Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Statistical Genomics

We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to join Pier Palamara’s research group at the University of Oxford. The position is funded by the Pioneer Centre for Statistical and Computational Methods for Advanced Research to Transform Biomedicine (SMARTbiomed), an international collaboration that integrates large-scale, multimodal biomedical data with advances in statistical and machine learning methods to improve the understanding, treatment and prevention of human disease.  

The successful candidate will develop novel statistical and machine learning algorithms to address key challenges in human genomics, applying them to large-scale genomic datasets encompassing millions of sequenced individuals and high-dimensional health-related data. The project will build on the group’s recent work on large-scale analysis of complex traits, including Bayesian machine learning and linear mixed model approaches for trait prediction and association in high-dimensional genomic datasets, as well as methods for inferring genealogical structures such as ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) and leveraging them to study heritable traits and human evolution.  

Deadline: 12.00 noon UK time on 2 May 2025.

Research Software Engineer

We invite applications for a Research Software Engineer to join the Oxford Protein Informatics Group  (OPIG). This exciting position is unique within the University and will provide an unrivalled and privileged opportunity to interact directly between a highly productive academic group and many pharmaceutical companies.  The project is pioneering an academic business model for how to achieve simultaneously the ideal of fully open software while sustaining a long-term funding stream.

The position is offered on a permanent basis and is full-time.

Applicants will have completed a relevant PhD/DPhil with post-qualification research experience. Relevant areas of research include computational chemistry, structural biology/bioinformatics, statistics, machine learning, computer science or mathematics. They will have a strong publication record and familiarity with the existing literature and research in computational chemistry or structural biology/bioinformatics, experience with coding in a wide variety of languages and platforms, Python in particular. They would also have Prior experience of collaboratively developing software tools in the areas of computational chemistry, structural biology/bioinformatics, statistics or machine learning.  More requirements will be found on the Job Description.

Deadline: 12.00 noon (UK time) on Wednesday, 4th June 2025

As a department, we offer paid summer research internships. If you would like to learn more about our internships, we have a dedicated page for them.

Applications for 2025 summer internships will open in January 2025.

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