Doctoral Research Fellowship in Multi-Omics at Centre for Precision Psychiatry

Project description

The available position is part of the Back2Future project, entitled Multimodal metabolic markers for mechanisms and predictive trajectories of Alzheimer’s disease, funded by the Research Council of Norway's TOPPFORSK programme and led by Professor Srdjan Djurovic. The project aims to identify heritable, early metabolic and protein biomarkers in blood that can predict the risk of Alzheimer's disease decades before symptoms appear, by combining metabolomics and proteomics with genetics, brain MRI, cognition and health registry data from large Norwegian and Nordic cohorts.

To achieve this goal, the researcher hired for this doctoral research fellowship position will work with the project's datasets, analytical methodology, and computational tools, including state-of-the-art data storage and research infrastructure hosted at the Services for Sensitive Data (TSD).

The PhD fellow will work with large-scale analytical tools to integrate multi-omics with brain imaging data to identify early biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease risk and contribute to development of a personalized prediction algorithm.

The duration of appointment is 3 years and is available from January 2027, with possibility of a flexible start date.

Main responsibilities

• Develop a research plan within the scope of this project for a PhD research program
• Participate in literature searching, data analysis and interpretation
• Write research articles to be published in peer-reviewed academic journals

The candidate will work both independently and as part of a team, under supervision of the group leader, and will be encouraged to take an active part in the Centre’s daily activities, depending on needs, interests, and qualifications.

The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree. The research fellow must fulfill the requirements of and take part in the approved PhD program at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo and is expected to complete the project within the set fellowship period.

The applicant must, in collaboration with her/his supervisor, within three months after employment, work out a complete project description to be attached to the application for admission to the doctoral program. For more information: Doctoral degree: PhD in medicine and health sciences - Faculty of Medicine

We offer

• Exciting and meaningful tasks in an organization with an important societal mission, contributing to knowledge development, education, and enlightenment that promote sustainable, fair, and knowledge-based societal development.
• A pleasant and stimulating work environment.
• Good welfare schemes.
• Opportunity of up to 1.5 hours a week of exercise during working hours. A workplace with good development and career opportunities.
• Membership in the Statens Pensjonskasse, which is one of Norway's best pension schemes with beneficial mortgages and good insurance schemes.
• Salary in position code 1017 in salary range NOK 580 000 - 630 000, depending on competence and experience.
• From the salary, 2 percent is deducted in statutory contributions to the State Pension Fund.

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Application

Your application should include:

• Your application should include:
• Application letter including motivation for applying for the position, and a short plan for project design can be included.
• CV (summarizing education, relevant work experience etc.)
• List of publications and academic work that the applicant wishes to be considered by the evaluation committee.
• Certified copies of the original Bachelor and Master’s diplomas, transcripts of records.
• Contact information for 2-3 references.

Your CV must be entered in Jobbnorge’s CV form and cannot be submitted only as an attachment. This requirement is intended to ensure correct documentation and record-keeping in accordance with the Public Administration Act, Section 15.

Application with attachments must be submitted via our recruitment system Jobbnorge, click "Apply for this job".

When applying for the position, we ask you to retrieve your education results from Vitnemålsportalen.no. If your education results are not available through Vitnemålsportalen, we ask you to upload copies of your transcripts or grades. Please note that all documentation must be in English or a Scandinavian language.