Postdoctoral Opportunity in AI and Structural Biology (ARISE2 Fellowship)
Irina Matetovici
We are excited to announce a unique postdoctoral opportunity for a STEM professional to work on cutting-edge AI applications in structural biology through the ARISE2 MSCA-funded fellowship programme.
Our project, led by the Pereira and Velankar teams, aims to address computational challenges in predicting protein function using AI-based methods. Our work will focus on:
- Use structure and sequence data to generate training and benchmark datasets for developing AI methods
- Develop advanced AI methods to predict protein function
- Use Knowledge Graph (KG) techniques to provide enriched functional annotations. This will enable more efficient data interpretation and knowledge transfer between related proteins.
Location and Duration
- Primary Location: EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK
- Regular collaboration and visits to VIB AI in Leuven, Belgium, are expected.
- The position is for 3 years.
Application
Please submit a two-page CV and a two-page project proposal related to the area outlined above to Sameer Velankar at sam...@ebi.ac.uk and joana....@kuleuven.be by 5 September 2025.
The two-page proposal should cover the following areas -
- Background, proposed project
- Expected results & their impact
- Service to be offered
- Consideration of FAIR principles
This is a pre-proposal. In the second step, we will select one candidate by 16 September at the latest. The selected candidate will then submit a full proposal by the deadline for the ARISE2 call on 30 September.
More information about the ARISE2 programme can be found at https://www.embl.org/training/arise2/
Please review the guidelines and project proposal template available on the ARISE2 website.
Contacts:
- For this application
- Sameer Velankar <sam...@ebi.ac.uk
- Joana Pereira <joana....@kuleuven.be>
- For questions about the ARISE2 program