Postdoc in Harness, Swarm and Memory Engineering for Computational Biology

VIB

Ghent, Belgium

About the position

The lab is looking for a postdoc to further develop agentic pipelines that autonomously manage computational tasks:

• You oversee dozens of computational biology tasks across biological disciplines;
• You launch agent swarms solving these tasks and monitor their progress;
• You communicate with task experts to understand ongoing and emerging biological needs and translate them into new tasks;
• In collaboration with our wet-lab team and collaborators, you identify and integrate validation data;
• In collaboration with the VIB.AI ML unit, you manage a large codebase containing the harness, interpretation, memory, tasks, swarm behaviour and source datasets;
• You formulate and test hypotheses that may improve the harness, long-term memory and/or swarming behaviour;
• You present your research at international conferences and publish in scientific journals;
• You contribute to the supervision of PhD students working in these areas.

Your profile

• Excited to bring biology into the agentic era;
• Broad interest across biological domains is a must;
• PhD in computational biology, computer engineering, computer science, (bio)statistics, artificial intelligence, physics, or related;
• Desire to push the frontier of both biology and (agent-driven) software engineering;
• Fluency in written and spoken English;
• Embraces complexity.