The Vall d´Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) Seeks a Bioinformatician Postdoc

Reference: 2025-063-01

Application deadline: 20/12/2025

Number of vacancies: 1

Job description:

The Experimental Hematological Group is seeking a skilled, organized, and motivated and team-oriented bioinformatician postdoc. The role will involve working with genomic and transcriptomic data obtained from patients diagnosed with lymphoid malignancies (chronic lymphocytic leukemia and NHL mainly). The main focus is the analysis of single cell multi-omics data.

The researcher will have the support and resources from the Bioinformatics Unit at VHIO.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and integrate high-throughput sequencing data (initial focus on scRNA-seq and ATAC-seq).

• Develop and apply computational pipelines for genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic studies.
• Collaborate with wet-lab scientists and clinicians to design experiments and interpret results.
• Contribute to biomarker discovery and predictive model development.
• Support data visualization, reporting, and dissemination of findings in publications.

Requirements

• PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or similar.
• Experience in Genomics and Cancer
• Fluent in R, Phyton and Bash (GNU/Linux) scripting. Other programming languages will also be valued.
• Advanced understanding of genomics technologies and their analysis workflows, particularly related to WGS, WES and targeted sequencing.
• Understanding of analysis of multi-omics single cells (10X Genomics and Parse Biotechnologies)
• Knowledge of statistical tools for biological data analysis.
• Advanced level of English, written and spoken.

Valuable additions:

• Professional experience relevant to the position.
• Experience in version control programming (e.g. Git) and hosting (e.g. GitHub).
• Experience in HPC environments, including Slurm and container systems (e.g. Docker or Singularity).

• Experience in Nextflow or similar workflow managers.
• Familiarity with statistical modelling, machine learning and deep-learning

Additional information:

We offer:

• 🌐The opportunity to work with our state-of-the-art HPC infrastructure and to join a vibrant network of bioinformaticians within our institute.
• 📈The possibility of developing your professional career in a competitive environment.
• 🧠To be part of a center that is constantly developing, pursuing excellence in research and collaborating with leading teams.
• 🫱🏻‍🫲🏾We offer and promote a diverse and inclusive environment, and welcome all people equally, regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation.
• 🪴We care about our environment and understand the importance of sustainability. We have the GreenVhio program, which you can be a part of.

Conditions:

• 📝Permanent contract.
• 🗓️Full-time position, 37.5 hours per week.
• 💶Salary according to qualifications and experience following VHIO pay scales.
• 💳Flexible remuneration program (includes restaurant vouchers/cards, transport, medical insurance, and “baby daycare” voucher).
• ⏰Flexible working hours and measures to balance work, family, and personal life, and promote gender equality, as established in the VHIO collective agreement.
• 🗺️24 days of holidays and 6 personal days.
  
• 🎓Fully subsidized Catalan, Spanish, or English courses.
• 🏃‍➡️Take advantage of doing sports at great prices with Urban Sports Club.
• 🩺You’ll have access to weekly physiotherapy sessions at the office, offered at a reduced price for the team.

Vall d’Hebron Institute Oncology (VHIO) endorses the Requirements and Principles of the European Charter for Researchers, the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers promoted by the European Commission and follows Equal Opportunities policies.

On 10th April 2018 VHIO was awarded the “HR Excellence in Research” logo. Our Institute was consequently granted permission to use the HR Excellence in Research Award logo as demonstration of its stimulating and favourable work environment in line with the Charter & Code.