Postdoc on Multimodal Foundation Models in Molecular Medicine, EPFL and Novartis
Job Description
EPFL’s AIMM Lab is hiring a postdoc on multimodal foundation models, in an industry collaboration with Novartis. The call is open until filled.
At a glance
- Post: Postdoc on Multimodal Foundation Models in Molecular Medicine
- Where: Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Medicine (AIMM) Lab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Pay: on the EPFL scale for this grade; the advert gives no figure
- Closing date: none given. EPFL reviews applications as they arrive, so the post is open until filled. We re-check these listings about every 30 days
Read the official EPFL advertisement before you apply.
The project
The Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Medicine Lab, led by Professor Charlotte Bunne, sits at the interface of computer science and the life sciences. It is affiliated with EPFL’s School of Computer and Communication Sciences, its School of Life Sciences, and the EPFL AI Center.
This postdoctoral position is part of an industry collaboration with Novartis and focuses on multimodal foundation models. Molecular medicine generates data of very different kinds at once: images, sequences, perturbation screens, clinical records. A foundation model that can hold several of those modalities together is the thing this field has been reaching for, and a pharmaceutical partner is where it meets real decisions.
What you need
- A PhD in computer science, machine learning, computational biology or a related field
- Experience training or adapting large models, ideally across more than one data modality
- Read the official advertisement for the full requirements
Pay and conditions
EPFL pays doctoral assistants and postdoctoral researchers on published Swiss federal scales, which are among the higher ones in Europe. This advertisement states no figure, so check the scale for your grade and the cost of living in Lausanne before you decide.
How to apply
Apply through the EPFL careers page for this post. The advertisement gives no closing date. EPFL reviews applications as they come in, so apply early.
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Hiring institution: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Official advertisement: careers.epfl.ch
How to prepare for this application
- Industry collaboration is part of the post. Say how you work with partners outside academia.
- Biology literacy matters. This is not a generic vision or language post; the modalities are molecular.
- EPFL works in English. Research and teaching at this level run in English, so French is useful but rarely required.
- Doctoral candidates apply twice. A lab offer at EPFL is normally followed by admission to a doctoral programme, so check the programme's own requirements too.
About EPFL
The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is one of Switzerland's two federal institutes of technology. It has more than 6,500 staff and over 18,500 people on campus, including more than 14,000 students and 4,000 researchers from over 120 countries, with sites at Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Fribourg, Sion, Geneva and Villigen.
