As a national hub for molecular biosciences in Sweden, SciLifeLab develops and maintains unique research infrastructure, services and data resources for life science. The overall aim of SciLifeLab is to facilitate cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary life science research and promote its translation to the benefit of society. About 200 research groups, 1500 researchers and 40 national infrastructure units are associated with SciLifeLab, with two main centres located in Stockholm and Uppsala, but with national SciLifeLab units at all major Swedish universities.
The SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS ) is a 12-year initiative that focuses on data-driven research, within fields essential for improving people’s lives, detecting and treating diseases, protecting biodiversity and creating sustainability. The program will train and recruit the next generation of data-driven life scientists and create strong and globally competitive computational and data science capabilities in Swedish life science. The program aims to strengthen national collaborations between universities, bridge the research communities of life and data sciences, and create partnerships with industry, healthcare and other national and international actors.
SciLifeLab and the DDLS partner universities consider advanced technical staff to be essential for the future of life science, and a central part of the DDLS program. We are now expanding our national bioinformatics and data infrastructures with more than 20 permanent staff members to support Swedish scientists performing data-driven research in the Life Sciences. These positions will help establish four new national Data Science Nodes across Sweden, each one primarily focusing on one of the four strategic research areas within the program (Cell and molecular biology, Precision medicine and diagnostics, Evolution and biodiversity, Epidemiology and biology of infections). The Data Science Nodes will be located in connection to strong local research environments at leading Swedish universities, with the staff still fully integrated with SciLifeLab’s unique national teams at the Bioinformatics platform (NBIS ) and the SciLifeLab Data Centre .
As a permanent staff member in the DDLS program, you will provide world-leading bioinformatics support, set up outstanding computational research and development environments, or develop unique data services for FAIR data and Open Science, targeting global user communities. You will help accelerate the data-driven paradigm shift in life sciences, and support researchers at the global frontline across a wide range of research fields, and aid the establishment of advanced training programs for a new generation of life science researchers. You will work closely together with researchers, data engineers, data stewards and system developers in a rapidly growing, dynamic and progressive environment with Open Science at the core. We are now looking for outstanding competences, including:
- Systems developers
- Data engineers
- Data stewards
- AI and Machine Learning experts
- Bioinformatics experts in fields including (but not limited to) clinical molecular profiling and diagnostics, single-cell and spatial omics, evolution, environmental omics, immunology and host-interaction systems, and structural bioinformatics.
Join our emerging Data Science Nodes and play a key role in data-driven life science! For more information and links to each individual position, please visit our recruitment website: https://www.scilifelab.se/dp-dsn-recruitment