Are you interested in research and surveillance of influenza and RSV? Are you skilled in bioinformatics? Then you might be our new co-worker at the National Influenza laboratory.
About Department of Virology & Microbiological Preparedness As our new colleague, you will be a part of the Department of Virology & Microbiological Preparedness (VMB), where we perform research, surveillance, and diagnostics of viral infections in both humans and animals.
The department is the national central laboratory for human and veterinary virology and comprises the national WHO centre on influenza, covid-19, polio and measles/rubella.
The available position is within the national reference laboratory for influenza and RSV in humans and animals. We are involved in preparedness in case of outbreaks, surveillance of circulating influenza viruses, and research in e.g. zoonotic transmission of influenza virus from animals to humans.
About the positions: You will be involved in research, diagnostic and surveillance activities of influenza and RSV. You will also be connected to a large research project investigating genetic markers important for zoonotic transmission of influenza viruses with the ambition of predicting and preventing a future pandemic (project homepage:
FluZooMark - Home – University of Copenhagen).
Your primary tasks are to be responsible for the bioinformatics analysis of whole genome sequencing data and the development, implementation and maintenance of bioinformatics tools for both research projects and routine viral diagnostics and surveillance.
Your work in the FluZooMark project involves bioinformatic analyses, where you will be looking for molecular markers in the viral genome related to zoonotic transmission based on next-generation sequencing data of thousands of influenza virus samples from both human and swine origin.
Required qualifications: You are a microbiologist with a PhD degree in bioinformatics. You have extensive experience working with influenza and RSV genomes. You have experience with influenza and RSV surveillance and diagnostics. You can develop, install and run various bioinformatics tools and will be able to interpret the results with the assistance of virologists.
You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
Technical requirements:- Develop, install, run, debug, and maintain bioinformatics pipelines
- Proficiency with programming languages and scripting in Python, R and especially Julia
- Experience with Illumina and/or Nanopore sequencing data analysis
- Good understanding and experience with LIMS and VETLIMS systems at SSI
- Experience with phylogenetic analyses
- Knowledge of molecular biology and influenza (human, swine and avian) and RSV virology
- Experience analyzing minority variants of influenza.
- Ability to generate automatic reports (eg R Markdown) of analyzed data and sequencing runs.
- Experience with other bioinformatic tools (e.g. PyMol, BEAST, FastTree, HyPhy, IQTree)
Terms of employment: The employment will be in accordance with the terms of the collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Federation of Professional Associations (AC-overenskomsten).
The employment is temporary for a period of two years.
Further information. For further details and informal enquiries please contact the head of section Ramona Trebbien phone +45 32683591
Application and recruitment process: Click “apply” to send your job application with the following appendixes
- curriculum vitae (CV)
- copies of relevant academic diplomas (master and PhD)
Read more about the recruiting process on
Job på SSI.
Interviews are expected to be held in weeks 14-15.
