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POSITION SPECIFICS

JOB TITLE: Researcher 

LOCATION: University Park, PA

DEPARTMENT: NCEMS
COLLEGE/UNIT: Huck

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Huck Institutes of The Life Sciences (The Huck) and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences (NCEMS) seek to hire a Researcher to support and advance NCEMS’s mission of catalyzing and conducting community-scale synthesis in the molecular and cellular sciences through research and externally facing activities.

The successful candidate will contribute to a dynamic and collaborative research environment and will work closely with internal and external faculty, staff, students, and partners. This position is intended to support an individual in the early stages of a research career who will contribute to ongoing research efforts while continuing to build expertise in computational and data-intensive synthesis science. The role is primarily research-focused and emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, reproducible analytical approaches, and scholarly output.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Advance the NCEMS mission through participation in community-scale synthesis research in the molecular and cellular sciences

• Contribute to research activities involving computational biology, bioinformatics, biological data analysis, and related quantitative approaches

• Analyze and interpret complex molecular and cellular datasets

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams across NCEMS and with external research partners

• Contribute to the preparation of technical reports, manuscripts, presentations, and other research outputs

• Support the development and application of reproducible and open-science-oriented