A Group leader position is open at the Institut de Biologie Valrose (iBV), Nice, France. We are seeking a candidate to develop independent research on the molecular bases of disease processes and with the potential to establish collaborative networks with local clinicians.
The candidate will benefit from dedicated lab and office spaces located at the Pasteur campus, as well as from access to the iBV state-of-the-art technology platforms, including microscopy, cytometry, histology, bioinformatics, synthetic biology and animal facility infrastructures. He/she will be strongly supported by the iBV to obtain an institutional permanent position and apply for a competitive start-up package. The iBV is committed to promoting scientific excellence by ensuring equity, diversity and inclusion of researchers regardless of their ethnic or sexual identity. Women are particularly encouraged to apply.
The iBV is an internationally recognized institute, presently hosting 27 research groups, with >20 different nationalities, using English as a working language (http://ibv.unice.fr/). Research at the iBV is dedicated to deciphering the basic principles of biology involved in health and disease. To this aim, iBV researchers use a wide range of biological model systems as well as human tissues and patient-derived material. They develop a variety of approaches, in particular advanced computational methods for biological as well as medical image analysis. The iBV is supported by the University Côte d’Azur, the CNRS and the Inserm. It is affiliated to the School of Life & Health Sciences (EUR Life) and participates to different national and structuring programs including the Dynabio IDEX program, the 3IA cluster of excellence, the MICA network of imaging platforms.
Interested candidates should send their application to ibv.direction@univ-cotedazur.fr before the 6th of July. Applications should be submitted as a single pdf and contain a curriculum vitae with 2-3 reference contacts, a short description of achievements and a research program of maximum 5 pages. Interviews are scheduled for September.