Postdoc Position (f/m/d) in “Building Healthcare Resilience Against Cyber-Attacks"

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association creates and imparts knowledge for the society and the environment. It is our goal to make significant contributions to mastering the global challenges of mankind in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. For this, about 9.800 employees of KIT cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in research, academic education, and innovation.

We are looking for the Institut für Informationssicherheit und Verlässlichkeit (KASTEL) as soon as possible limited for 2 years for a

Postdoc Position (f/m/d) in “Building Healthcare Resilience Against Cyber-Attacks”

Being “The Research University in the Helmholtz Association”, KIT creates and imparts knowledge for society and the environment. It is the objective to make signi­ficant contri­bu­tions to the global challenges in the fields of energy, mobility, and infor­mation. For this, about 9,000 employees cooperate in a broad range of disci­plines in the natural sciences, engi­neering sciences, economics, and the humani­ties and social sciences. KIT prepares its students for respons­ible tasks in society, industry, and science by offering research-based study programs. Innovation efforts at KIT build a bridge between important scientific findings and their appli­cation for the benefit of society, economic prosperity, and the pre­serva­tion of our natural basis of life. KIT is one of the German universi­ties of excellence.

The Institute of Information Security and Dependability (KASTEL) offers a fully funded research assistant position in the Helmholtz project “Building Healthcare Resilience Against Cyber-Attacks” at the earliest possible date.

In recent years, the number and severity of cyber-attacks against healt­hcare providers and hospitals world­wide have increased signi­ficantly, resulting in blocked access to patient data and critical services, appoint­ment cancella­tions, and closed emer­gency depart­ments. This Helmholtz project is dedicated to making an entire hospital net­work more resilient to future cyber threats by developing a comprehen­sive and inter­disci­plinary approach. This project aims to use operations research methods to support decisions on selecting and imple­menting a range of appropriate prepa­ration and response measures for an inter­dependent hospital network to become resilient in the event of cyber-attacks.

Your main tasks and responsibilities within this project are:

• Conduct academic research that will lead to high-quality scientific publi­cations in the fields of opera­tions research and business analytics
• Contribute to projects with academic and industrial partners, e.g. KASTEL, Imperial College London, hospitals in Germany, etc.
• Assist in the teaching activities of the depart­ment
  

Personal qualification

• We welcome candidates with a PhD in any field that has a quanti­tative focus, including but not limited to operations research, business analytics, data analytics, mathematics, and related disciplines
• Expertise in stochastic programming or robust optimization Affinity to data
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience with databases desirable
• Ability to collaborate with others and work independently, take initiative and show enthusiasm
• Good oral and written communication skills in English, German not require
  

We are looking for candidates with a strong drive and keen interest in conducting meaningful and innovative research.

Become a member of staff of the only German University of Excellence that conducts large-scale re­search on the national level. Work under excellent working conditions in an inter­national envi­ronment and be active in research and academic education for our future. Benefit from spe­cific training when starting your job and from a wide range of further quali­fication offers. Use our flexible working time models (flexitime, work from home), our sports and leisure offers, as well as our child and holiday care services. We also pay a share of EUR 25/month in the Job Ticket Baden-Württemberg. Enjoy a large variety of dishes, snacks, and beverages at our canteens.

We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.

Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.

Please send us your application with curriculum vitae, cover letter, and transcript of records online  until June 30, 2024 using the vacancy number 233/2024 to Mrs Katja Wenz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Human Resources, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany. For further information, please contact Dr. Emilia Grass, email: [email protected] .

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