730&translateid=2

Application deadline: December 22nd, 2011.