Research engineer in bioinformatics applied to archaeogenetics W/M

Employeur

The University of Bordeaux is a great dynamic and responsible university that cares about the well-being of its staff. Joining us means working in a privileged environment within a particularly diverse and open professional community, benefiting from welcome and inclusion schemes, training and internal mobility. It means participating in an academic, scientific and human adventure. It means committing to meeting the challenges of the 21st century.

Join the laboratory From Prehistory to Present: Culture, Environment and Anthropology (PACEA) – of the University of Bordeaux!

PACEA is a joint research unit attached to the CNRS (Ecology & Environment), the University of Bordeaux and the Ministry of Culture. At the interface of biological, environmental and human sciences, its work addresses major questions related to the factors that have shaped humanity, enabling our ancestors to settle on all continents thanks to adaptive capacities whose diversity we are currently exploring.

As part of the Human Past Major Research Program (GPR), we are recruiting a Research Engineer W/M in bioinformatics applied to archaeogenetics.

“Human Past” aims to document, characterize and understand the tipping points that have induced major biological and cultural changes within past human populations. Spanning a large chronological period (from Prehistory to historical times), our research aims to identify the steps that enabled a primate originally adapted to African ecosystems to evolve into a species that occupies and impacts every ecosystem on the planet. Biological and social systems will be scrutinized at different scales from a multitude of perspectives with particular attention paid to phenotypic and genetic variability, cognition, technology, social organization, belief systems, and genetic and cultural adaptive strategies that drive human societies.

Votre mission

The objective of your mission is to develop an innovative methodological approach, enabling the construction of integrated graphs combining cultural and biological data, in order to better characterize the dynamics of cultural diffusion versus demographic dynamics during the evolution of human populations. The methods will be applied to various geo-chrono-cultural contexts targeted by researchers at the GPR Human Past.

The project aligns perfectly with the objectives of WP1-Action 3 of the GPR Human Past, which aims to disentangle the respective/combined roles of "environmental and socio-cultural factors affecting the genetic and phenotypic variation" of human populations.

·       Bioinformatics development of graph methods

·       Propose their application to the research themes of GPR members

·       Dissemination of the results in the form of research articles

Vos atouts / Vos talents

Holder of a PhD in paleogenomics or bioinformatics, you have basic knowledge in anthropology, archaeology, genetics, molecular biology, computational genomics, imputation, IBD, Linux environment, Python and graph theory.

·       You are autonomous in your work and know how to work in a multidisciplinary manner

·       You are comfortable with Linux, Shell Bash, Python in particular the Pandas libraries, NumPy and NetworkX

·       Knowledge of Gephi or Cytoscape software would be an asset, particularly for sharing and visualizing graphs with collaborators.

·       In paleogenomics, a mastery of HaploGrep, pathPhynder or Yleaf tools for the analysis of uniparental markers would be appreciated

·       Experience with ATLAS and GLIMPSE for imputation, as well as with ancIBD, would also be an advantage

Do you recognize yourself? Apply!

More information:

Archaeological research is increasingly integrating graph and network approaches, as evidenced by the creation of the "Connected Past" community in 2011.

You will be supervised by Marie-France DEGUILLOUX and Mélanie PRUVOST.

Based in Pessac, Gironde, FRANCE – access by tramway line B (stop « François Bordes ») buses, bike.

The laboratory is near the city-centre of Bordeaux and about 60 Km of the Atlantic coast.

12-month fixed-term contract

Gross monthly salary: from 2400€ and 2700€ according to the salary grid

Job Benefits:

50 days of annual leave from the first year

75% of the cost of a Gironde public transport pass covered

Contribution to private healthcare insurance of 15€ / month

Subsidised meals

Leisure, sports and cultural activities for all staff

Disabled-friendly establishment

Possibility of staff parking

Sustainable mobility package for commuting between home and work

Welcome programme and training courses

Recruitment process: Applications are reviewed as they arrive.

Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted by the Recruitment Officer for a first pre-qualification phone conversation. An interview with the supervisor will then be organised by videoconference. The job interview are scheduled beetween the 11th and the 17th of March 2026 and the starting date of the contract on the 1st of April 2026.