Jagiellonian University Medical College in Krakow is looking for a specialist in statistics with skills in the analysis of big data for a post of researcher in a project group in the Laboratory for Research on Aging Society, in the Department of Medical Sociology, Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Required qualifications and skills:

• professional education confirmed with a master’s degree in mathematics, physics, sociology with specialization in data analysis, or related domain;
• ability to conduct complex statistical analysis of big data or data collections with many variables, which should be confirmed with at least one such analysis carried out in the past;
• command of the software: SAS, R;
• command of the Python language and the libraries XGBoost or LightGBM;
• experience in modeling medical interventions;
• knowledge of SQL;
• very good command of the English language allowing to participate in international research programs and preparing reports from analysis and texts for publication.

Additional assets of the candidate will be:

• experience in cooperation with international research teams, especially in health sciences, confirmed with a previous participation in research programs or scientific publications;
• knowledge of social and medical sciences, preferably in the area of research on multimorbidity and older adults;
• knowledge of qualitative research methods, preferably with experience in conducting analysis of qualitative research outcomes using programs for the analysis of such sort of data (e.g. MAXQDA);
• command of the software IBM SPSS Statistics;
• acquaintance of data visualization and preparing reports (e.g. in the program PowerBI);
• basic knowledge of machine learning;
• interest in scientific development.

Details of the announcement and information on the processing of personal data in order to carry out the recruitment procedure can be found in the annexes.