Permanent BioImage Analyst Position, Institut Curie and INRIA, France

The French biomedical research organism INSERM opens a permanent BioImage Analyst (F/M) position in the Cellular and Chemical Biology Laboratory (https://institut-curie.org/unit/umr3666-u1143) for microscopy-based data analysis, including software and statistical model development. The BioImage Analyst will be assigned to the SAIRPICO team (https://team.inria.fr/serpico). The official application site will open by the middle of June 2023, and will close by the middle of July 2023.

Location

INSERM U1143, Cellular and Chemical Biology, Institut Curie Research Center, 26 Rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, and Centre Inria de l’Université de Rennes, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France.

Job description

In close collaboration with members of the Cellular and Chemical Biology Laboratory, you will participate in scientific programs that require the design of image acquisition strategies in advanced microscopy, the development of image analysis workflows and of customized scripts/macros/plugins. With the support of Inria colleagues, you will also be responsible for advising and training colleagues in computational techniques. Hands-on experience in optics instrumentation and/or biological experimentation would be a definite plus. Moreover, you will also collaborate with researchers and bioimage analysts from other units of the Institut Curie Research Center and members of the France-BioImaging infrastructure (https://france-bioimaging.org/), in the “BioImage Informatics – Image Processing & Data Management” node and within Euro-BioImaging-ERIC (https://www.eurobioimaging.eu/).

Your main activities will be:

• Development and deployment of algorithms, advanced methods for image processing and analysis.
• Design of image analysis pipelines/workflows, implementation of automated data analysis protocols, and optimization onto various platforms and operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS).
• Collaboration with imaging specialists and biologists in projects for smart (deep learning-assisted) image acquisition and reconstruction in super-resolution, light sheet, and possibly electron microscopies.
• Train user, write documentation and tutorials, maintain relevant software repositories and documentations, teach courses for image and data analysis, and perform knowledge and technology transfer.

For additional information please check the job offer.
Closing date mid of July 2023