IBSE offers post-doctoral fellowships to exceptional doctorates, who are desirous of pursuing a 1-2 year research to initiate long-term research goals at the interface of biology and engineering at IBSE, IIT Madras.
Eligibility Candidates must have completed their Ph.D. within the last two years Candidates must have demonstrated academic excellence Shortlisting criteria Academic pedigree, performance PhD research area and list of publications, if any Proficiency in programming (high-level languages, preferably Python/R/MATLAB) Contribution to open-source projects will be a plus
Benefits Work in a highly interdisciplinary environment, with eminent faculty in Systems Biology and Data Science Monthly emoluments of ₹45,000 (plus HRA) Access to state-of-the-art high-performance CPU/GPU computing infrastructure Funds to attend a national conference every year Regular colloquia by international experts and workshops
Areas of Research Application of systems genetics approaches in India specific clinical datasets Network and community detection in multi-omic data Metabolic modelling for diseases Application of Machine Learning algorithms in clinical data Process analytics and systems theory for metabolic modelling and optimisation Application of NLP in biological data analysis
Application Apply to ibse.projects@gmail.com with following details: Latest CV describing your academic record with publications list, list of programming languages known, level of proficiency and certification if any (attach a single PDF or link to Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive) A research proposal (500-750 words) listing preferred research areas IBSE Faculty Mentors (ibse.iitm.ac.in/ibse/team/) you are interested in Deadline for application: 30 June 2019 Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed the following month