Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Precision Medicine and Statistical Data Science

Main responsibilities

• Perform advanced statistical analyses of large-scale human genetic, phenotypic, environmental, and registry-based data to investigate resilience and risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
• Develop, adapt, and implement statistical and analytical methods tailored to complex population-based and longitudinal data, including method development driven by specific scientific questions within the ResiliDem project.
• Conduct data preparation, quality assessment, and harmonization of complex datasets from population cohorts, biobanks, and health registries, including national and Nordic resources (e.g., HUNT, HUSK, DemGene) as well as international datasets.
• Integrate genetic data with phenotypic, lifestyle, environmental, and longitudinal registry information to characterize disease heterogeneity, trajectories, and modifiers across the life course.
• Design and apply robust analytical strategies for population-based and longitudinal studies, including model development, sensitivity analyses, and careful interpretation of results.
• Collaborate closely with clinicians, statisticians, geneticists, and other researchers to translate analytical findings into biological and clinical insight relevant for precision medicine.
• Contribute to the scientific development of the ResiliDem project, including study design, analytical strategy development, and dissemination of results through high-quality peer-reviewed publications.

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 as Postdoctoral Fellow, position code 1352 in salary range NOK from 600 000,- to 690 000,-, 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:

• Application letter.
• CV.
• Transcripts and certificates.
• Contact information for 2-3 references.

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

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.