Who We Are

Team Excellence

Our Department strives for teamwork and team-education. Organized around the grant-funded research programs of our faculty, we generate platforms for cross-departmental and cross-institutional research and training. All members of our Department benefit from a climate of openness, peer-to-peer support, a minimally hierarchical structure, and the belief in collective excellence.

Innovation

Given the interdisciplinary nature of the Bioinformatics & Computational Biology fields, we foster a collaborative environment that encourages new ideas to blossom and take root. Check out our initiatives & events page for more information on our various programs and events.

Fair Compensation

Our personnel have decided to stay in an academic environment for the beauty of making unbounded discoveries. The feeling of observing a data point for the first time or having an epiphany of a concept no one else has ever thought through is priceless. Yet, money matters. This is especially true for our postdoc community, where many individuals have responsibilities outside of the research environment, including families of their own. We therefore seek to provide internationally competitive postdoctoral compensation. As of September 1, 2023, a first year postdoc will earn an annual base salary of $70,000 (see our updated postdoc pay plan). We also believe that striving for excellence belongs to a research culture and must be recognized. Our pay plan thus provides postdocs with an independent, competitive fellowship bonus payment of > $20,000 on top of their annual base salary. With this pay plan, we intend that a fifth-year postdoc, awarded for example with a K99-grant, crosses the threshold into receiving a six-figure salary. Moreover, we provide additional bonus mechanisms for postdocs engaged in teaching opportunities. Together, this shall become a springboard for our trainees into leadership positions in academia or industry.