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* Three-year postdoc position in biomedical data analytics
* Location: School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK
* Deadline for application: 25th of April, 2018
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We seek a biomedical data scientist for the APPROACH EU IMI project. The
focus of this project is the development of patient stratification
algorithms for the disease osteoarthritis (OA). To assist the project,
we are integrating the data of 10 different OA cohorts from across
Europe with a variety of data sources, including clinical data,
questionnaires, imaging data, and biological assays.
The main responsibility of this post will be to design innovative data
integration strategies so that we can extract the maximum value from the
wealth of data that the project will create, particularly focusing on
the discovery of new OA phenotypes.
You should have a PhD awarded or nearing completion in data analytics
and its applications (or a related field) and have a strong track record
of peer-reviewed publications.
You 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 3 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.
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/BIR380/research-assistant-associate-biomedical-data-analytics-d120117r/
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Jaume Bacardit, PhD
Reader in Machine Learning
Newcastle University
The Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems research group.
Web: http://www.ico2s.org/
Twitter: @ico2s
School of Computing, Newcastle University.
1 Science Square, Science Central, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG, UK
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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