Job description
One position as Associate Professor is available at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE), Institute of Basic Medical Sciences (IMB), the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway.
OCBE wishes to strengthen its capacity in machine learning and is looking for candidates with expertise and experience in statistical theory and methods with focus on machine learning, together with a strong interest in applications to medicine, including basic medical research, clinical medicine, epidemiology and/or public health. The post is with tenure and permanent.
Applicants must show promise to become leading academics. They must document an already solid publication record, some experience in research leadership and teaching, and experience with applying for research funding. Together with your colleagues at OCBE, you will shape research and teaching leadership in this fast-developing discipline.
The Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE) is a joint department of the University of Oslo (UiO) and Oslo University Hospital (OUS). OCBE has expanded considerably during the last decade, becoming one of Europe's most active biostatistics and epidemiology groups. Currently, OCBE includes twelve tenured professors and associate professors, fifteen tenured researchers and senior researchers, and many postdoctoral fellows, PhD students and visiting scientists, making up a group of over 70 researchers.
OCBE’s research is internationally recognized, in particular in the areas of time-to-event models and causal inference; epidemiology of lifestyle, chronic diseases and infectious diseases; methods for high-dimensional data and data integration, especially in molecular medicine; mathematical modelling of cancer; probabilistic modelling and Bayesian inference, stochastic algorithms and simulation-based inference; and statistical machine learning. OCBE has collaborations with leading biomedical research groups in Norway and internationally. OCBE has acquired major research funding from the Norwegian Research Council, the European Union (including an ERC Advanced Grant), the Nordic Research Council, the Norwegian Cancer Society and several other public and private agencies.
OCBE is responsible for the biostatistics teaching in the professional study programme in Medicine, the Faculty's master programmes and the PhD training. OCBE also provides an extensive statistical advisory service for biomedical and clinical researchers at UiO and OUS - often an exciting source of data and challenges for our research.
OCBE has a central role in INTEGREAT, The Norwegian Centre for Knowledge-driven Machine Learning (ML), a center of excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway. The center is in operation from 2023 to 2033 and will fund more than 60 PhD and postdoc positions. INTEGREAT develops theories, methods, models and algorithms that integrate general and domain-specific knowledge with data, extending the data-centric paradigm of ML. Applicants for this position will be especially interested in pursuing their research within INTEGREAT, for example by taking a role as principal investigator in the center.
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