Job Description
Job Title:
Research Assistant (Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum)
Posting Start Date:
10/07/2025
Job Description:
Job Description
Research Assistant (2-year position) to function primarily as a project operations coordinator and assist the Project lead in the following aspects of work.
Primary Duties:
- Specimen Image Collation: Manage workflows to gather, organize, and quality-check images of biological specimens for inclusion in digital databases and AI training datasets
- Taxonomic Literature Collation: Oversee the collection, organization, and curation of taxonomic literature relevant to targeted taxa
- Intern Management: Supervise interns assisting with specimen sorting, imaging, data entry, and literature collation; develop work schedules and task lists.
Secondary duties:
- AI Model Training Support: Assist in preparing, validating, and managing datasets to train and improve AI model accuracy in species identification and classification
- Project Administration: Assisting with coordination between research staff, maintaining detailed records of project progress, and preparing data for project milestone reports.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Science in a Biology-related field (e.g., Biodiversity, Ecology, Zoology, Life Sciences)
Experience:
- Interest in taxonomy, systematics, and entomology
- Experience in specimen handling and (macro)photography
- Familiarity with image processing software (e.g., Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, ImageJ)
- Exposure to or basic understanding of AI concepts and data preparation for machine learning
- Familiarity with biodiversity data platforms (e.g., GBIF) and basic biodiversity informatics concepts
- Experience in project managemen
Skills:
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Good working knowledge of Excel and MS Office applications.
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Experience in leading/supervising students or interns is advantageous
- Comfortable working independently and as part of a team in a dynamic research environment.
More Information
Location: Kent Ridge Campus
Organization: Science
Department : Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum
Employee Referral Eligible: No
Job requisition ID : 29611