Applied statistician - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

The Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB) is among the largest departments of epidemiology in Europe. In 2021, researchers at our department published more than 700 papers with an average journal impact factor of 9.

Your mission

The gastrointestinal epidemiology group at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB) is now looking for an applied statistician. Our research group consists of biostatisticians, epidemiologists, clinicians, and a database administrator. We are seeking an applied statistician to join our research group to collaborate on a large-scale analysis project using gastrointestinal biopsy register data. MEB and Karolinska Institutet is a highly active and respected research environment, with ample opportunities for career development and personal growth. MEB has a large biostatistics group, which consists of around 40 statisticians with varying backgrounds, working both with applied problems and method development.

Sweden is renowned for its world-class nationwide health registers. Based on these registers, Swedish researchers have produced outstanding papers and advanced our understanding in medicine.  The applied statistician will work with a cohort called ESPRESSO (Epidemiology Strengthened by histoPathology Reports in Sweden) under the supervision of Professor Jonas Ludvigsson https://staff.ki.se/people/jonas-ludvigsson ). Additional information can be found on the ESPRESSO web site: ki.se/en/meb/espresso.

The position requires a high level of competence in statistics and  data analysis with the following key duties:  (#1 and #2 are particularly important)

• Data manipulation, and preparing files for statistical research. It is an advantage if you have previous experiences from working with the Swedish national healthcare registers.
• Implementation, interpretation, and reporting of results from both standard statistical methods and more advanced statistical issues, such as handling of missing data, causal inference, competing risks, and longitudinal data analysis.
• Consultation and discussion with clinical collaborators on research questions.
• Exploratory and descriptive data analysis, data visualization to clearly communicate results
• Description of statistical methods used in an analysis and in general collaborating on the writing and editing of scientific articles and presentations.

Also do not hesitate to contact current head statistician for ESPRESSO bjorn.roelstraete@ki.se if you have questions about the content/duties of the work.

Your profile

The applicant should be highly collegial, and be able to communicate well in a team and have the ability to work independently. Further, the applicant know how to successfully work with several projects in parallel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree in biostatistics, statistics, or equivalent
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• The applicant has expertise in R, SAS, STATA, SPSS or equivalent statistical software. Expertise in R is considered an advantage

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience with writing and publishing research articles in English
• Expertise with literate programming, like Sweave or Rmarkdown, or equivalent
• Excellent data visualisation skills, including the ability to make informative publication quality figures.
• Excellent organizational skills, including project structuring, version control and reproducibility
• Experience of consulting in statistics 

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. it is a state university, which entitles you to several good benefits.

Location: Solna

To learn more about our research, you can search PubMed for "ludvigsson jf [author]" or watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yr3JrM1q7k

Application

Welcome to apply at the latest 5 of August, 2022.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system. In this recruitment, you will apply with:

• your CV,
• a personal letter. In your application letter, please also describe past examples of having developed structured approaches to solving unanticipated and complex problems.
• a complete list of publications (with number of citations (according to Web of Science) and impact factor.

As part of the application, also submit the solution to a statistical problem. The instructions and the data you are going to use can be downloaded from the GitHub page below. Upload the solution to the problem together with your other documents to KI´s applications page (not to the GitHub page). Name your statistics document "statistics-celiac-doc".

Link to statistical task: https://github.com/bjoroeKI/Celiac 

This is a permanent position, initiated by a six months’ trial period.

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