Postdoctoral position in functional ancient microbial ecogenomics within the Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability (AEGIS)

Employment type: FULLTIME. Requisition: 3117521. Section for GeoGenetics Globe Institute Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen The Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability (AEGIS) invites applications for three two-year postdoctoral positions in functional ancient microbial ecology, starting 1 November 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter.

We seek one researcher in each of three areas: computational ancient metabolomics and natural products, carbohydrate-active enzymes and carbohydrate metabolism, and protein language models for ancient metagenomics. Our research AEGIS is a pioneering research centre headed by Prof.

Eske Willerslev that brings together a highly interdisciplinary and international team of world-leading research groups with a shared vision of developing more robust, sustainable, and biodiverse crops and agricultural practices to mitigate the effects of climate change on global food production: https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/climate-resilient-crops-novo-nordisk-foundation-and-the-wellcome-trust-award-a-grant-of-up-to-dkk-585-million-to-the-ancient-environmental-genomics-initiative-for-sustainability/ AEGIS combines ancient environmental DNA, genomics, metagenomics, informatics and biostatistics, evolutionary biology, ecology, geology, archaeology, plant engineering, and agricultural crop research1 …