Summary
Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Edinburgh University are looking for a Postdoctoral Research with expertise in statistics/data science/epidemiology to join the child and adolescent psychiatry research team
Deadline: 02.09.2024
Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Edinburgh University are looking for a Postdoctoral Research with expertise in statistics/data science/epidemiology to join the child and adolescent psychiatry research team to help drive new innovation in the prediction and prevention of severe mental illness. The successful candidate will use world-class (healthcare and other) register data from the UK and Finland to drive forward our understanding of childhood risk for later mental illness and to apply causal inference methods to advance research on how to reduce risk for mental illness.
This post is full-time (35 hours per week). They are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- PhD in relevant area, such as psychiatric epidemiology or aligned fields.
- Experience in analysing large population datasets.
- Experience in writing and publishing articles in leading psychiatry journals.
- Additional experience in pharmacoepidemiology and causal inference research methods would be a strong advantage.