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Research Fellow:

Employer
University of Birmingham
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands
Salary
Starting Salary from £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974
Closing date 15 Jun 2024
Discipline

Life Science
Job Type
Researcher
Employment - Hours
Full time
Duration
Permanent
Qualification
PhD
Sector
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Background

The Rheumatology Research Group at the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing has an exciting opening for a talented scientist to join a growing hub of investigators developing and delivering single cell analytics and high parameter spatial data in inflammatory disease.

The successful applicant is a highly motivated and proactive computational biologist who will work across a rapidly growing, high impact portfolio of immune mediated inflammatory disease (IMID) research, linking genomic data to spatial analyses in order to understand the cellular and molecular basis of immune mediated inflammatory diseases, and drive development of new therapies and novel cellular clinical trial outcome measures.

Main Duties
The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.

Develop research objectives and proposals for own or joint research, with assistance of a mentor if required.
Contribute to writing bids for research funding.
Analyse and interpret data.
Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc.
Supervise students on research related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline.
Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods
Undertake management/administration arising from research.
Contribute to Departmental/School researchrelated activities and researchrelated administration.
Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.
Collect research data; this may be through a variety of research methods, such as scientific experimentation, literature reviews, and research interviews.
Present research outputs, including drafting academic publications or parts thereof, for example at seminars and as posters.
Provide guidance, as required, to support staff and any students who may be assisting with the research.
Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines.
Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.

Person Specification

Degreelevel training in cellular and molecular biology/immunology or equivalent experience.
A PhD/DPhil (or near completion) in a discipline of direct relevant to computational single cell genomics research.
High level analytical capability.
Ability to communicate complex information clearly.
Fluency in relevant models, techniques or methods and ability to contribute to developing new ones.
Strong competence with the programming language Python and with the statistical language R.
Ability to assess resource requirements and use resources effectively.
Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes.
Contribute to the planning and organising of the research programme and/or specific research project.
Coordinate own work with others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort
Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.

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