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Job Offers Scientific Staff and PhD positions at MeDaX Junior Group starting Jan 2023 (published 21.11.2022)


The MeDaX junior group focuses graph databases and development of methods and tools for bioMedical Data eXploration. We have two positions available starting beginning of 2023.

contact: Judith Wodke

 

Scientific Staff

Tasks:

  • Research focus: (Further) development and implementation of a pipeline for automatic generation of a FAIR graph database, incl. consolidation of heterogeneous data from diverse sources
  • Design of methods and implementation of a tool for semantic enrichment of the stored biomedical research data with quality metrics and provenance information
  • Integration and expansion of software tools already existing in the consortium, e.g., for quality control and distributed data requests
  • Concept and prototypical realisation of a clinic-internal information portal based on the research data infrastructure of the UMG-DIC
  • Regular presentation of results on scientific conferences and publication in scientific journals
  • Contribution to teaching (optional), supervision of PhD and undergraduate students
  • Contribution to establishing graph databases and FAIR principles in biomedical research

Requirements:

  • Master degree in computer science, bioinformatics, medical informatics or a comparable field is required and must be proven
  • A doctorate or comparable experiences are desirable
  • Experiences in topics (biomedical) databases or scientific software development are required and must be proven (e.g., with project repositories (github or similar) or publications)
  • Programming skills (e.g., Python, R, Java, C++) are mandatory and must be proven, e.g., with references to software projects or publications
  • Research interest and the ability to work autonomously are required
  • Interest in high-quality scientific software solutions following data protection by design is required
  • English skills or German skills are required
  • Knowledge in the topics graph databases, data integration, semantic enrichment/ontologies, provenance are desirable
  • Experiences in frontend or backend development are desirable

 

PhD

Tasks:

  • Research focus: Design of a concept for semantic enrichment and integration of biomedical data according to FAIR principles and prototypical implementation of this concept
  • Realisation and further development of guidelines establishing FAIR principles in biomedical research
  • Development of similarity measures for biomedical data sets with focus on the MI-I core data set
  • Implementation of a structure request tool considering the similarity measures
  • Concept design, processing and evaluation of medical use cases along with the UMG-DIC and clinical partners
  • Regular presentation of results on scientific conferences and publication in scientific journals
  • Writing and defending of a doctoral thesis
  • Contribution to group-internal projects, supervision of undergraduate students

Requirements:

  • Master degree in computer science, bioinformatics, medical informatics or a comparable field is required and must be proven
  • Programming skills (e.g., Python, R, Java, C++) are mandatory and must be proven, e.g., with references to software projects or publications
  • Experiences in using and developing database solutions, specifically graph databases, data integration, semantic enrichment/ontologies, or provenance, are desirable
  • Research interest is required
  • Ability to work autonomously is required
  • Interest in high-quality scientific software solutions following data protection by design is required
  • English skills or German skills are required