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IT Services

Bringing digital biology to life

Our mission is to empower our users by providing a state-of-the-art, affordable and easy-to-use IT environment.

EMBL IT Services provide IT infrastructure, services and support to EMBL’s scientific community and administration in Heidelberg, Rome, Barcelona, as well as other EMBL sites.

Research in molecular life science is becoming data-intensive. As new technologies enable EMBL’s scientists to acquire more – and more complex – data, the IT Services team deploys innovative approaches to help them store, analyse and make sense of that wealth of information.

Servers at EMBL HD

IT Infrastructure

At EMBL Heidelberg, the IT infrastructure is designed to support data-driven science involving key technologies such as genome sequencing, large-scale imaging, computational biology and modelling.

3D Cloud: Efficient image analysis

The EMBL 3D Cloud is a flexible, scalable virtualisation infrastructure that enables users to process microscopy data without having to move large datasets multiple times.

What EMBL researchers say

Handling datasets

Alba Diz-Muñoz – Group Leader, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit

“What I find very special about the IT department here is that you can come to them with a problem and they’ll solve it very quickly. The efficiency of the team is really remarkable.”

Efficient computation

Jaime Huerta – Research Scientist, Bork Group

“I’m very happy with the new system they’re setting up, which is the state-of-the-art in high-performance computing.”

Work with us

Want to push the boundaries of current technology? Interested in joining an international team that values your own development as much as the infrastructure’s?

Learn more about working at EMBL.

We welcome speculative applications: if there are currently no open positions that fit your portfolio, email ITjobs@embl.de and tell us why we can’t do without you.

Meet people from the team

What our alumni say about working in IT Services

Current vacancies

Postdoctoral Fellowship: spatial and single-cell computational biology for precision oncology

Science, research and training in EMBL Heidelberg

EMBL is Europe’s flagship laboratory for the life sciences – an intergovernmental organisation with more than 110 independent research groups and service teams covering the spectrum of molecular biology. It operates across six sites in Heidelberg (headquarters), Barcelona, Cambridge, Grenoble, Hambu…

Closes on 18th August. Posted 7th July 2023

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Integrationshilfe – EMBL Kindergarten (Minijob Basis, 2 Stellen)

Administrative and support in EMBL Heidelberg

Das EMBL Kinderhaus ist ein lebendiges Kinderhaus und legt Wert auf eine zukunftsorientierte, internationale Entwicklung in partnerschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit mit Kindern, Eltern und pädagogischen Fachkräften. Unsere Zusammenarbeit ist geprägt von gegenseitigem Respekt, Verlässlichkeit und Transpare…

Closes on 31st July. Posted 5th July 2023

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Pädagogische Fachkraft – Erzieher / Kinderpfleger (m,w,d)

Administrative and support in EMBL Heidelberg

Das EMBL Kinderhaus ist ein lebendiges Kinderhaus und legt Wert auf eine zukunftsorientierte, internationale Entwicklung in partnerschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit mit Kindern, Eltern und pädagogischen Fachkräften. Unsere Zusammenarbeit ist geprägt von gegenseitigem Respekt, Verlässlichkeit und Transpare…

Closes on 31st July. Posted 5th July 2023

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