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BACKGROUND

A postdoc position is available in the Cellular Network Biology group at The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR – http://www.cpr.ku.dk). The Center has been established at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, to promote basic and applied discovery research on human proteins of medical relevance. The Center comprises a wide range of expertise and resources including proteomics, protein production, bioinformatics and general characterization of disease mechanisms. The Programme for Disease Systems Biology consists of two research groups covering many systems level aspects of biology and medicine, including the integration of molecular-level data and healthcare data, including biomedical texts.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Cellular Network Biology group (http://www.cpr.ku.dk/research/disease-systems-biology/jensen/) led by Lars Juhl Jensen focuses on network-based analysis of proteins and their posttranslational modifications in the context of cellular signaling and disease. The postdoc will work on development of advanced methods for protein-centric text mining of large corpora, including combining efficient dictionary-based named entity-recognition with conditional random fields and classification based on word embedding. The resulting improved methods will in collaboration with other group members be integrated into STRING (http://string-db.org) and related databases/tools, and the software will be made available under open licenses.

Projected start date: Early 2017.

REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications:
Candidates for the postdoctoral positions must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent) within a relevant discipline and have strong programming experience. The successful candidates will have strong qualifications or experience within several of the following areas:

Text mining
Bioinformatics / computational biology
Machine learning
Statistical data mining
Biomedical ontologies
Programming in Python and/or C++

The cellular network biology group is highly multidisciplinary and international. Members are expected to collaborate both within the group, within the center, nationally, and internationally; strong networking and team player skills are therefore valued.

LOCALE

Place of employment and work:
The employment is at CPR, University of Copenhagen, located in central Copenhagen. The research environment at CPR is ambitious and international, with approx. 30 different nationalities currently represented. The Center comprises modern laboratories, supercomputer resources and state-of-the-art facilities within protein science. Seminars with high-profile international speakers and regular internal research seminars are organized at the Center. The selected candidate should expect some travel activity.

For more information on working and living in Denmark visit http://www.ism.ku.dk (International staff mobility) and http://www.workingconditions.ku.dk.

COMPENSATION & TERMS

Terms of salary and employment:
Salary, pension and terms of employment will be in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Academics Central organization. Currently, the monthly salary is around 32,000-33,700 DKK (around 4,200-4,500 €) plus 17.1 % in pension contribution.

The Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC) have agreed on a protocol that makes it possible for all international researchers employed by the University to achieve a pension exemption, where the pension will be paid as salary. For more information about the different pension schemes: http://ism.ku.dk/onarrival/pension/

Duration: 2 or 3 years

HOW TO APPLY

Your application should be submitted electronically to: http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/

Only applications sent through this link will be accepted.

Your application should include the following documents:

Motivated letter of application
Curriculum vitae, incl. education and experience
Copy of diplomas/degree certificate(s)
List of publications

DEADLINE

Deadline for application: November 1, 2016

After the expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorized recruitment manager selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the Appointments Committee. All applicants are then immediately notified whether their application has been passed for assessment by an expert assessment committee. Selected applicants are notified of the composition of the committee and each applicant has the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that relates to the applicant him/herself. You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk

For further information about the position or the process, please contact CPR: jobs[at]cpr.ku.dk

POLICY

CPR and the University of Copenhagen wish to reflect the diversity of society and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

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