The Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics conducts research in epidemiology and biostatistics across a broad range of areas within biomedical science. The department is among the largest of its type in Europe and has especially strong research profiles in psychiatric, cancer, reproductive, pediatric, pharmaco, genetic, and geriatric epidemiology, eating disorders, precision medicine, and biostatistics.

Part of the success of our department is due to our collaborative spirit where one factor is that researchers at the Department share and co-finance common resources (e.g., IT and an applied biostatistics group). The department is situated at campus Solna. Further information can be found at http://ki.se/en/meb

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

Your mission

The gastrointestinal epidemiology group at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB) is now looking for an applied statistician who matches our level of ambition to better understand, and prevent gastrointestinal disease. Our research group consists of biostatisticians, epidemiologists, clinicians, and a database administrator. We are seeking an applied statistician to join our research group to collaborate on a large-scale analysis project using biopsy register data. MEB and Karolinska Institutet is a highly active and respected research environment, with ample opportunities for career development and personal growth.  MEB has a large biostatistics group, which consists of around 40 statisticians with varying backgrounds, working both with applied problems and method development.

Sweden is renowned for its world-class nationwide health registers. Based on these registers, Swedish researchers have produced outstanding papers and advanced our understanding in medicine. The applied statistician will work with a database called ESPRESSO (Epidemiology Strengthened by histoPathology Reports in Sweden) under the supervision of Professor Jonas Ludvigsson (ki.se/en/people/joludv). Additional information can be found on the ESPRESSO web site: ki.se/en/meb/espresso.

The position requires a high level of statistical/mathematical competence, the ability to absorb necessary knowledge on medical science, and strong communication skills in a variety of media including oral, visual, and written. The main tasks include merging data from a variety of health administration datasets, developing and implementing statistical analysis plans, and reporting results at internal meetings, international conferences, and in scientific journals. This is a permanent position. 

 Key duties:

  • Consultation and discussion with clinical collaborators on research questions.
  • Identifying relevant data sources and creating valid and reproducible research variables from medical transaction databases.
  • Exploratory and descriptive data analysis, data visualization to clearly communicate results.
  • Implementation, interpretation, and reporting of results from both standard statistical methods and more advanced statistical issues, such as handling of missing data, causal inference, competing risks, and longitudinal data analysis.
  • Description of statistical methods used in an analysis and in general collaborating on the writing and editing of scientific articles and presentations.

Your profile

The applicant should be highly collegial, and be able to communicate well in a team and have the ability to work independently. Further, the applicant should possess exceptional organizational skills, know how to successfully work with several projects in parallel, and should be able to describe past examples of having developed structured approaches to solving unanticipated and complex problems.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in biostatistics, statistics, or equivalent.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English. 
  • Expertise with at least one statistical program.

Desirable Qualifications

  • Experience of working with Swedish National Healthcare Registers.
  • Knowledge of the international classification of disease (ICD) system.
  • Experience with writing and publishing research articles in English. 
  • Expertise with literate programming, like Sweave or Rmarkdown, or equivalent
  • Excellent data visualisation skills, including the ability to make informative publication quality figures.
  • Excellent organizational skills, including project structuring, version control and reproducibility.
  • Experience of consulting in statistics.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment full of expertise and curiosity. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Our vision is to pursue the development of knowledge about life and to promote a better health for all. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. Karolinska Institutet is a state university, which entitles to several benefits such as extended holiday and generous occupational pension. Employees also have access to our modern gym for free and receive reimbursements for medical care.

Location: Solna

Application

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

Permanent position is initiated by a six months trial period.

Want to make a difference? Join us and contribute to better health for all

Type of employment Permanent position
Contract type Full time
First day of employment According to agreement
Salary Monthly salary
Number of positions 1
Full-time equivalent 100%
City Solna
County Stockholms län
Country Sweden
Reference number 2-3182/2020
Contact
  • Jonas Ludvigsson, jonas.ludvigsson@ki.se
  • Sara Tiste, sara.tiste@ki.se
Union representative
  • Henry Wölling, SEKO, henry.wolling@ki.se
  • Ann Almqvist, SACO, ann.almqvist@ki.se
  • Gunnel Brolin, OFR, gunnel.brolin@ki.se
Published 14.Jul.2020
Last application date 01.Aug.2020 11:59 PM CEST

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