Dr. Adam Phillippy (https://www.cs.jhu.edu/faculty/adam-phillippy/) is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join his research group at Johns Hopkins University beginning in 2026 or early 2027. The position will be based in the Department of Computer Science in the Whiting School of Engineering, with opportunities to engage with the broader Johns Hopkins research ecosystem, including the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Genetic Medicine.

The postdoctoral researcher will develop and apply computational methods across the problems of genome assembly, comparative genomics, gene annotation, pangenomics, personalized genomes, and rare disease clinical diagnostics, with the specific focus shaped by the candidate's interests. Much of this work leverages recently developed reference pangenome databases, and their corresponding data structures, that efficiently capture the genetic variation of a species. These methods can be applied to population-scale sequenci...