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Location

Kiel | Germany

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Job description

PhD position Data Analyst / Statistican (m/f/n)

Dept. of Neurology, UKSH Kiel

The Department of Neurology at the UKSH Kiel is a highly dynamic research environment that is nationally and internationally competitive in neurological research, in particular Parkinson’s disease. Excellent career opportunities, collaborative team play with partners in academic and industry research, and both technology/innovation-driven as well as patient-centered research make the Dept. of Neurology a unique working place. The PhD project focus on data analysis identifying sensor-based movement signatures in the lab and at home of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). How can sensors provide (personalized) measures of PD severity? In what respect do these sensor-based movement signatures change under treatment?

Start in our team

Join us at the earliest possible date and be part of our team with a 1-year contract (extension possible)!

What we offer:

• A PhD project that is internationally competitive and at the frontier of PD research
• University sport and fitness at company rates as a valuable balance to work
• Discounted meals in our company canteen so that you are taken care of during your break
• The chance to get exciting insights - tinkering with exciting questions that will enable you to further expand your know-how and implement them together with our project teams
• Collected data from participants with neurodegenerative diseases wearing IMU sensors during different activities in lab and home environment will be exploited, interpreted, and conclusions drawn that are relevant for the understanding and management of the diseases when it comes to gaining clinically relevant insights and improving daily life for affected patients
• Integration into multidisciplinary teams at the Dept. of Neurology, UKSH Kiel (Working groups: Integrative data analytics, Neurogeriatrics)
• Excellent and comprehensive supervision
• Being in exchange with and learning from experienced data analysts (of our working groups and our collaboration partners in the pharmaceutical industry)

Requirements:

• Strong academic background and a Bachelor in Biotechnology and Master in Medical Life Sciences or a related field with experience in machine learning and statistics and data analysis
• Proficiency in handling large amounts of data using various tools - all programming languages are welcome, especially R and the R package GGIR & Python
• The ability to process and analyze large structured and unstructured data, identify patterns and apply data mining and predictive analytics and to identify and evaluate, in close interaction with us, unknown relationships in data in order to gain clinically relevant insights and responsibility for conducting explorative data analyses in complex data structures
• Familiarity and understanding of state-of-the-art machine learning methods, model selection and deep learning concepts, as well as c ombining strong theoretical and analytical skills with programming experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (German B2 or B1) in an interdisciplinary environment

We look forward to receiving your application by March 12, 2024 , quoting the vacancy number 23660 .

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