Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative QTLomics and Plant Functional Genomics

The EvOmics group at Aarhus University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher. The position is based at the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (QGG) under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Irene Julca. The position is available from 1 October 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. 

Expected start date and duration of employment

This is a three-year position starting 1 October 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. 

Job description

The position is part of the SNSF-funded project “AI-driven comparative QTLomics to accelerate crop improvement,” a collaborative project with partners at UniProt, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, and Aalborg University. The project aims to unlock decades of scattered QTL knowledge from the plant genetics literature by combining AI-assisted expert curation, orthology inference, phylogenomics, functional annotation, and candidate gene prioritisation across crop ...

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