Research assistant - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply
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Karolinska Institutet, MEB
The Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics conducts research in epidemiology and biostatistics across a broad range of areas within biomedical science. The department is among the largest of its type in Europe and has especially strong research profiles in psychiatric, cancer, reproductive, pediatric, pharmaco, genetic, and geriatric epidemiology, eating disorders, precision medicine, and biostatistics.
Part of the success of our department is due to our collaborative spirit where one factor is that researchers at the Department share and co-finance common resources (e.g., IT and an applied biostatistics group). The department is situated at campus Solna. Further information can be found at http://ki.se/en/meb
Division
A two month research assistant position (with possibility for extension) is available within the biostatistics group at MEB, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. The biostatistics group at MEB, KI 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
Duties will include the statistical analysis of epidemiological and clinical data using some different study designs and statistical models. There will be some methodological work which will be carried out in connection to the applications, which use data from national registers.
Entry requirements:
Educational background
MSc in statistics/biostatistics/applied mathematics or a related field, with methodological and computational components (a PhD would be considered favourably).
Experience and knowledge:
Strong competence in the use of statistical software and the development of software tools in Stata or R. Experience in survival analysis and mixed effects modeling survival analysis would be ideal.
Personal Characteristics
Well-informed and curious; statistical reasoning; commitment to learning new skills; ability to collaborate/communicate with researchers in various disciplines.
Application process
The application is to be submitted in Varbi recruitment system.
| Type of employment | Temporary position (shorter than 3 months) |
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| Contract type | Full time |
| First day of employment | 2019-09-01 |
| Salary | Månadslön |
| City | Stockholm |
| County | Stockholms län |
| Country | Sweden |
| Reference number | 2-3626/2019 |
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| Published | 25.Jun.2019 |
| Last application date | 01.Jul.2019 11:59 PM CEST |