Assistant Professor in Precision Psychiatry - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Do you want to contribute to improving human health?

Christian Rück’s research group works to improve the life of individuals with psychiatric conditions through understanding their genesis and developing treatments. A core theme of our research is to develop more accurate prediction models for both the risk of, and also consequences of, psychiatric conditions. We work in an interdisciplinary and clinically integrated research environment at Karolinska Flemingsberg where you have the possibility and ambition to contribute to quality research at international top-level.

Your mission

You will be working in precision psychology/psychiatry, having a leading role in different studies within two major areas of research: Prediction of outcomes after psychotherapy, and suicide prediction. You will have supervisor duties for PhD students in the research group as well as managerial responsibilities with respect to ongoing interdisciplinary projects and affiliated staff. The projects will require both your clinical expertise as a licensed psychologist/psychiatrist and statistical analysis skills that span from traditional statistics/epidemiology to data science methods including machine learning. 

The new assistant professor should drive their research line independently focused on predictive modelling for psychiatric patients using the large, multimodal datasets (including clinical, registry, and genetic data) that are collated and accessible. You are expected to seek and obtain funding, handle complex data, and successfully drive projects to publication. You are also expected to pursue independent projects, write scientific articles in international journals, present research results at international scientific conferences and also for society, write and apply for your own grants and tutor students.

The employment as Assistant Professor is time limited for 5 years with the right to apply for promotion to Senior Lecturer.

Eligibility requirements

Those eligible for employment as an Assistant Professor are individuals who have been awarded a PhD or attained equivalent research competence. Preference should be given to those who were awarded a PhD or attained equivalent research competence no more than five years prior to the expiry of the application period for the position as assistant professor.

Those who have been awarded a PhD or attained equivalent research competence earlier may however be considered if special grounds exist. 

Special grounds refer to:

• parental leave,
• positions of trust in trade union organizations
• mandatory service in the total defense forces
• long-term illness
• general medical internship (maximum 24 months)
• specialist medical residency for clinically active professionals (maximum 24 months).

Ground, dates and extent must be clearly specified in the application and verified with relevant documentation.

Being a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with clinical experience of internet-delivered treatments is required.

Since the candidate will communicate with both international collaborators, national collaborators, and also clinicians and their patients, both excellent Swedish and English (written and verbal) is required.

It is beneficial for the position to have produced several scientific publications, obtained national competitive research grants as main applicant, and show commitment to supervision through being main supervisor at both the MSc and PhD student level.

As researchers tied to our group has begun to study lifestyle risk factors and somatic outcomes in psychiatric patients, previous research experience in behavioural medicine and cardiology is beneficial.

Experience with Swedish registry research is required.

Bases of assessment

• The candidate will be evaluated based on her/his previous research experience of relevance to the tasks for the position, motivation and ability to collaborate.
• Special emphasis will be placed on scientific skill and experience with different types of studies (cohort studies, predictive modelling designs, clinical trials).
• Scientific expertise will be assessed through previous research experience and production, received funding for research and experience in supervising students.
• The assessment will also be based on the proposed research plan.
• Knowledge and experience of regulations for Swedish register research and routines (obtaining ethics approval and databases) is an advantage.
• Experience of working with different large databases including linked data from multiple sources is an advantage.

What do we offer?

A creative, international and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. 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. 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 good benefits through our collective agreement. 

Location:  Flemingsberg

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Application

We prefer that Your application is written in English, but You can also apply in Swedish. An application must contain the following documents: Resumé, qualifications and description of planned research, presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s qualifications portfolio.

Welcome to apply at the latest May 26th 2022.

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

Particular assessment for promotion to Senior Lecturer

An Assistant Professor employed in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance Chapter 4 Section 12a shall be promoted to Senior Lecturer if he or she is eligible for an employment as Senior Lecturer in accordance with the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet and is assessed to be suitable for such employment in accordance with the assessment criteria that KI has decided should be applied when being promoted to Senior Lecturer. The assessment criteria stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet that was valid at the time of appointment as Assistant Professor will be applied when applying for promotion to Senior Lecturer. Current assessment criteria is found here. Such promotion results in a permanent position as Senior Lecturer.

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