[Apologies if you receive multiple times this announcement. This is a
reminder of this position as the application deadline is *next Monday
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* Five-year postdoc position in biomedical analytics
* Location: School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK
* Deadline for application: 28th of October, 2016
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We seek a biomedical data scientist for the APPROACH EU project. The
focus of this project is the development of patient stratification
algorithms for the disease of Osteoarthitis (OA). To assist the project
we are integrating the data of 10 different OA Cohorts from across
Europe with a variety of data sources (basic clinical data,
questionnaires, imaging data, assays, etc.).
The main responsibility of this post will be to design innovative
strategies for data integration and harmonisation so that we can extract
the most value from the wealth of data that the project has access to,
and inform the patient recruitment of a new longitudinal cohort that
will be created as part of the project.
You should have a PhD awarded or nearing completion in data analytics
and its applications (or a related field) and be an internationally
recognised expert in data analytics and its applications.
The successful applicant for this post should have a skill set covering
most of the following:
- Experience in data integration and harmonisation
- Experience in dealing with heterogeneous biomedical data (omics,
clinical, imaging, etc.)
- Strong machine learning experience and proficiency in the state of the
art data science languages (e.g. R, python)
- Information visualisation
- Familiarity with High Performance Computing environments (e.g. HPC
clusters, GPUs, Cloud resources)
- Experience in working in highly interdisciplinary environments
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work both as part of a team and independently
- Ability to work under strict deadlines
This post is available fixed term for 5 years.
The main location of this position is Newcastle University, but there
may be some spells of work onsite at the offices of GlaxoSmithKline at
Stevenage, UK.
The School holds a bronze Athena SWAN award in addition to the
University’s Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our good
employment practices for the advancement of gender equality, and the
University holds the HR Excellence in Research award for our work to
support the career development of our researchers. We are also a member
of the Euraxess network.
Appointment will always be made on merit.
For informal enquiries, please send an email to
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More info and instructions on how to apply:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AUL759/research-assistant-associate-biomedical-data-analytics-d48665r/
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Jaume Bacardit, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Biodata Mining
Newcastle University
The Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems research group.
Web: http://www.ico2s.org/
Twitter: @ico2s
School of Computing Science, Claremont Tower, Newcastle University.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
Email: jaume _dot_ bacardit _at_ newcastle.ac.uk _dot_ ac _dot_ uk
Web: http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/jaume.bacardit
Twitter: @jaumebp
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