Postdoctoral Scientist in Molecular Modelling/Structural Bioinformatics and Machine Learning (f/m/d), Lyon

Bayer is an international group whose core businesses lie in the healthcare and agriculture sectors. At the intersection of chemistry and biology, Bayer helps to improve quality of life by offering products and services in human and plant health.

Your Tasks & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to apply state-of-the-art data analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to:
• Improve the quality and completeness of protein structures predictions
• Predict protein functions
• Develop new, innovative methods for the characterization and identification of new protein targets
• Contribute to the implementation of a cross-divisional platform to accelerate the identification of new mode of actions
• Interact and collaborate with members of others international Bayer entities, as much as with wet-lab colleagues in conceiving and evaluating experiments, and in interpreting experimental results
• Present results and project advancements in various committee

Who you are

• PhD in structural bioinformatics, biophysics, computer sciences, computational chemistry or related fields and sincere interest for life sciences.
• Experience with state-of-the-art machine-learning and artificial intelligence methods, preferably applied to protein structure or protein function prediction.
• Solid understanding of protein evolution and its implication at protein sequence and structural level is a prerequisite.
• Experience in working with structural data produced by X-ray crystallography, Cryo-EM and NMR data is preferred.
• Excellent programming skills in Python is preferred.
• Knowledge of physics-based methods such as molecular dynamics and free energy perturbations would be of advantage
• Willingness to work in a multidisciplinary environment and to closely collaborate with biologists, biochemists, and chemists
• Creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills, and ability to independently devise and develop innovative solutions in a challenging stimulating environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills, written and verbal communication and fluency in written and spoken English. Basic knowledge of German and/or French would be of advantage