Introduction to the vacant position:
The Molecular Bionics Group is looking for a Laboratory Technician to provide technical support to the research activities led by Amayra Hernández Vega, Ramón y Cajal researcher associated with the group. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the efficient organization and day-to-day operation of the laboratory, while supporting advanced research activities in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment.
Main tasks and responsibilities:
- General laboratory organization, including reagent ordering, inventory management, and proactive identification of needs and improvements in methods, tools, and purchases.
- Training and onboarding of new group members in laboratory organization, equipment use, and best practices.
- Genotyping and general oversight of mouse lines and breeding/crossing strategies for colony maintenance.
- Technical support to researchers in the culture and differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) and primary neuronal cultures
- Acting as the main contact person between researchers and distributors, maintenance services, safety officers, administrative staff, and other IBEC departments.
Requirements for candidates:
Essential:
- Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Biochemistry, or a related field.
- FELASA Category C certification or equivalent qualification (e.g. certified animal experimentation course).
- Strong competencies in communication, teamwork and collaboration, commitment.
- High level of English (spoken and written).
Advantageous:
- Previous experience as a laboratory technician supporting research groups in international laboratory environments.
- Experience working with mouse models.
- Experience in cell culture, including hPSCs and/or primary mouse neurons.
- Experience with molecular and cell biology techniques.
- Demonstrated problem-solving and organizational skills, particularly in multidisciplinary and multicultural research environments
- Felasa Category D certification.
- Protein purification experience.
Competencies and Skills:
We value not only technical expertise but also the demonstration of core competencies such as Communication, Teamwork and Collaboration, Commitment, Proactivity, Integrity, and Critical and Analytical Thinking.
We Offer:
- Number of available positions: 1
- Starting date: 1st March, 2026
- Working conditions:
- Full-time 1 year contract (with possibility of extension for two more years).
- Measures to reconcile work and family life (parental leave, flexible schedule working hours, 23 working days of paid holidays, 9 leave days for personal matters, among others).
- IBEC ensures equality of access to professional development opportunities irrespective of employment status, length at IBEC or other factors. The IBEC’s yearly training catalogue offers a wide range of training in technical and transferable skills including mobility grants and a Mentoring programme for predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers.
- Stimulating, interdisciplinary research and high-quality international scientific environment.
- Induction programme to facilitate incorporation at IBEC and additional support is provided for foreigners to obtain Visa-working permit and to install in Barcelona.
How to apply:
Until 24/02/2026 an online application form is available through IBEC dedicated site: https://careers.ibecbarcelona.eu/
Only those applications submitted before the deadline will be evaluated.
Reference: LT-AH.
If you have any further question regarding your application, please contact us at jobs@ibecbarcelona.eu
Principles of the selection process:
IBEC is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit based Recruitment principles (OTM-R) https://ibecbarcelona.eu/careers-at-ibec/jobs/
IBEC´s Commitment on equal opportunity, diversity, and Inclusion:
Our strength and excellence as an international transdisciplinary Research Institute are based on diversity. Being an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to diversity and inclusion, so that we support employees irrespective of their gender, nationality, religion, disabilities, age, sexual identity or cultural and socioeconomic background.
Visit our devoted webpage on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
For candidates with children that come from outside Barcelona, we offer babysitting services during the interview, so you don’t have to worry about anything else than doing a good interview. Contact us if you are interested in this service.
In categories where women are underrepresented, such as Group Leader positions, and with the aim of ensuring gender balance in recruitment processes, women candidates must represent at least 50% of those interviewed for Junior-level positions and 40% for Senior-level positions, provided they have CVs comparable to those of male candidates. At the end of the evaluation process, in cases of equal merit, preference will be given to women candidates.
IBEC, as a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), will consider, especially for early-stage investigators, much more the scientific content of research outputs, than publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which it were published.
Protection of personal data:
IBEC guarantees that candidates’ personal data are processed in accordance with the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Law 3/2018 on Data Protection.
Personal data will be processed solely for the purposes of the selection process.
Who we are?
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, IBEC is an interdisciplinary research center focused on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine based in Barcelona. IBEC is one of the top research institutions named as a Severo Ochoa Research Centre by the Ministry of Science, Universities and Innovation, which recognizes excellence at the highest international level in terms of research, training, human resources, outreach and technology transfer.
IBEC’s mission is to develop international high-quality interdisciplinary research that, while creating knowledge, contributes to making a better quality of life, improving health and creating wealth. A close link with key universities, reference hospitals and corporations, are assets that facilitate achieving the mission.
IBEC was established in 2005 by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Autonomous Government of Catalonia), the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).
IBEC is located within the Barcelona Science Park and is managing 3.800 square meters facilities, with an annual budget of 22 Mio€; 4.150 square meters of facilities; 21 research groups and a team of researchers and support services of 400 people from 35 different countries. www.ibecbarcelona.eu
