Postdoctoral Researcher in Epidemiology Full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher in Epidemiology

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

Do you want to join a successful research group at Karolinska Institutet, working at the forefront of data-driven clinical epidemiological transfusion research? We now have an opening for an ERC-funded post-doctoral researcher who will join Gustaf Edgren's research group, working on a range of important issues relevant for blood safety.

Your Mission

We are recruiting a post doc in epidemiology or biostatistics, who has a genuine interest for – and experience from – working with large-scale epidemiologic data analysis. The applicant will join a well-funded research group that primarily conducts research on short- and long-term complications of blood transfusions, as well as on possible health effects of repeated blood donation. Examples of ongoing studies include, but are not limited to, donor health and disease transmission from blood donors to transfused patients. Research is mostly based on the SCANDAT database, a comprehensive database on blood donations and transfusions with health outcomes of both donors and transfused patients, dating back to the 1960's.

As a post doc you will lead projects relating to blood safety, working with internationally unique, large-scale data. In this role you will:

• Work at the forefront of data-driven transfusion research, in a dynamic and active research group
• Help formulate research questions, and be responsible for developing and executing analyses
• Prepare results for publication and external presentation

Depending on your interests you may also have the opportunity to develop your own projects and research line, within the research group's focus area, and to participate in teaching activities as well as in the mentoring of doctoral and master students.

Your Profile

We are searching for a highly motivated and creative post doc with extensive experience of large-scale epidemiological analysis, with the following background:

• A PhD in a relevant field (epidemiology, biostatistics, health data science, or other highly quantitative fields)
• Very strong data and programming skills (e.g. R, Python, SAS, Stata, SQL) and proficiency in applied statistical analysis
• Previous successful research is required, with publications in high-quality international journals
• Documented experience from having worked with large-scale, complex data, such as health care datasets with millions of observations or bigger
• A medical degree, or at least some experience from the medical field, is preferable
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken) is a requirement

To be eligible for employment as a postdoctor, a PhD or a foreign degree deemed to be equivalent to a Swedish PhD is required. This eligibility requirement must be fulfilled at the latest at the time of the employment decision. Completion of your doctoral degree within the last three years is considered an advantage. If there are special reasons, your degree may have been completed earlier.

What Do We Offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement.

Location

The position is located within the Department of Medicine, Solna. The department consists of ten divisions and each division consists of several research groups. The position is located within the research group of Gustaf Edgren, which has a track record of performing successful and innovative clinical epidemiological research. For more details, see: www.scandat.se.

Application

An employment application must contain the following documents in English or Swedish:

• PhD certificate
• A complete resumé, including date of the thesis defence, title of the thesis, previous academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work
• A complete list of publications
• A summary of current work (no more than one page)

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.