The Department of General and Visceral Surgery (Head: Prof. Dr. Stefan Fichtner-Feigl) invites talented and highly gifted candidates to apply as Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in Bioinformatics in the DFG-funded collaborative research center TRR417 starting at October 2025 for three years initially with a possibility for extension.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics (m/f/d)

The University of Freiburg, founded in 1457, belongs to the best universities of Germany. Freiburg has a large international studen body and is located in the Black Forrest with a 30-minute drive to both Switzerland and France. With around 11,500 employees, the Medical Center - University of Freiburg is among the largest university medical centers in Germany. Around 1300 doctors and 2900 nurses provide healthcare services to mor than 69,900 inpatients and 837,000 outpatients each year.
The University Medical Center engages in research, teaching, and healthcare as its core responsibilities, always with the goal of offering current and future patients treatment informed by the latest scientific findings.

Research area:
The Research Group Oncoimmunology belongs to the Department of General and Visceral Surgery and is led by PD Dr. Rebecca Kesselring. Our research group addresses fundamental questions about the modulation of immune responses in the tumor microenvironment of visceral cancer. We focus on the impact of immune cells on the progression of colorectal cancer both in basic and translational research. Another key goal is to identify the impact of intestinal microbiota on pathogenesis of visceral cancer. We utilise multi-disciplinary approaches to answer these key questions including; immunology, oncology (in vitro model-organoid systems, ex vivo tissue culture), microbiology, next generation sequencing (16S seq, RNA seq, single cell sequencing, spatial transcriptomics), bioinformatics tools and human studies.

Your profile:

• PhD in bioinformatics, oncology or computational biology
• profound experience in system biology and research interest in immunology and oncology
• independent worker open to adapt and develop novel technologies and methodologies
• knowledge in bioinformatics and data analysis and system biololgy
• motivated with strong interest and substantial knowledge in oncology and bioinformatics
• collaborative skills are fundamental prerequisites

We offer:

• interesting, versatile workplace and an international, attractive working environment
• work in an interdisciplinary team together with basic scientists, surgeons and clinician scientists and bioinformaticians
• multiple opportunities for continuing education and the development of an independent research career
• campus with modern state-of-the art infrastructure
• salary according to TV-L including social benefits

The position is to be filled on a full-time basis. It is limited to a duration of 3 years.

We look forward to receiving your application documents via our online portal.

If you have any questions regarding the project please contact Dr. Rebecca Kesselring via email:
rebecca.kesselring@uniklinik-freiburg.de

General information: Salary is assigned according to a pay scale. Unless prevented by operational or legal reasons, full-time positions are generally open to those wishing to job share. Where two candidates are equally suitable for a post, severely disabled candidates are given priority. Employment decisions are made by the Personnel Department.