Postdoctoral Researcher in Biostatistics - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Division
A postdoctoral research position is available within the biostatistics group at the department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. The successful applicant will work closely with a subgroup of researchers (a Senior lecturer and two doctoral students in biostatistics and one post doctoral researcher in image analysis) that work on the development of (computer-intensive) statistical methods for studying the natural history modeling of breast cancer and patient survival.

The biostatistics group comprises 4 professors, 3 senior lecturers, 5 PhD-level statisticians, 4 masters-level statisticians, and 7 doctoral students. The group is involved in a wide variety of research projects, including population-based cohort and case-control studies, twin and family studies, survival analyses, predictive modeling, genetic epidemiology and bioinformatics.

Duties
As well as statistical methodology development the project will include analyses of data from large, detailed studies of breast cancer and mammography screening (with large-scale molecular and image data). There will be ample opportunities to collaborate with researchers in cancer epidemiology, as well as biostatistics, within the same department, and the successful applicant will also be encouraged to participate in a computational statistics project as part of a cross-university collaboration within an e-science program.

Entry requirements
Qualified to be employed as a postdoctor is one who has obtained a doctorate no more than three years before the last date of application, the term can be extended under special circumstances. The position requires a university degree in mathematics/statistics and a PhD degree with focus on statistics, biostatistics, statistical image analysis or a closely related field. The ideal applicant should be experienced in methodology development and have a strong interest in applications.

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

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

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