Position title: Head of Research Computing Platform

Employer: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Closing date: 30/9/2021

Brief position description: An exciting opportunity is now available for a leader in scientific computing to become the Head of the WEHI Research Computing Platform within the Computational Biology Theme.

The role will be responsible to build on existing capabilities and support the world-class computational research at WEHI. The role will work closely with the Computational Biology Theme Leader, Chief Information Officer and Head of ITS Research Systems. It will involve engaging and collaborating with the outstanding computational and biomedical researchers at WEHI to help understand current and future needs and support their biomedical research. The vision is to drive the on-going development of advanced computing use at WEHI by delivering innovative, effective and scalable solutions that enable collaborative, flexible, reproducible, compute-intensive research while enforcing appropriate standards of data integrity, security, privacy and access.

Job website: http://www.wehi.edu.au/research-computing-platform-head

Contact name: Tony Papenfuss

Contact email: papenfuss@wehi.edu.au