Postdoctoral position - DATATOOLS4HEART

Friday 20th September 2024

Contact Email for the Job Positing paloma.fernandez@ub.edu
Organization University of Barcelona, BCN-AIM Lab
Location Barcelona, Spain
Title Postdoctoral position - DATATOOLS4HEART
URL https://seu.ub.edu/documentPublic/download/591826
Closing date Oct 02, 2024
Description We are offering a Postdoctoral Position at the University of Barcelona, within the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine lab (www.bcn-aim.org), to develop new trustworthy AI solutions for
personalised medicine approach to tailor the care models in the field of cardiovascular diseases.
Concretely, we offer:
- A research position in beautiful Barcelona and its Mediterranean climate.
- Research experience within a prestigious university (1st position in Spain).
- Cutting-edge research in AI for healthcare in one of the most dynamic
research groups in Europe (12 active projects including an ERC grant).
- An international research environment by joining a multi-cultural team
representing all continents.
- Opportunities to collaborate with international and inter-disciplinary
collaborators as part of the European projects.
- Support in career development (e.g. grant applications, supervision of PhD
students).
- Travelling opportunities to scientific events, project meetings and
international stays.
- Freedom to independently conduct research and contribute with own
ideas.
- Flexible working hours, with possibility to telework.
- Competitive salary equivalent to Assistant or Associate Professor at the
University of Barcelona, depending on experience.
- Contract duration 1 year, extendable until the end of the project, with the
possibility to extend the contract as part of other grants within the lab.

The requirements for the position are:
- PhD degree in an area pertinent to the project, such as applied
mathematics, statistics, machine learning, data science, medical imaging,
and/or biomedical informatics
- Federated learning
- Machine/deep learning
- Multi-source data integration
- Interpretability and visualisation
- Uncertainty estimation
- Excellent programming skills in Python and/or C++, Matlab
- Excellent English, both oral and written
- Enthusiasm about research and medical applications of AI.
- Aptitude to work independently, lead project deliverables and meet
deadlines.
- Good team spirit and participation to the lab’s scientific life.
- Aptitude to collaborate with local and international project partners
(including technical and clinical collaborators).
Even if you do not meet all the requirements listed, we still encourage you to apply
as we believe in considering diverse experiences and perspectives. We are also
committed to fostering gender diversity within our organization.