The candidate will be part of the LOMIC unit at the Oceanologic Observatory of Banyuls, which has a strong expertise in marine microbial ecology and ecotoxicology. We are working in close collaboration with the French national center for sequencing CEA-Genoscope to generate large amount of metagenomic data. The position will benefit of a large consortium with experts in oceanography, biogeochemistry and molecular microbial ecology, as well as physics and chemistry of the polymers from academic research and industry.