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The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is the national centre for research into the geosphere. With around 1,650 employees, we develop a sound understanding of systems and processes of the solid Earth as well as strategies and options for action to counter global change, understand natural hazards and sustainably secure energy and raw material requirements.
Data Scientist (f_m_x) for mass spectrometric datasets
Reference Number 9718
Processing and utilisation of large FT-ICR-MS datasets
Section 3.2 at GFZ Potsdam studies organic molecules across earth history to improve our understanding of e.g. the global carbon cycle, lipid biosynthesis, climate change and evolutionary geobiology. The organic inventory in living organisms, environments, sediments, and ancient sedimentary rocks is typically complex with thousands of molecules, but only a few are routinely used in organic geochemistry. High-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS, such as FT-ICR-MS, Orbitrap-MS) allows for the simultaneous detection of the entire suite of organic molecules, but extracting meaningful information from the data is a challenge. We are looking for a person to dive into the data, working in close collaboration with organic geochemists.
Your responsibilities:
- Introducing machine learning for interrogating HRMS data, with the goal of recognizing patterns in multidimensional data that provide meaningful information about the nature of organic molecules, their biological origins, environmental affinities, and transformations within sediments and rocks
- Making the existing pipelines of HRMS data processing fully automatic
- Developing a user-friendly, interactive, and easily updatable database comprising multiple types of data acquired in the section over the last two decades
Your qualifications:
- Master’s degree or diploma in natural, computer or data sciences
- Experience in data science and machine learning
- Advanced programming skills (Python or R)
- creativity and out-of-the-box thinking
- High agility and receptiveness
- Existing ideas on implementing machine learning to HRMS data is an advantage
- Background in Geosciences is an advantage
- Fluent English skills
What we offer:
- Ambitious and varied tasks in a dynamic and international research environment
- State-of-the-art equipment
- Public service benefits
- Extensive training opportunities
- Professional career advice offered by our in-house Career-Centre
- Flexible working hours and conditions
- Support with finding a good work-life balance offered by benefit@work
- Institute day-care centre on site
- Working at the Albert Einstein science park on the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam
- Work place within walking distance of Potsdam main train station, or just a short ride on the shuttle bus
Fixed-term: 16 months
Salary: The position is classed as salary group 13 according to “TVöD Bund (Tarifgebiet Ost)”. The salary group is determined on the basis of the Collective Wage Agreement and the respective personal qualifications.
Working hours: Full-time (currently 39 h/week); The position is generally suitable for part-time work.
Place of work: Potsdam
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