BACKGROUND

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Developing innovative data science based solutions to support target and drug discovery across a wide portfolio of disease areas, such as CNS and Immunology
• Contributing your expertise and communicating ideas effectively to informatics/non-informatics colleagues and stakeholders across other departments
• Supporting junior members of the team

REQUIREMENTS

• A PhD in a relevant discipline, such as Bioinformatics, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics etc.
• Experience working with a wide variety of complex biological data sets, including multi-omics data
• A genuine passion for applying machine learning based approaches to solving biological questions, data mining and visualisation
• Wide theoretical knowledge of data science based approaches, including gradient boosting, random forests, convolutional neural networks
• Knowledge of Bayesian statistics and practical experience of deep learning frameworks (eg. Tensorflow)
• Fantastic communication skills
• Insatiable curiosity, innovation and imagination are key attributes for this role!

HOW TO APPLY