Overview Your group: Fabio Petroni's lab - EMBL Rome.
Our mission is to build AI systems that act as cognitive members of a scientific laboratory. We design and evaluate agentic AI systems that collaborate with researchers across the full discovery cycle: literature analysis, hypothesis generation, experimental design, equipment orchestration, and data interpretation.
Research and engineering are deeply integrated in the lab: ideas are built into systems, and systems enable new scientific insights.
You will have access to cutting-edge computing infrastructure and the opportunity to develop and self-host state-of-the-art language models and agents. The group works in close collaboration with wet-lab scientists and has early access to experimental data, advanced instrumentation, and deep domain expertise, enabling novel lab-in-the-loop research.
The lab is embedded within EMBL's broader AI strategy and collaborates with leading academic and industrial partners. Candidates will be able to pursue both foundational AI research and real-world deployment in experimental scientific settings.




Your role Design and build agentic AI systems for life-science discovery
Evaluate and benchmark models in real laboratory workflows
Work at the interface between AI systems and experimental biology
Publish high-impact research papers
You have A PhD in computer science, artificial intelligence, computer engineering, AI for Science, or a related field
A strong publication record
Experience with LLMs and agentic systems. A strong systems background, including shell and distributed systems
Experience with modern infrastructure such as Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and GPUs
Motivation to build systems that interact with real scientific environments
Fluency in English
A background in biology is not required.
Contract Length 2 years, with possibility of extension.
Salary Year 1 Stipend at rate of €3.228,38 € per month after tax but excluding pension and insurance contributions.
Professional devel

📌 Postdoctoral Fellow in AI Agents for Science (Italia)
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📍 Italia