Institute for bioengineering of Catalonia, IBEC
Organisation/Company Institute for bioengineering of Catalonia, IBEC Research Field Biological sciences Researcher Profile Established Researcher (R3) Positions Postdoc Positions Application Deadline 16 Oct 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid) Country Spain Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 37.5 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Other EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description Introduction to the vacant position:
The Spatial Biotechnology Group is looking for a talented and highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to work at the interface between experimental and computational biology, building automated, closed-loop workflows. The position is part of our effort to understand how cells spatially organize to drive solid tumor development, and it brings together three fast-moving fronts: spatial proteomics, lineage tracing technologies, and laboratory automation.



The successful candidate will design and execute robot-driven experiments and will analyze the resulting spatial data, closing the loop between experimental design, automated execution and data-driven decisions about what to run next. This is an opportunity for a hybrid scientist who wants to help define how a self-driving biology laboratory works.
Main tasks and responsibilities:
- Design, build and validate automated liquid-handling workflows on an Opentrons Flex platform (Python API).
- Establish and run spatial proteomics on in vitro co-cultures, engineered 3D tumor models and tissue sections.
- Implement clonal barcoding and lineage tracing readouts, including in situ detection and debarcoding of individual clones.
- Scale perturbation experiments to high-throughput formats, integrating robotics, automated microscopy and sample tracking into reproducible end-to-end pipelines.
- Develop and apply computational pipelines for image processing, cell s

📌 Postdoctoral Researcher At The Spatial Biotechnology Research Group (La Mancha)
🏢 Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)
📍 La Mancha