About the role
VIB and KU Leuven seek a Principal Investigator to serve as Group Leader at VIB and Professor at KU Leuven's Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, developing AI methods and mechanistic mathematical models for fundamental biology questions (AI architectures for biology, foundation models of genome regulation, protein structure modeling, disease modeling). The role includes establishing an independent research group, teaching, supervising graduate students, and securing competitive funding, with renewable five-year core funding and dedicated recruiting support. Requires a PhD in machine learning or a related quantitative field, a strong publication and funding record, and fluent English (Dutch to CEFR B2 within five years).
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