EarlyCause H2020 Project Manager

The Role:

A Project Manager position to coordinate the operational, administrative and management activities of the EarlyCause project is offered at the University of Barcelona, within the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine lab (www.bcn-aim.org ). The Project Manager will generally provide the ‘back office’ services required for successful project completion and will support the Project Coordinator in the overall coordination of the project.

Concretely, the Project Manager will:

• Monitor the implementation of the project and the timely reporting and delivery of all project commitments to the EC.
• Inform and advise project partners on financial and administrative regulations.
• Support the Project Coordinator in planning, producing, collecting and reviewing the deliverables and outcomes to ensure their timely delivery.
• Provide management tools (e.g., guides, templates, etc.) for the consortium.
• Track all project related costs in collaboration with the “Oficina de Projectes Internacionals de Recerca – OPIR” (namely Fundació Bosch i Gimpera): registration and processing of the expenses of the group members, and preparation of the documentation for the audits of the projects.
• Schedule project meetings, prepare agendas and circulate reference materials for the meetings and writing the minutes.
• Engage in communication tasks related to the EarlyCause project. This includes content generation, as well as the management of online channels.
• Support the BCN-AIM team members in their day-to-day communication, management and scientific activities.
• Participate in the writing of scientific reports and deliverables.

The research projects:

You will join our exposome AI team as part of ongoing projects such as EarlyCause (www.earlycause.eu ) and LongITools (www.longitools.org ) and, funded by the European Commission. In these projects, we are developing new trustworthy AI methods for predictive modelling of depression and cardio-metabolic disease from multi-source biomedical data (including clinical, biological, imaging and environmental data). In particular, we are interested in new AI models which, once applied in real-world practice, will be fair across population groups, generalisable across clinical sites, robust against data variations, explainable for clinical use, and respectful of data privacy. Hence, we are investigating a wide range of approaches, including transfer learning, bias correction, domain adaptation, generative modelling, uncertainty estimation, explainable AI and federated learning. Should you join our team, you will collaborate with several technical and clinical partners within Europe (e.g. in the Netherlands, the UK, Finland, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Poland).

The group:

The successful candidate will join the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Lab (www.bcn-aim.org ), which is an integral part of the University of Barcelona’s Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. It is a young and dynamic research lab, highly active in international projects, and composed of >25 enthusiastic academics, researchers, students and research managers, with expertise in data science, machine/deep learning, biomedical informatics, trustworthy AI, and health-related applications. The research group has an established track record in coordination and participation in European and international projects (> 10 million Euros over the last 5 years) in biomedical data science and medical AI (e.g. EuCanImage, euCanSHare, EarlyCause, LongITools, HealthyCloud, RadioVal, DataTools4Heart, Youth-GEMs, HappyMums, AIMIX, AI4HF).

The institution:

The University of Barcelona (UB), founded in 1450, is one of the oldest universities in Spain. It comprises a student body of 84,370 and 4,548 research staff members. With 73 undergraduate programs, 273 graduate programs and 48 doctorate programs, UB is the largest university in Barcelona and Catalonia. The UB is ranked the first Spanish university according to several rankings (QS World University Rankings 2022, Shanghai Ranking 2022). It is particularly interested in fostering international relations and, for many years, has managed an average of 150 European projects per year. The University of Barcelona is part of the prestigious League of European Universities Research (LERU).

-  Adequacy of the CV (maximum 70)

- Letter of motivation (maximum 30)