Research Assistant (1-year)

• Are you an ambitious lab scientist with a drive to take up new challenges?
• Are you willing to work in a small team and diverse projects?

Cysbio and your role

Cysbio ApS is located in the DTU Science Park in Hørsholm, just north of Copenhagen in Denmark. We are a team of mainly engineers and scientists working on designing, building, and testing cell factories to produce biochemicals at an industrial scale.

We are seeking for innovative and highly skilled strain engineering research assistant to support our ongoing strain engineering campaigns in E. coli. You will be actively involved in improvement of production strains. You will oversee constructing and screening enzyme mutant libraries in high throughput and batch fermentations. Apart from molecular biology these campaigns would also include fermentation, enzyme characterization and engineering.

As a research assistant you will

• Have Masters in Biochemistry, Microbiology or Biotechnology.
• Have a proven record of cloning and genome engineering campaigns in E. coli.
• Have experience in generation and analysis of enzyme mutant libraries.
• Have a good knowledge in fermentation and cell physiology.
• Have fluency in English reading and writing.

Additional practical experience in relevant technologies is valued and should be mentioned in the application.

Interested?

If you have any questions about the position, please contact R&D Director Hemanshu Mundhada (hemu@cysbio.com).

How to apply?

Please prepare a single combined PDF (max 10 MB) with documents in this particular order: Your application letter, resume and diplomas/academic transcripts as well as publication list (you may highlight your contributions), list of references and recommendation letters if available.

Please fill in questionnaire and attach your application in this online form.

The application deadline is 21^st of November 2026, but applications will be evaluated as received.

About Cysbio

Founded in 2019, Cysbio is a biosolutions company with an increasing portfolio of small biochemical products at various developmental stages. We use a synthetic biology approach to harvest the capacities of nature for a sustainable production for better future.

The Cysbio team is an energetic and ambitious group of researchers and business developers, and we aim to have an enjoyable work environment while reaching our goals.

For more details, please visit www.cysbio.com.