Postdoctoral Researcher in medicine: Neuroimaging and multi-omics in vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

You will join a multidisciplinary research environment focused on understanding the heterogeneity and complexity of aging and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. This research position has a strong focus on advanced imaging techniques in combination with multi-omics approaches, including spatial transcriptomics and proteomics. Independent work is combined with collaborations within and outside the research group. Own ideas and initiatives are encouraged.

Your mission

We are seeking a postdoctoral scientist with strong expertise in radiology, neuroscience, and programming to contribute to the research activities of Giuseppe Barisano’s group. The position focuses on integrating radiographic, histopathology, clinical, and multi-omics data, including spatial transcriptomics and proteomics, to investigate vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia.

The successful candidate will combine independent research with close collaboration across a multidisciplinary team. Key responsibilities include developing and applying reproducible computational pipelines for imaging and omics data, supporting data processing and statistical analyses, contributing to scientific publications and grant applications, and gradually initiating independent research projects. The role also involves maintaining and advancing the group’s computational infrastructure, including data management systems, analysis workflows, Linux/HPC environments, and reproducible computing setups to support large-scale data analyses. 

Your profile

To be eligible for employment as a postdoctoral researcher, 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.

The person we are looking for is a highly motivated researcher with strong quantitative, computational, and programming skills, a solid background in radiology, computational biology or bioinformatics, and a demonstrated research interest in vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia. We are looking for a collaborative and communicative researcher who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment, this is very important as the role involves being part of a group.

Required qualifications:

• A PhD in neuroscience, medical imaging, computational biology/medicine, bioinformatics, or a closely related field.
• A strong publication record in peer-reviewed journals, with demonstrated research interest in vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia.
• Documented experience in imaging data analysis (MRI, CT, PET), including advanced statistical and computational modeling.
• Strong programming skills in R and/or Python, with experience in large-scale code-based data analysis.
• Experience working in Linux and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.

Meritorious qualifications:

• A medical doctorate degree and clinical experience, particularly in radiology and/or neurology.
• Experience with multi-omics integration, machine learning, and/or biological data visualization.
• Experience contributing to collaborative projects involving both computational and experimental researchers. 

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: Flemingsberg

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Application

An employment application must contain the following documents in English:

• 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)

KI applies individual and differentiated salary setting in accordance with our collective agreements RALS and RALS-T

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

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