Tenure-track Assistant Professor: Biotechnological Utilization of Microbial Viruses

The Department of Plant and Environmental Science invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position within the field of bacteriophage biology with start 1 May 2020, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The impact of microbes on the health of eukaryotes is increasingly recognized in both human-, animal- and plant-related research. Surrounding- and regulating the distribution of the microbes are the bacteriophages, often outnumbering the bacteria 10:1. The bacteriophages thereby act as modulators of bacterial communities and may have great future biotechnological potential as both biocontrol agents and as a source of new biotechnological enzymes.

The position is advertised in connection to a newly established Environmental Microbial Genomics (EMG) group headed by Professor Lars Hestbjerg Hansen to address this major knowledge gap within phage biology.