Job Reference:
- 47_26_LS_CG_R1

Position:
- PhD student - Phylogenomics (R1)

Closing Date:
- Sunday, 15 February, 2026

Reference: 47_26_LS_CG_R1

Job title: PhD student - Phylogenomics (R1)

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- The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D; into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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Context And Mission

Key Duties
- Perform phylogenetic and comparative analysis of large datasets of protein families from diverse organisms.
- Inference of functional properties of proteins, based on their sequence, reconstruction of potential metabolic properties of ancestral organisms.
- Inference of ancestral evolutionary processes, including horizontal gene transfer, directional selection, gene loss and duplication.
- Preparation and presentation of scientific articles.
- Collaborate in the preparation and presentation of scientific projects.
- Establish and maintain collaborations with national and international researchers.

Requirements:
- Education
- Master degree in a topic related to comparative and evolutionary genomics (or equivalent).

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