Subject: Tenure-Track Position for in Data Mining at Biocruces,
Bilbao (Spain)
The new Research Institute called "Biocruces" is at this moment being
created and will be associated to the Cruces Hospital in Bilbao,
North Spain. The Biocruces Institute will be physically located near
the Cruces Hospital in Barakaldo, the biggest Hospital in the Basque
Country. The Biocruces Institute, now in construction, will finally
have an extension of more than 12000 square meters distributed in
different areas and labs, allocating to more than 450 researchers
structured in about 70 different research groups. The structure of
Biocruces will be the following:
1) Six Fundamental areas: F1). Cancer, F2) Metabolism, Nutrition and
Endocrinology, F3) Neurosciences, F4) Mother-Child Health and
Assisted Reproductive Tech, F5) Chronic Inflammation and Infectious
Diseases and F6) Surgery and Biotech.
2) Six Translational areas: T1) Systems Biomedicine, T2) High-Tech
Biomedicine (Nanotech and Cancer, and Nanosurgery), T3) Advanced
Therapy, Pharmacology Research and Devices, T4) Clinical
Epidemiology, T5) Research for Primary Health Care and T6) Telematics
and Biomedicine
This structure and organization make the new Biocruces Institute to
be an excellent and unique Institution, not only focused on healthcare
but for basic research, to explore and exploit the excellent
synergies of working with multiple groups making possible to perform
an excellent, cross-talk, multidisciplinary research.
The position offered in this ad will be associated to the new
created Quantitative Biomedicine Unit at Biocruces. The Director of
the Unit will be the Prof. Luis Vega, an authority in Mathematics and
a researcher in the ISIHighlyCited list, in the category of
Mathematics. The aim and main purpose of this Unit will be to give
scientific support to clinicians in the Hospital, covering topics such
as: data analysis, data visualization, modeling, data quantification,
etc. So this unit will develop interdisciplinary research at the
frontier between biomedicine, quantitative sciences and engineering.
More concrete, details about the working conditions are the following:
1. The position is in principle for 5 years, with possibility of
tenure after an evaluation at the 4th year.
2. There is not any startup funding, so the researcher will have to
apply for his own research funding.
3. The position will not have any teaching duties so it will have
full-dedication for research.
4. The researcher will work interdependently so highly motivated
individuals must apply.
5. Applicants have to have at least 2 years of postdoctoral experience
before applying.
6. We are offering a competitive salary, negotiable according to
experience and individual merits.
7. Language used at work is English.
8. Deadline to apply is March 15th, 2012.
9. A possible date to start the position is about October 1st, 2012,
or later on, but not before this date.
Technical Details for the Position:
Experience in machine learning methods for the analysis of large
data sets, applying techniques such as data mining, time series
analysis, neural networks analysis, clustering algorithms,
classification methods, dimensionality reduction, cloud and grid
computing, visualization, design and implementation in software
engineering including R, Matlab, C++. Must have real experience with
biomedical data.
Interested in applying, send before March 15th the next docs by
email to Jesus Cortes ([log in to unmask])
1) A cover letter, indicating why your profile fits the position
2) Best 5 publications (each one separated in pdf).
3) An updated CV
4) Two recommendation letters.
Yours Sincerely
Jesus M Cortes
Scientific Coordinator of the Quantitative Biomedicine Unit at
Biocruces Institute.
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