Researcher in human microbiome epidemiology - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

The Center for Translational Microbiome Research is a collaboration between Karolinska Institutet, Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) and Ferring Pharmaceuticals. The center is based on a deep understanding of translational microbiome research and has created a broad technical, biological, clinical and epidemiological platform for studying complex microbiological communities in well-defined human materials.

More info: https://ki.se/en/research/centre-for-translational-microbiome-research-ctmr

Your mission

We are now looking for a researcher to work on increasing and disseminating knowledge in the field of microbiome. Your role will include coordinating epidemiology and oncobioma projects within the Center for Translational Microbiome Research. This is a permanent position, part-time.

Your profile

A person is eligible to be appointed Researcher if he or she has been awarded a Degree of Doctor or has achieved the corresponding scientific competence, as well as documented research after publicly defending his or her doctoral thesis corresponding to qualification as Assistant professor.

The candidate must have relevant expertise in research on microbiome / microbiology, pharmaco-epidemiology, cancer, and gastrointestinal diseases.

The candidate must be motivated and have an established scientific profile within the current subject and methods.

You must have a documented experience of supervising doctoral and postdoctoral students, master methodology around register and microbiome research with epidemiological methods, specifically in pharmacoepidemiology and cancer epidemiology.

Excellent skills in the English language is required, in both speech and writing.

Bases of assessment

We stress research expertise when assessing applicants.

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

An application must contain the following documents in English: Resumé, qualifications and description of planned research, presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet's qualifications portfolio.

Welcome to apply at the latest 2020-09-21

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

Permanent position are initiated by a six months trial period.

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