Senior Scientist Resistant Research

What you’ll do You will contribute across the full resistance-monitoring workflow-from planning global sample logistics and maintaining high-quality metadata, through to culturing pathogens, running bioassays and applying NGS molecular methods. Your work may include: - Supporting monitoring programmes for business-impactful fungal and oomycete pathogens, including Zymoseptoria tritici , Botrytis cinerea , Plasmopara viticola , Phytophthora infestans , Alternaria spp and more. - Coordinating the logistics of incoming and outgoing samples and biological material from across the world. - Isolating, cultivating and maintaining plant-pathogenic organisms under sterile conditions. - Performing bioassays and molecular analyses, including DNA extraction, primer design, PCR, qPCR, Sanger, NGS sequencing, and cloning. - Analysing bioassay data-such as EC50 values-and connecting phenotypic results with molecular markers and field efficacies. - Improving and standardising laboratory workflows across diverse sample types and pathogens. - Managing sample metadata and monitoring results with precision and care. - Collaborating closely with colleagues across the Resistance Research team to solve problems and move projects forward. - Working safely and in line with Health, Safety and Environment standards. Help shape the future of crop protection. At Syngenta’s Resistance Research team in Stein, we study how plant-pathogenic fungi evolve and develop resistance to fungicides. We are looking for a curious, accountable and hands-on Research Scientist to help deliver global monitoring programmes that turn field samples into scientific insight. This is a role for someone who enjoys practical laboratory science, cares about data quality, and wants their work to support sustainable disease control in agriculture. Why this role matters Fungicide resistance is a global challenge. In this role, your experiments, data and scientific judgement will help build the evidence needed to understand resistance evolution and support the development of durable crop-protection solutions.