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INFORMATION ON SELECTION PROCEDURE

Date of selection procedure announcement

Krakow,01.09.2025

Selection procedure information number given by the Centre for Human Resources
1227.1101.248 (2).2025

Dean of the faculty of /Director of a non-faculty, inter-faculty or common unit

Acting Director of the Malopolska Biotechnology Center
prof. dr hab. Grzegorz Dubin

Address

Gronostajowa 7a
30-387 Kraków

RECTOR

of the Jagiellonian University

announces a selection procedure for the position of an

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Group of employees

Research staff

JU organisational unit (place of work performance)

Malopolska Biotechnology Center

Field of science

Science and life sciences

Discipline

Biological sciences

Scope

Structural biology, genetics, biochemistry

Number of posts (in the case of more than 1 post)

1 (post-doc_2)

Type of employment

Employment contract

Working time

Full time

Planned duration of employment

6 months with the possibility of extension

Expected date of employment commencement

Fourth quarter 2025

Remuneration

according to the Rules for Remunerating Jagiellonian University Employees

Requirements

The selection procedure is open for all individuals, who meet the requirements set out in Articles 113 and 116.2.3) of the Act of 20 July 2018 – Law on Higher Education and Science, and who meet the following eligibility criteria according to § 165 of the Statute of the Jagiellonian University:

• holding at least a doctoral degree;
• having relevant scientific achievements;
• taking active part in scientific life.

Additional requirements necessary for employment (indicated in order of priority)

Eligibility and project criteria:

• Obtaining a PhD degree no earlier than 7 years before the year of employment in the project.
• Obtaining a PhD degree which has been awarded by another institution than the one planned to employ them at this post i.e. Jagiellonian University.
• The Principal investigator was not research supervisor or auxiliary supervisor of PhD dissertation

Eligibility and project criteria are indicated in detail on the NCN website - regulations for SONATA BIS 14 (p.no.43)

Annex 2 to Regulations on awarding funding for research tasks funded by the National Science Centre as regards research projects laid down in NCN Council Resolution No 59/2024 of 6 June 2024

The candidate is expected to have:

• PhD in bioinformatics, structural biology, computational biology, biophysics, or a related field.
• Documented experience (e.g., publications, code, databases) cryo-EM and/or X-ray crystallography workflows, including data formats, handling Electron Microscopy Data Bank entries, performing map-model fitting.
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments and solid programming skills in Python and Bash.
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English.
• Familiarity with protein structure quality assessment and refinement, and hands-on experience with AlphaFold2/AlphaFold3, will be considered an advantage.
• Experience with machine learning methods (e.g., LLM, variational autoencoders, diffusion models) and/or with managing and querying large biological databases is a strong plus.

Project Title

(in the case of project selection procedures / IDUJ)

"From Static to Dynamic: Integrating Glycan Dynamics into Structural Biology” funded by the SONATA BIS 14 program of the National Science Centre (NCN)

Project description

(in the case of project selection procedures / IDUJ)

We invite applications for postdoctoral positions within the project "From Static to Dynamic Structures: Integrating Glycan Dynamics with Structural Biology," funded by the SONATA BIS 14 program of the National Science Centre (NCN).

The successful candidate will join our Dioscuri Centre and work on: “Re‑engineering the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) for Glycan Awareness.”

In cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), structural models are generated by averaging tens of thousands of particle projections. Flexible and dynamic regions—such as glycans—are averaged out during processing, leaving these regions largely unresolved in the final maps. Although traces of their presence can still be detected as low-resolution density, glycans are typically not modelled explicitly. As a result, resources such as the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) and the Protein Data Bank (PDB) contain very limited glycosylation information, reducing model interpretability and propagating into machine-learning models trained on these datasets.

The selected candidate will develop next-generation computational workflows to re-analyse cryo-EM density maps from EMDB and reconstruct protein structures with explicit glycosylation. Working in close collaboration with cryo-EM laboratories at Academia Sinica and the University of Oxford, the postdoc will design and implement automated pipelines for large-scale map curation and integration into existing cryo-EM processing frameworks.

The curated and re-processed models will form the basis of a publicly accessible EMDB-derived database of refined glycoprotein structures. Leveraging this resource, we will investigate how glycans influence local and global protein conformations and incorporate these insights into AlphaFold2/AlphaFold3 predictions, enabling more accurate modelling of glycoproteins at the proteome scale.

The Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology and the Dioscuri Centre strive to ensure a workplace with equal opportunities. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all members irrespective of gender, nationality or disabilities.

Scope of duties

(to be completed with the appropriate description of duties resulting from the project / IDUJ)

according to theWork Regulations of the Jagiellonian University Annex 1 to the Work Regulations of the Jagiellonian University – Model scopes of responsibilities and duties of academic teachers

We offer

• stable employment based on an employment contract at the renowned university,
• cooperation with the interdisciplinary academic community represented by well-known scientists,
• scientific support as well as the possibility of qualifications improvement and professional development,
• access to research infrastructure,
• benefits in the form of i.a. Multisport card, sports activities, medical packages, group insurance,
• additional social benefits.

Required application documents

1. resume,
2. personal questionnaire filled in by the candidate,
3. copy of the doctoral diploma or a diploma confirming the candidate’s habilitation degree, if applicable,
4. information on the candidate’s scientific, teaching and organisational achievements,
5. declaration of the candidate, confirming that the Jagiellonian University will be their primary place of work, should they be selected in the selection procedure,
6. statement under Article 113 of the Law on higher education and science,
7. statement on acknowledging and accepting the rules and regulations concerning intellectual property management and commercialisation in force at the Jagiellonian University.
8. list of publications (along with the respective publishing houses and the number of pages), electronic versions for non-open access publications

Declaration forms (no. 5-7) and personal questionnaire template (no. 2) can be obtained at:

https://cso.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/konkursy

The course of selection procedure

The first stage of the selection procedure is the formal assessment of the submitted documents. Applications which meet all formal requirements are the subject of substantive assessment, during which an interview with the Candidate may be conducted (directly or via electronic communication channels), upon settling the date of the interview with the Candidate. During the interview, the soft competencies indicated in the announcement will also be verified.
The Candidate has the right to appeal against the negative assessment by the selection board within 7 days from receiving the information about the results of the assessment.

The selection procedure is conducted in accordance with The Policy of Open, Transparent and Merit-Based Recruitment Process at the Jagiellonian University

Form of submission

by e-mail to the address: job.mcb@uj.edu.pl, title: 1227.1101.248(2).2025 assistant professor Sonata Bis 14

Deadline for submission of applications

30.09.2025

Expected date of the selection procedure settlement

Fourth quarter 2025

Method of communicating of the results of the selection procedure

by e-mail

Questions

For further information please contact by e-mail: job.mcb@uj.edu.pl

In the selection procedure, the Jagiellonian University follows the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and a Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers.

Jagiellonian University does not provide housing.