About this role
Language - Discover the best of nature at Naturalis. Step into the world of dinosaurs and stand face to face with T. rex Trix, or find out what The Netherlands looked like during the last Ice Age. - Our knowledge contributes to biodiversity preservation. - Together, we discover the richness of nature. - We are Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Through our impressive collection, knowledge and data, we record all life on Earth. This is important, as our future depends on biodiversity. Bioinformatician . Can a teaspoon of soil reveal the species living around it? At Naturalis in Leiden, we turn environmental DNA from soil, water and air into biodiversity knowledge. In this Bioinformatician job, you'll build the high-throughput sequencing and AI pipelines that make species monitoring accessible to researchers, industry, policy and citizens - work that shapes the future of how we understand life on our planet. Bachelor degree Parttime (32 uur per week) Fixed term € 3.463 - € 4.500 Apply now As a Bioinformatician - You help build a national research infrastructure that uses environmental DNA to monitor life on Earth: pioneering work with real impact for science, policy and society. - You work at the frontier of DNA sequencing and AI, with the freedom to experiment and bring your own ideas to detecting and classifying biodiversity. - You join a multidisciplinary, international team at the Netherlands' national biodiversity institute, where FAIR data and open science are the norm, not an afterthought. This is what you'll be doing As a bioinformatician, you develop and refine the pipelines that turn environmental DNA samples into biodiversity insight. You work on metabarcoding of mixed environmental samples, calculate diversity metrics including phylogenetic diversity, apply machine learning to classify sequences, and keep our molecular reference databases current. You deploy and maintain these pipelines on workflow s...