Postdoctoral Researcher in Systems Biology of Cardiometabolic Diseases

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Subject

Systems Biology of Cardiometabolic Diseases.

Subject Description

Cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) are progressive and multifactorial, requiring stage-specific biomarkers for early detection. This project aims to develop data-driven methods to identify progressive CMD biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets.

Responsibilities

You will primarily focus on conducting high-quality research. You will lead a project analyzing multi-omic data from blood and affected tissues in clinical patients and contribute to ongoing research in the field. Responsibilities include data quality control and analysis, dissemination of research results through scientific articles and conference presentations, and supervision of students within the group. There is an opportunity to develop and broaden the project's focus within its given framework depending on your expertise and research interests. You are also expected to collaborate on projects with other group members, contribute to administrative tasks such as data collection and ethics applications, and support the overall work of the research group. This position is part of the national DDLS program, which gives you the opportunity to become part of a network of the next generation of data-driven life sciences researchers.

Eligibility

Eligible for employment as a postdoctoral researcher is someone who has obtained a doctoral degree, artistic doctoral degree, or has a foreign degree that is assessed to correspond to a doctoral degree. This eligibility requirement must be met by the time the employment decision is made.

In the first instance, preference will be given to those who have obtained their degree no more than three years before the application deadline. Those who obtained their degree earlier may also be considered in the first instance if there are special reasons. Special reasons refer to leave due to illness, parental leave, trust assignments within trade unions, service in the total defense, or other similar circumstances as well as clinical service or relevant service/assignments for the subject area.

Assessment Criteria

Requirements:

• PhD in bioinformatics, biostatistics, computational biology, computer science, machine learning, molecular biology, or a related field is required.
• Ability to generate ideas and conduct independent research is crucial.
• Strong computational background and ability to work with UNIX and independently program in Python or R is required (Python is preferred).
• Experience in analyzing and visualizing large datasets is expected.
• Fluent English in both spoken and written form is required.

Merits:

• Documented ability to write scientific text coherently. This can be demonstrated through published scientific articles where the applicant is the first author and has written a significant part of the text (including completed manuscripts on preprint servers).
• Experience working with noisy data and managing multiple confounding factors.
• Experience applying machine learning and/or network analysis to complex datasets.
• Experience using version control (e.g., Git) and working with reproducible science.
• Experience working with high-performance data infrastructure (HPC).
• Experience in omics analysis (e.g., transcriptomics, metabolomics) beyond statistical inference.
• Experience in research on cardiometabolic diseases.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

Employment

Employment form: Fixed-term employment, 24 months
Scope: 100%
Location: Department of Medicine, Gothenburg
Start date: By agreement

Contact Information for the Position

Muhammad Arif
Assistant Professor
muhammad.arif@gu.se (mailto:muhammad.arif@gu.se)

Malin Levin
Department Head
Malin.Levin@wlab.gu.se (mailto:Malin.Levin@wlab.gu.se)

Trade Unions

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Application

For the complete advertisement text, see the University of Gothenburg's website. You apply for the position via the University of Gothenburg's recruitment portal by registering your application electronically via the website: https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-anstallningar (https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-anstallningar). As an applicant, you are responsible for ensuring that your application is complete in accordance with the advertisement and that it reaches the university no later than the application deadline.

Attach your doctoral degree certificate with your application; if the degree certificate has not yet been issued, it must be attached at the latest by the time the employment decision is made.

Your application should include:

• A Curriculum Vitae. Please include the two most representative/central publications.
• A short personal letter describing your motivation to join our group, previous research experiences, and how you fit the position. Focus particularly on your research interests. (Max two A4 pages)
• Contact information for two references who will be contacted after the interview stage. Include name, position, relation to the applicant, and email address. Phone numbers are optional and only if the person agrees to be contacted by phone.

We kindly ask you to write your application in English.

The application must be submitted no later than: 2025-04-29

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