Area of responsibilities/description of the work
The Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) is a department at Karolinska Institutet and an interdisciplinary research institute within the area of environmental medicine. IMM conducts world-class research within epidemiology, biostatistics, toxicology, and physiology with a focus on how environmental and lifestyle risk factors affect our health and how they interact with genetic factors in causation of disease. The Unit of Epidemiology puts strong emphasis on the development and application of epidemiological research methods. The research topics focus on environmental exposures and life style factors in relation to different diseases particularly cancer and cardiovascular disease but also diabetes.
The position focuses on epidemiological research on adult and childhood brain tumor etiology. The studies utilize the Swedish population and health data registers, as well as two large international case-control studies of adult and childhood brain tumors, including interview data and biological samples. The post doc is expected to analyze the available data, write papers, and supervise doctoral students. Most of the work is done with international collaboration.
Qualifications
Applicants should have a PhD degree in epidemiology awarded within the past five years, and must be fluent in English. Applicants who have completed their degree no more than three years before the last date for applications should be given priority.
Special weight will be given academic skills with a strong publication record, particularly previous experience of analyses of case-control and cohort studies.
Postgraduates who have yet to graduate may apply if their public defense is scheduled to take place within three months after the application deadline, in which case verification from the Dissertation Committee or equivalent body must be submitted with the application.
Information
For further details of the appointment please contact Professor Maria Feychting, maria.feychting@ki.se, 46 8 524 874 65. Union representatives are Marika Berglund, SACO +46 8 524 875 36, marika.berglund@ki.se and Anna Lena Marcus, OFR46 8 524 87568, anna.lena.marcus@ki.se
Please send your application, marked with reference number 2652/2011, to reach us by no later than May 22 2011 to registrator@imm.ki.se or Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Irene Tjernberg, Box 210, 171 77 Stockholm. The following documents should be enclosed with your application and written in English; a CV containing a brief outline of previous and current work or preferably in accordance with the Karolinska Institutet qualification portfolio and names and contact information of three references.
See Karolinska Institutet´s homepage at http://ki.se/qualificationsportfolio for information about the qualification portfolio.Please note that one copy of all documents will be kept by the college for a period of two years, in accordance with a directive from the National Archives. Published material submitted for review is excepted from this rule.
Karolinska Institutet aims to promote equal opportunities by encouraging a balanced gender distribution. We also value the qualities that ethnic and cultural diversity can contribute to the university.
Karolinska Institutet is one of the world´s leading medical universities. Its mission is to contribute to the improvement of human health through research and education. Karolinska Institutet accounts for over 40 per cent of the medical academic research conducted in Sweden and offers the country´s broadest range of education in medicine and health sciences. Since 1901 the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has selected the Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine.
