Postdoctoral Researcher in <subject area>

Would you like to contribute to improve environmental health for women and their infants?

If so, join our research group in reproductive epidemiology which consists of clinicians, researchers, postdocs and PhD-students conducting studies related to pregnancy, delivery and the neonatal period using national population-based health and quality registers and climate data. We are an expanding and exciting research group with a welcoming workplace and inspiring biostatistical assignments for improvement of maternal and infant health and collaboration with the unit of environmental epidemiology at Institute of Environmental Medicine (https://ki.se/en/imm/unit-of-environmental-epidemiology )

As a postdoctoral researcher you will be involved in researching maternal and infant health effects of high temperature. Your role will include coordination and epidemiological research output for an EU financed project: HIGH Horizons (Heat Indicators in Global Health; https://www.high-horizons.eu) which is a multi-country and multi-institutional collaboration project that includes several workstream to assess the impact of heat on maternal and infant health and health worker performance as well as a mitigation package of interventions. Your area of responsibility includes assessing the impact of heat on maternal, perinatal and neonatal adverse outcomes using the national Swedish pregnancy register and other data sources in Europe and Africa. The work will include, linkage of climate and health outcome data, data analyses and manuscript preparation in collaboration with other researchers across the relevant work package. The postdoctoral researcher is also expected to undertake a limited amount of teaching and supervise students.

Qualified to be employed as a post-doctor is one who has obtained a doctorate or has equivalent scientific competence. Applicants who have not completed a doctorate at the end of the application period may also apply, provided that all requirements for a completed degree are met before the (intended) date of employment. This must be substantiated by the applicant's main supervisor, director or equivalent. Eligibility for this position includes a PhD degree within medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics or related field, formal education in epidemiology or biostatistics and experience in epidemiological research. The successful applicant has a high level of proficiency in statistical methods applicable to epidemiology and be an independent user of statistical software (preferably SAS, STATA or R). You are organized, responsible, enjoy working in a team, and have demonstrated oral and written fluency in English. Merits include Swedish proficiency, biomedical knowledge including maternal and infant health, spatial modelling and GIS knowledge, short term designs within environmental epidemiology (time series and case cross over designs) as well as experience with big data sets.

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

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.

The position is located within the Department of Medicine, Solna. The department consists of twelve divisions and each division consists of several research groups. The position is located within the research group of reproductive epidemiology which is a young and rapidly growing group at the Clinical Epidemiology Division and includes 40 professionals, including researchers, postdocs and PhD-students. Our research focuses on risk factors and interventions during pregnancy, childbirth and the neonatal period as well as outcomes for mother and infant. We have a strong collaboration with clinical departments, including paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology and other national and international research groups as well as other organizations. The group has extensive experience in research in perinatal outcomes using advanced methods in biostatistics and clinical epidemiology. Please see the research group’s homepage at Karolinska Institutet for more information on our research (https://ki.se/en/meds/kep-reproductive-epidemiology).

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

• 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)

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