Menu

12488 - Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Data Science

Job details
Posting date: 20 May 2025
Salary: £40,497 to £48,149 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 17 June 2025
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Remote working: Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week
Company: University of Edinburgh
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 12488

Apply for this job

Summary

Grade UE07: £40,497 - £48,149 per annum

CMVM / Institute of Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: 17 months





The Opportunity:

We are looking for an exceptionally talented and motivated data scientist to take up a fully funded position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) as part of a British Heart Foundation Project Grant: “Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Diagnosis of Acute Cardiac Conditions in Clinical Practice,” led by Dr Dimitrios Doudesis.

The post-holder will be responsible for conducting and supporting original research, focusing on the use of health data for the development of clinical decision-support tools in acute cardiovascular care using advanced machine learning techniques, including deep learning.

Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Dimitrios Doudesis, Principal Investigator (Dimitrios.Doudesis@ed.ac.uk).

The salary for this post is £40,497 to £48,149 per annum.



Your skills and attributes for success:

The ability to use mainstream data science programming languages (such as R and Python) for data extraction, transferring and transforming data, and statistical data analysis.
Experience in using one or more statistical software packages (e.g. R or similar).
Experience working with routinely collected cardiovascular health data.
Understanding and/or experience of machine and deep learning (e.g. XGBoost, convolutional neural networks etc.).
Flexible, enthusiastic and confident in relating to colleagues of varying levels of seniority. The ability to work well as part of a team.

Apply for this job