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The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 3,600 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 17,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations.
We are now looking for highly motivated and talented
to join us in Data4Healthcare postdoctoral programme co-funded by the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie-Action COFUND of the EU funding programme Horizon Europe.
Data4Healthcare - From Big data to new science and practical solutions – is a novel postdoctoral programme hosted at an international and multidisciplinary research environment of University of Oulu (UOULU), Finland, co-funded by the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie-Action COFUND of the EU funding programme Horizon Europe. The Programme will train 25 postdoctoral researchers to better exploit and develop the possibilities of big data in the EU and globally. The aim of the Data4Healthcare programme is to offer cutting-edge research, research training and career development for talented researchers of any nationality in fields associated with big data. The Oulu ecosystem with strong background in eHealth and ICT, new world´s smartest hospital and research teams utilizing large molecular data provide unprecedented surroundings for the programme. The positions are located at the University of Oulu, Finland.
The Programme is carried out within 4 faculties and over 50 research groups of the University of Oulu and in collaboration with partners committed to jointly supervising and providing secondment opportunities for the postdoctoral researchers.
This first call of Data4Healthcare invites fifteen (15) candidates for three-year (36 months) postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of Oulu, funded by the programme. Over 50 research groups with their research topics in which the positions are available, and the applicants may choose from, can be found in the Guide for Applicants and in the Data4Healthcare website. Also the Associated Partners are listed there. Programme’s second call will open in January 2025 concerning 10 postdoctoral researcher positions.
Please, familiarize yourself with the research units/groups available for recruitment in the Data4Healthcare programme and read instructions carefully from the Guide for Applicants. For further information you may also contact research group leaders listed.
You may also freely plan and propose a research project with an additional potential participating research site in UOULU not listed. In that case a commitment letter from the additional research group has to be attached to the application.
We are looking for excellent candidates that meet the following criteria:
Postdoctoral researchers selected in the Data4Healthcare programme will by default be offered a three-year (36 months) fixed-term full-time employment contract by the University of Oulu. The selected applicants are expected to start their project in September 2024.
The salary of the selected postdoctoral researchers will be paid monthly. The starting gross salary (before taxes) will be 4000 € per month for the fulltime employment, in accordance with the guidelines of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND action. In addition, the researchers are also entitled to travel expenses up to 1200 € per year.
The employment contracts are based on a total working time of 1 612 hours per year, which gives the postdoctoral researchers freedom to plan their working hours.
A trial period of 6 months is applied in the position.
Interested? If yes, please send your application together with all relevant enclosures by March 15th, 2024 at 23:59 (UTC +2/Helsinki) through our recruitment system.
Guidance and detailed Instructions for applicants is available in the Guide for Applicants. The Guide for Applicants is recommended to be read carefully together with this Call text.
All the documents must be written in English and named using the last name of the applicant and the document title.
Important: The information about the research groups in UOULU with their research areas, and their potential ideas for the research projects are briefly described on the Data4Healthcare web pages and in the Guide for Applicants with secondment possibilities and contact details.
Ensure that you have included all the required attachments with your application. Only applications containing all relevant appendices and submitted through the online Varbi-recruitment system will be considered.
Please note that it's possible to edit and supplement your application until the end of the application period. If the appendices exceed the defined maximum length, only the pages specified in the instructions are taken into account in the assessment. After submitting the application, you will receive a reply message with a link to your application form. However, we recommend completing your application as early as possible.
Applications received after the deadline or incomplete applications will not be considered. For any inquiries regarding the submission of the application, it is recommended to contact Data4Healthcare info desk (data4healthcare@oulu.fi) as soon as possible and at least a week before submitting the application.
The applications meeting all the eligibility requirements will be sent for an external evaluation. Applications will be evaluated according to three main criteria: the quality of the applicant, the content of the Motivation letter and the Research plan. Based on the external evaluation, 30 highest ranked applicants will be asked for an online interview. As the result of the evaluation process, the top 15 candidates will be offered postdoctoral researcher positions.
Detailed information about the evaluation procedure, structure of the Research plan and the Motivation letter is available in the Guide for Applicants.
The Guide for Applicants provides detailed information related to the Data4Healthcare programme. If you cannot find the information you need from that document, please address your requests to data4healthcare@oulu.fi and visit our website: https://www.oulu.fi/en/university/faculties-and-units/biocenter-oulu/data4healthcare
Type of employment | Temporary position |
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Contract type | Full time |
Salary | 4000 € |
Number of positions | 15 |
Full-time equivalent | 100% |
City | Oulu |
County | Pohjois-Pohjanmaa |
Country | Finland |
Reference number | 2024/9 |
Published | 15.Jan.2024 |
Last application date | 10.Apr.2024 |