Postdoc In AI Foundation Models For Crop Microbiomes

A postdoctoral researcher is sought to take a leading technical role in the EU-funded EIC Pathfinder project NOAH, developing ARCA, an AI foundation model for crop microbiomes. The work sits at the interface of deep learning, bioinformatics and microbial ecology, using large-scale microbiome and genome data to learn contextual representations of microbes and communities. It covers both foundation-model pretraining and downstream predictive and generative applications tested in greenhouse and field settings. The position is embedded in an interdisciplinary research environment with access to GPU/HPC infrastructure and curated microbiome datasets.