Vacant job

Your Responsibilities

We are looking for an Associate Professor in Medical Data Analysis. This position offers significant responsibility within one of Sweden's central infrastructures for data-driven life science. You lead the scientific part of the operations and drive national and international collaborations. It is a strategic role in a research-intensive environment with great opportunities to influence.

You will be employed as an Associate Professor and become part of ITN, Linköping University (https://liu.se/organisation/liu/itn), with your workplace at the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University Hospital (CMIV (http://www.liu.se/cmiv)).

Analytic Imaging Diagnostics Arena (AIDA) is a national arena based at Linköping University, supporting research and innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) for precision diagnostics. Here, academia, healthcare, and industry meet to translate technical advances in AI into patient benefits in the form of clinically useful tools. Read more at AIDA (http://www.medtech4health.se/aida).

AIDA Data Hub, a branch within AIDA, is a national e-infrastructure for research and innovation in data-driven precision health. We offer secure computing and storage resources, data and data-sharing services, and advanced support and training in data policy, AI development, and secure system design. The target audience is researchers, industry, and healthcare providers of national significance.

Read more at AIDA Data Hub (http://datahub.aida.scilifelab.se/).

You are active within the research community, participate in departmental activities such as seminars and workshops, engage in research projects, communicate results through scientific publications, and contribute to attracting external research funding.

This position involves contributing to competence development across the country through AIDA's activities regarding project support, workshops, and courses. The employment may, to a lesser extent, include teaching at undergraduate and advanced levels, as well as supervising students at the faculty's various programs.

You actively contribute to the university's development work. Collaboration is an integrated part of the university's research and education mission. Collaboration in research occurs by spreading, making available, and utilizing research. The position entails close collaboration with leaders and experts from various organizations, higher education institutions, companies, and healthcare providers in other cities and countries, and travel is expected to occur as a natural part of the work.

In this position, you will be the scientific leader of AIDA Data Hub's operations. This includes driving and developing the hub's strategies to support excellent healthcare-proximity research and being responsible for the work within the hub's scientific collaborations. The role is part of the hub's management group and is led by the Head of Unit, who has overall responsibility for the hub's entire operations. Since the hub is a unit within SciLifeLab, you are expected to assume the role of Platform Scientific Director in SciLifeLab's organization.

Key tasks include developing and driving collaborations, not least within large-scale international research consortia, and successfully securing external grants for the hub's development. The role includes responsibility for the hub's support towards strategic partners, as well as responsibility for platform features specific to the medical application domains the hub supports. The role also includes operational work within this system development.

Your work involves following developments nationally and internationally within your field of expertise and other societal developments that are relevant to your work.

You are flexible and have the ability to move between different types of pedagogical and scientific contexts. You share knowledge and contribute to the professional development of the work group, collegial working methods, and social community. We consider your presence and activity essential for you to perform your duties in the best possible way and thrive in the work community.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for you who are appointed as a Docent (Associate Professor) or have equivalent scientific competence, and have demonstrated pedagogical skill, or other professional competence that is significant given the subject content and tasks of the employment.

For further information on assessment criteria and desired qualifications, we refer to the advertisement on LiU's website; Vacant Positions - Linköping University (https://liu.se/jobba-pa-liu/lediga-jobb).

Your Workplace

Read more about our operations here ITN, Linköping University (https://liu.se/organisation/liu/itn).

About the Employment

Permanent position, full-time.

Start date according to agreement.

For more information on eligibility requirements, assessment criteria, and recruitment procedures for teachers, see governing documents (https://styrdokument.liu.se/Regelsamling/VisaBeslut/622784).

The position may be placed in a security classification. If so, a security investigation with registry check will be conducted before a decision on employment is made.

Salary and Benefits

Linköping University applies individual and differentiated salary setting in accordance with the current collective agreement (RALS/RALS-T) and the university's guidelines for salary formation.

Read more about benefits for employees benefits (https://liu.se/jobba-pa-liu/formaner).

Union Representatives

Information about union representatives, see help for applicants (https://liu.se/jobba-pa-liu/hjalp-for-sokande).

Application

Welcome to apply for this position by clicking the "Apply" button below. Your complete application including attachments must be received by Linköping University no later than August 14, 2026.

Applications and/or application documents received after the last application date will not be considered.

Publications, in pdf or word format, are attached to the application form. Publications that you do not have in digital form are sent by post in three copies to Linköping University, Registrator, 581 83 Linköping. The publications must be received by Linköping University no later than the last application date. Printed publications are not returned, as documents received by Linköping University are preserved or destroyed according to current retention rules.

We welcome applicants with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, as this enriches and develops our operations. For us, it is natural to safeguard everyone's equal value, rights, and opportunities. Read about our work with equal conditions (https://liu.se/artikel/lika-villkor/).

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