Candidates
On the Careers at SIB page you will find job vacancies within groups affiliated with SIB.
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Why join SIB?
- Join a Swiss organization spearheading the field of data- and computer science applied to biomedical information and benefiting from international recognition;
- Belong to a community sharing a passion for making a positive impact on society;
- Exchange knowledge and experience within an extensive network of over 800 colleagues with various skills and diverse backgrounds;
- Integrate a collegial and friendly work atmosphere that fosters social interactions and that is supported by strong Equality, Diversity and Inclusion values;
- Improve your work-life balance:
- Flexible working hours, including possibility to work from home or part-time depending on the position;
- 6 weeks of holidays per year;
- Local benefits through partner institutions;
- Attractive family leave modalities.
SIB has 190 employees of 26 different nationalities *
* As of 1 January 2023
Faces of bioinformatics
A career in bioinformatics? Take a look at what drives our Biocurators, Software Developers, Bioinformaticians or Data Managers in their daily activities.
"Being a data enthusiast, I am clearly at the right place!" - an interview with Laith Abu-Nawwas, Data Manager
I am an SIB software developer in the Computational Structural Biology Group of Torsten Schwede. I apply my programming skills to the development and optimization of bioinformatics resources such as SWISS-MODEL – an SIB core resource – for the life science community.
Gerardo Tauriello, PhD
Development team LeaderComputational Structural Biology Group
I am a biocurator in SIB’s Swiss-Prot Group, specializing in the manual annotation of proteins of human origin, as well as those from other vertebrates. My job is to ensure that knowledge is extracted from the best-quality biological data generated from the literature, and that such knowledge becomes accessible to the community.
Cristina Casals Casas, PhD
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot biocuratorSwiss-Prot Group
I am an SIB embedded bioinformatician in the Clinical Pathology Division at the Geneva University Hospitals. My background is in computer science with a solid grounding in biology, and thus allows me to understand and address biological questions by developing novel computing approaches, such as clinical diagnostics tools and pipelines.
Yann Christinat, PhD
Clinical bioinformaticianClinical Pathology Division, HUG
I joined SIB in 2003 as a software developer. Since then I have worked in data management, front-end and back-end development and UX Design. Although women in software development are still too rare, in my experience you do not have to change who you are to feel you belong, and be valued in a team.
Séverine Duvaud, Software developer & UX designer
SIB Resource Usability & SupportDiscover also the interviews of Monique Zahn, Biodata Resources Support Manager, and Elisabeth Coudert, Team Lead Biocuration.
All kinds of roads lead to bioinformatics
SIB Members come from a wide range of educational backgrounds
Scientific excellence at heart
Meet some of the great scientists in our community: winners of an SIB Bioinformatics Award, they told us about their career development and their vision of the field.
- Christophe Dessimoz – SIB Early Career Bioinformatician Awardee in 2012, today an SIB Group Leader and a Member of the SIB Board of Directors
- Zoltán Kutalik – SIB Early Career Bioinformatician Awardee in 2008, today an SIB Group Leader
- Aitana Lebrand – SIB Early Career Bioinformatician Awardee in 2010, today a Clinical Bioinformatics Project Manager in the SIB Group of Valérie Barbié
- Julien Roux – SIB Best Swiss Bioinformatics Graduate Paper Awardee in 2009, today a Bioinformatician in the SIB Group of Robert Ivanek
- ... and many more
Swiss Bioinformatics: More than data
Discover the spirit behind Switzerland’s vibrant community of scientists dedicated to making sense out of biological data: from software developers, biocurators and bioinformaticians, to researchers that use the tools and software to advance our understanding of life.