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 segmentation, debarcoding and spatial statistics.
Close the experimental-computational loop, using analysis results to guide the design of the next round of automated experiments (design of experiments, active learning).
Ensure reproducibility and FAIR data practices: version-controlled code, documented protocols, structured metadata and open sharing of tools.
Present results at internal meetings and international conferences, and contribute to manuscript preparation.
Apply for competitive postdoctoral fellowships and, later, for independent career awards, with full support from th

📌 Postdoctoral Researcher (Barcelona)
🏢 Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)
📍 Barcelona