The Department of Biotechnology has a long term tradition of industrial collaboration in all different fields of industrial biotechnology. Many projects are carried out in cooperation with the Institute of Applied Statistics and Computing since statistics are of increasing importance in this field.

Starting with June 2018, the Institute of Applied Statistics and Computing (IASC) together with the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) at BOKU Vienna offer a

3 years - PostDoc position in

Statistical Evaluation in Downstream Processing

Project description

Biopharmaceutical process development is commonly very empirically driven and needs a large number of experiments delivering corresponding data from diverse analytical tools and monitoring processes. Statistical evaluation of such data to determine precision, accuracy, reproducibility, and robustness of measurements are daily business for all scientists. Within the last two decades new trends emerged changing and challenging classical statistical tools and led to new developments. This leads to an exponential increase of included variables and parameters, and consequently, to huge expansion of the amounts of data. Furthermore, the release of the PAT guidance by the FDA in 2004 as the enabling aspect of Quality-by-Design in biopharmaceutical production changed the perspective on data interpretation including the need for modelling strategies, for predictability and evaluation of data in real time or close to. In the current project the post Doc position is thought to be an inter-linkage between BOKU and our industrial partner. You will get to know downstream processes during process development and on the manufacturing stage. Your will learn about the statistical tools and methods applied so far in the company. Based on your experience and the close interaction with the BOKU supervision we will develop tailor made statistical methods and concepts and you will implement those at the company.

Your profile

• PhD´s degree in bioinformatics / mathematics / statistics and expertise in biochemical engineering, biotechnology or a related field.
• Or PhD´s degree in biochemical engineering, biotechnology or a related field and expertise in mathematics / statistics
• Background in teaching welcome but not mandatory
• Excellent skills in spoken and written English
• Interpersonal skills conductive to team work and group research efforts
• Travel abroad for training purposes is expected

You have studied biochemistry or biotechnology and have deepened your expertise on bioengineering in a PhD thesis? You have applied mathematics and statistics for modelling and evaluation of biochemical and biotechnological processes?

Presenting your data to discuss it with your colleagues is the basis for disseminating your expertise and knowledge this is why you like to do that?

You agree that team work is the way for success?

You want to pursue your academic career in an industry-related and applied environment?

You are exactly the one we are looking for!

Please send your application in pdf format to astrid.duerauer@boku.ac.at or friedrich.leisch@boku.ac.at indicating “Application_PostDoc_Statistics” in the subject of the email. You can also contact us if you need further information.

Application deadline: 15.04.2018

BOKU is dedicated to a well balanced gender ratio. Therefore this job advertisement addresses qualified male and female persons equally. BOKU is part of the collective agreement of Austrian Universities under Austrian law. This position is limited to 3 years and the salary is determined as €40.024.26.- per year.