Research assistant in clinical mycology

The Department of Laboratory Medicine consists of six divisions in which both research and teaching are conducted. The department is involved in advanced and basic research as well as clinical and epidemiological research. All departments operate in close contact with clinicians at Karolinska University Hospital. The department's role is to transfer and refine medical knowledge to healthcare in collaboration between academia, healthcare and industry. The department's educational activities contribute to most programs and courses within KI's total educational offerings.

Volkan Özenci's research group is currently looking for a research assistant. The position is a  fixed-term employment at full-time for 6 months, with the possibility of extension.

Main tasks will be within research on microbiological diagnostics of severe fungal infectious diseases such as candidemia, C. auris, including sample collection, clinical verification of methods, including direct identification and resistance testing of pathogenic fungi. It also includes method development work, quality assurance work and processing and analysis of research data. Various administrative tasks may occur e.g. inventory, registration and inventory labeling.

You have education or work experience in the field of medicine or equivalent. Experience of clinical diagnostics of fungi, specialist training in clinical mycology, postgraduate training, work in research, especially identification of fungi with molecular diagnostic methods, resistance determination of fungi with different methods including the EUCAST reference method and clinical experience in the clinical microbiology laboratory is highly meritorious. We would like you to have a high level of English in both speech and writing.

The work involves daily contact with many different categories of staff, which makes it important that you have a good service spirit, a positive attitude, good cooperation and communication skills. In this recruitment, we will place great emphasis on personal qualities and personal suitability. 

A creative, international and inspiring environment filled with competence and curiosity. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Our vision is to drive the development of knowledge about life and promote better health for all. Here we conduct successful medical research and have the largest range of medical education programs in Sweden. As a university, Karolinska Institutet is a government agency. This means that you get good benefits through our collective agreement. Employees at KI are also offered the opportunity to work flexibly. This means that if the organization you work for allows it, you can work part of your working hours remotely. You can also exercise freely in our modern wellness facilities where trained staff are on site.  

Location: Huddinge

Welcome with your application no later than February 8.

The application must be made via the recruitment system Varbi. In this recruitment, you apply with your CV without a personal letter. The application form will instead ask you to answer a few questions about why you are applying for the job. 

For permanent employment, Karolinska Institutet applies a 6-month probationary period.