Postdoctoral Researcher (f, m, div.) in the Field of Metabarcoding Data Curation and Bioinformatics

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description The Leibniz Institute for Horticultural Sciences (IGZ) conducts excellent basic research in plant sciences with applications in horticulture focusing on vegetables and the use of plant diversity. The IGZ is a member of the Leibniz Association and is based in Grossbeeren. For further information, please visit our website: www.igzev.de. The following position is available at the institute from February 1, 2027 for a fixed term of two years in the research group ‘Plant-Microbe Systems’ within the DFG-funded collaborative project 'Multi-level Corpus for Microbial Ecology' (MuCoME, funded within the Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (LIS) programme of the DFG): . Postdoctoral Researcher (f, m, div.) in the Field of Metabarcoding Data Curation and Bioinformatics . Reference number: 18/2026/2 . The salary will be based on qualification and research experience according to the wage agreement TV-L, up to pay scale 13, 80% of regular working hours. The project expands the Microbial Community Database (MiCoDa, https://micoda.idiv.de/ ) into a comprehensive, AI-ready data corpus for microbial metabarcoding research. Together with partners at IOW (Warnemünde) and Hochschule Wismar, the project develops methods for extracting and harmonising unstructured metadata from publications, as well as for curating and harmonising 16S rRNA metabarcoding sequence data, aiming to expand MiC