Postdoctoral Researcher in psychiatric epidemiology

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

We seek a new postdoc who will work in the Unit of Integrative Epidemiology at the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet. The main goal of research activities in the Unit is to improve the understanding of the causes and consequences of ill health and disease, with a focus on psychiatric disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer.

The postdoctoral researcher will be part of the group of women’s mental health, and work in close collaboration with Associate Professor Donghao Lu at Karolinska Institutet. Dr. Lu leads a program to understand the underlying biological mechanisms affecting reproductive mood disorders (such as perinatal depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, perimenopausal depression, etc.) and potential health consequences.

The main aim of the proposed projects is to uncover risk factors and health consequences of reproductive mood disorders using Nordic register data and large population-based prospective cohorts. We will take advantage of our register/genotyped data to perform genetically informed designs (for example, sibling comparison and mendelian randomization analysis). The successful applicant will play a key role in these novel projects, and will have rich interactions with senior collaborators across Nordic countries/institutions.

Your mission

We seek an outstanding and innovative postdoc to join our team. We are data-rich, and need a professional-level data scientist to maximize our understanding of the data. This individual should be passionately committed to furthering knowledge of psychiatric epidemiology and to improve women’s mental health. The successful applicant will join our team and conduct research on the register data as well as genetic and other omics data. The successful applicant will be offered travel opportunities to visit other Nordic institutions and opportunities to expand the applicant’s own collaboration. The KI team has a strong track record of promoting early career researchers. The position is two years with potential to extend.

Your profile

To be eligible for employment as a postdoctor a doctoral degree or a foreign degree deemed to be equivalent to a doctoral degree is required. This eligibility requirement must be fulfilled at the latest at the time of the employment decision. It is considered as an advantage if you have completed your doctoral degree within the last three years, if there are special reasons, your degree may have been completed earlier. We also see that the applicant:

Have a PhD in medical science such as epidemiology, biostatistics, computer science, statistics, etc. We will also consider those with PhDs in other areas but who have advanced/relevant data science skills (e.g., machine learning).
Have prior experience in professional analysis of register data, this will be a plus.
Is highly collegial and experienced in working eﬀectively in “team science” contexts.
Possess exceptional organizational skills and know how to multitask.
Have excellent oral and written communication skills in English are required, along with experience with scientific writing.

Applicants will be asked to describe past examples of having developed structured approaches to solving unanticipated and complex problems.

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. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. 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 benefits through our collective agreement.

Location: Unit of Integrative Epidemiology at the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet, Solna

https://ki.se/imm/enheten-for-integrativ-epidemiologi

Application

An employment application must contain the following documents in English or Swedish:

A complete resumé, including date of the thesis defence, title of the thesis, previous academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work
A complete list of publications
A summary of current work (no more than one page)

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

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