Research Associate/Fellow in Health Informatics and Analytics (fixed term)

Location: University Park

Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate/Fellow specialising in Research Software Engineering and Data Science, to work in School of Medicine, University of Nottingham.

The role is funded as part of the Biomedical Research Centre Nottingham Program. The overall aim of the project is to provide data analytics support, software development and documentation for federated tools implemented within the program; this is a highly interdisciplinary project involving clinicians, research software engineers, bioinformaticians and data scientists. This post relates to a work package that will be using data science and health informatics to make the datasets within the program findable, discoverable accessible, interoperable (FAIR).

The project will involve understanding the existing federated tooling ecosystem, documenting its use and applying data analytics to the biomedical datasets collected.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in machine learning algorithms development and evaluation as well as research software engineering.  Strong team-work and communication skills are essential.

This is a full-time post (36.25 hours), offered on a fixed-term contract of 3 years. 

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr Grazziela Figueredo ([email protected] ) or Dr Philip Quinlan ([email protected] ). Please note that applications sent directly to these email addresses will not be accepted.

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