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Bioinformatician (Research Fellow):

Employer
University College London (UCL)
Location
London, England
Salary £ £50585 per annum
Closing date 23 Feb 2024
Discipline

Biomedicine
Job Type
Bioinformatician
Employment - Hours
Full time
Duration
Fixed term
Qualification
PhD
Sector
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About us
The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is the biggest UK initiative supporting research to fill this gap.

About the role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our newly founded informatics team as a bioinformatician.

You will be committed to tackling dementia through collaborative efforts across an organisation that is committed to advancing dementia research.

As a bioinformatician, you will develop, maintain, and run data analysis pipeline infrastructure established by the data science team.

You will also participate in several stages of data lifecycle management such as data processing, curation, management, and submission of the large and diverse amounts of data generated by UK DRI research teams.

The post is available immediately and funded by UK DRI until 31 March 2028 in the first instance.

This role is eligible for hybrid working with a minimum of 20% of time on site.

Informal enquiries regarding the role can be addressed to Amonida Zadissa, Associate Director of Informatics ().

About you

You will hold a PhD or equivalent in a relevant scientific discipline or have equivalent practical experience working in the biomedical or health informatics domain.

You will have experience in informatics techniques, data management, and data curation, as well as a good understanding of workflow management tools like Nextflow and Snakemake.

In addition, you will have experience in programming (R, Python, etc.) and in agile software development processes and management using GitHub.

What we offer

Appointment at Grade 7 is dependent upon having been awarded a PhD; if this is not the case, initial appointment will be at research assistant Grade 6B (salary £37,332 - £39,980 per annum) with payment at Grade 7 being backdated to the date of final submission of the PhD thesis.

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