Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuroepidemiology

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

Welcome to apply for a postdoctoral position in the Neuroepidemiology group at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, led by Dr. Katharina Fink and Associate Professor Kyla McKay. Our mission is to advance knowledge of the causes and consequences of neuroinflammatory diseases and improve the quality of life for individuals living with these chronic conditions. Our primary focus is on multiple sclerosis, but we also conduct research into myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD), narcolepsy and epilepsy. The group leverages nationwide linked health administrative and disease-specific clinical registries to apply innovative epidemiological methods to characterize chronic neuroinflammatory diseases. Our team consists of an international group of experts, including epidemiologists and clinician scientists, all dedicated to understanding and combating neuroinflammatory diseases.

Your mission

We are looking for 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 these data. The postdoctoral researcher should be passionately committed to furthering knowledge of neuro- and perinatal epidemiology. The main goal of our projects is to investigate factors affecting pregnancy and neonatal outcomes in neuroinflammatory conditions, such as MOGAD, NMOSD, MS and narcolepsy and monitoring the impact of treatments and identify risk factors affecting disease onset and progression. We will benefit from our national health and administrative registries.

The successfull candidate will play a key role in these new projects as well as facilitating our new case-control study to identify risk factors for neurological diseases and also conduct research on registry data. Our team has a strong track record of promoting early career researchers. The position is for two years with the possibility of extension.

Your profile

• Applicants should 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).
• Prior experience in professional analysis of register data will be a plus.
• Applicants should be highly collegial and experienced in working effectively in “team science” contexts. Successful postdocs possess exceptional organizational skills and know how to multitask.
• Applicants will be asked to describe past examples of having developed structured approaches to solving unanticipated and complex problems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English are required, along with scientific writing.

To be eligible for employment as a postdoctor, a PhD or a foreign degree deemed to be equivalent to a Swedish PhD, is required. This eligibility requirement must be fulfilled at the latest at the time of the employment decision. Completion of your doctoral degree within the last three years is considered an advantage. If there are special reasons, your degree may have been completed earlier.

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: Solna

Read more about the Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Read more about the research group you will be part of 

Application

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

• PhD certificate
• 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)

Welcome to apply at the latest 11 March 2025.

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

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