Senior lab manager

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

Contribute to the Core Facility Karolinska MRI Center in a World-unique research hub in BioClinicum in Solna with new premises and a new state-of-art MRI scanner dedicated to preclinical and translational clinical research. We offer an engaging and international research setting where you will have the opportunity to support high-quality research at a top international level. Here, you will work in proximity to world-leading researchers in an environment where multimodal imaging is applied to better understand how the human brain functions.

Your mission

You will constitute a cornerstone of our Core Facility, providing support to our users and building upon a long tradition of successful experimental neuroscience research. During the fall of 2022, we will be moving into our new premises with a new cutting-edge 3 Tesla MRI scanner, GE SIGNA Premier XT, with high-strength gradients (80 mT/m with 200 T/m/s slew rate) and a wide bore (70 cm). You will contribute to setting up new research projects and evolving our research environment.

As the senior lab manager, you will:

Work closely with users, MRI physicists and MRI technologists in the research setting in a service minded manner, including overseeing daily operations and keeping our community updated through different information channels.
Promote research efforts with a focus on supporting study design, experimental setup, data management and analysis.
Interact with IT regarding servers for data storage and processing.
Be responsible for organizing and contributing to courses and workshops on neuroimaging with a focus on structural and functional MRI.

Your profile

Requirements

PhD and eventual previous experience as a postdoctoral research fellow in neuroscience/psychology, data science/biotechnology, or equivalent.
Solid and documented experience in managing and analyzing structural and functional MRI data.
Experience in programming with special consideration given to MATLAB, Python and R.
Independence; you can plan, organize and prioritize your work in an independent and efficient manner.
Service minded and an ability to work well inter-disciplinary (participants, students, junior and senior researchers, clinical staff); you are responsive and communicate clearly.
Good language skills, fluent written and spoken English.

Qualifications

Experience in lab management and user support is an especially important qualification.
Experience in installation and support of technical experimental equipment and organizing data storage.
Experience in developing and performing studies in functional and structural MRI and multimodal integration.
Experience in teaching with a focus on neuroimaging.
Good language skills in written and spoken Swedish.

What do we offer?

A creative 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. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several good benefits through our collective agreement. And you get to practice freely in our modern wellness facilities, where trained staff are on site.

Location: Solna

Application

Welcome to apply at the latest 2022-05-29.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.In this recruitment, you will apply with your CV without a personal letter. Instead, you will answer some questions about why you are applying for the job in the application form.

Permanent position is initiated by a six months trial period.

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