Supercomputers help us to find solutions to major social challenges and are indispensable for modern research. The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) operates one of the most powerful supercomputing infrastructures in Europe, which enables us to analyse simulate the complexity of the human brain. The JSC’s High Performance Computing in Neuroscience department provides community-specific support for neuroscientists with respect to complex simulations and data analyses on supercomputers, as well as their methods. It plays a leading role in the Human Brain Project (HBP, https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/) an EU-funded Flagship initiative. The goal of the HBP is to build EBRAINS ( https://ebrains.eu/), a shared digital research infrastructure for brain research. As a member of the new EBRAINS Scientific Liaison Unit (SLU), you will bring together the HBP Science and Infrastructure Directors’ visions, the EBRAINS Community’s needs, and the day-to-day technical activities of the EBRAINS development teams.

We are looking to recruit a

Scientific Liaison Officer for EBRAINS

Your Job:

• Liaise with the wider neuroscience and AI communities to promote the use of EBRAINS by these communities
• Formalize scientific goals in a co-design process together with domain scientists
• Collect, document and abstract science requirements to drive targeted development efforts
• Structure and trigger HBP developments around self-contained projects leading to solutions that systematically bring the EBRAINS services together in a range of typical and specific contexts
• Contribute to building and expanding the EBRAINS Community. This includes the identification of the community’s needs and finding solutions together with the help of EBRAINS development teams.

Your Profile:

• Master’s degree in a scientific field, preferably in neuroscience, biology, medicine or psychology
• Solid background in computing / computational science
• Excellent communication skills to enable close collaboration with developers and users from academia and industry at the interface between neuroscience and computing
• Readiness to travel
• Strong affinity for collaborative work and the willingness to take initiative
• Good command of spoken and written English
• Previous experience in community building would be beneficial

Our Offer:

We work on the very latest issues that impact our society and are offering you the chance to actively help in shaping the change! We support you in your work with:

• The opportunity to become part of the Human Brain Project, a challenging large-scale, multidisciplinary European Research Infrastructure project with more than 100 partners in over 20 countries
• Excellent infrastructure of one of the largest research centres in Europe, located between the cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Aachen
• Flexible working hours, child care support, solutions for your individual life situation
• Development of your personal strengths through a wide spectrum of advanced training and professional development programs
• Full-time position with the option of slightly reduced working hours and 30 days of annual leave
• Targeted services for international employees, e.g. through our International Advisory Service

We offer you an exciting and varied role in an international and interdisciplinary working environment. Limited until 31.03.23, with possible long-term prospects. Salary and social benefits in conformity with the provisions of the Collective Agreement for the Civil Service (TVöD).

Forschungszentrum Jülich promotes equal opportunities and diversity in its employment relations.

We also welcome applications from disabled persons.