Are you excited about what Exposome research can bring to better understand ageing with multi-morbidity? Would you like to pioneer approaches to making Exposome data FAIR? Then this postdoc position within our group might be for you! We are offering an exciting position in which we use and further develop existing FAIR infrastructures to study the impact of the Exposome on aging with multimorbidity and other health outcomes.

Your job
You’ll be conducting epidemiological analyses using cohort studies and exposome data (eg. geospatial and metabolomics data). At the same time, you will contribute to making the data, resources, and methods you work with Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. You will work in a multi-disciplinary team that consists of Exposome researchers, data architects, data stewards, and IT specialists. Your position will be nested within two large-scale European projects: STAGE and IHEN.

As the ideal candidate for this position, you are enthusiastic and ambitious, an independent thinker, excellent writing skills, and a team player. You hold a PhD in (medical) statistics, epidemiology, data science, or a related discipline. Affinity with environmental health is valued. Furthermore, you have strong programming skills, and are comfortable working with large-scale data. You are willing to travel, have an appropriate publication record and are willing to apply for grant funding.

Candidates with the following skills are especially encouraged to apply:

• experience in statistical analyses with R or other programming languages;
• experience in applying the FAIR principles to your work;
• excellent collaboration and communication skills (written and spoken);
• a strong motivation to work in a multidisciplinary international research team.

We offer:

• a position for one year;
• a working week of 20 hours and a full-time gross salary between €3,226 and €5,090 (scale 10 of the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities (CAO));
• 8% holiday bonus and 8.3% end-of-year bonus;
• a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave, and flexible employment conditions based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities.

In addition to the terms of employment laid down in the CAO NU, Utrecht University has a number of schemes and facilities of its own for employees. This includes schemes facilitating professional development, leave schemes and schemes for sports and cultural activities, as well as discounts on software and other IT products. We also offer access to additional employee benefits through our Terms of Employment Options Model. In this way, we encourage our employees to continue to invest in their growth. For more information, please visit Working at Utrecht University.

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IRAS is an interfacultary research institute within the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine. Our mission is to provide education and research on the human and environmental health risks of exposure to potentially harmful agents in the environment where research takes place within the domains Toxicology, Environmental Epidemiology and Veterinary Public Health.

This project is supervised by Dr Vlaanderen and Professor R.C.H. Vermeulen. If you have any questions, please contact j.j.vlaanderen@uu.nl.

Candidates for this vacancy will be recruited by Utrecht University.