The Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Splaiul Independentei 296, Bucuresti, Romania, 060031, is looking to hire one research assistant as a biostatistician in aging research. The successful candidate will then join the Computational Biology of Ageing Research Group in the Department of Bioinformatics and Structural Biochemistry.
Job description:
The post is funded by a EU POC-A1-A1.1.4-E- 2015 Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014-2020 award, for the development of a „Multi-omics prediction system for prioritization of gerontological interventions” (GERONTOMICS). The duration of the post is one year, extendable for up to 2 years, based on satisfactory performance. The selected candidate will work full-time in the project.
GERONTOMICS aims to use a systems biology approach to combine data from different “omics” levels (e.g.: genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic, etc) and from various models of ageing in order to create a large-scale data-driven analysis and prediction platform for experimental interventions in gerontology.
The project will involve both computational aspects (data aggregation and processing, multidimensional data analysis, network-based methods, systems theory approaches, etc) as well as wet-lab experiments (some of the predicted interventions will be tested in vivo), with a highly multi-disciplinary team.
Candidates should be highly motivated, with a PhD (or studying for the PhD title) in Statistics (or a similar/related field – ex: Math, Computer Science, etc), with excellent command of the English language. Additional competencies in biology of ageing are an advantage but are not required.
Job responsibilities:
The research assistant will be involved in various bioinformatics analyses and will be tasked with carrying out the statistical analyses and collaborating on a series of data mining and machine learning algorithms.
As a biostatistician the candidate’s responsibility will be to:
While not the main focus of the post, being in an interdisciplinary team will also offer the successful candidate the opportunity to train in other fields than his/her own (e.g. gerontology, theoretical and experimental biology, bioinformatics, computer science, machine learning and systems biology).
The post will require the succesful candidate to be able to present his/her work to the rest of the group and occasionally might also require him/her to attend and present at national and international meetings. Depending on the existing skill set and the candidate’s career goals, attendance to various training courses could also be available.
Skill requirements:
Optional but desirable skills:
Eligibility requirements:
Career stage:
Mid-stage biostatistician 2-7 years experience – 1 position
For any formal or informal inquiries (e.g. discussing ideas of fun team building activities), prospective students and postdocs are encouraged to contact me by e-mail at: robi [dot] tacutu [at] gmail [dot] com.
For eligibility, the job application must include the following documents (additional documents will be required when signing the contract):
It should be noted, that upon succesful selection, the candidate might be required to provide additional documents (eg: copy of official ID, all academic diplomas, criminal records, etc) or autorized translations of these (if the official document language is not Romanian).
Job applications should be sent before 16:00, 22.09.2018, by e-mail at robi [dot] tacutu [at] gmail [dot] com or directly at the Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei, nr 296, sector 6, room 307 (Human resources), for the attention of Dr. Robi Tacutu. We estimate that job interviews will take place within the next week after the job deadline, at the Institute’s location (in special cases, skype interviews can also be arranged).
Job first posted on: 22.08.2018 [job previously advertised on 15.02.2018] Group’s webpage: www.aging.biochim.ro; www.aging-research.group
