Imperial College
Statistical Analyst
Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Division of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Faculty of Medicine
£30,420 per annum
Imperial College is ranked the fifth best university in the world (Times Higher QS World University Rankings 2007).
Applications are invited for the post of Statistical Analyst to join a group of researchers, working jointly between the Departments of Clinical Neuroscience and of Epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College London and the Genetics group at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The successful applicant would be expected to divide their time between Imperial College and a GSK site in West London, dependant on project requirements.
The main purpose of this post is to implement genetic epidemiological studies being conducted by the group in the fields of neurological disease. The post holder will be expected to be knowledgeable about methods commonly used in genetic epidemiology including working with the HapMap, design of genotyping strategies, analysis of whole genome association studies, methods for imputing genotypes, dealing with population structure and to have good data management and data manipulation skills.
The successful candidate will hold a PhD/MSc (or equivalent) in statistics, statistical genetics or genetic epidemiology or a related discipline, have an interest in statistical genetic analysis and statistical methods development and have related experience in the genetic analysis of large clinical and genetic datasets plus previous experience using IT packages including SAS (or similar software package) and programming scripting skills (R, Perl, etc)
This new post is available for one year in the first instance.
Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Michael Johnson or Professor David Balding by email: m.johnson@imperial.ac.uk or d.balding@imperial.ac.uk respectively.
An application form and job description, along with further details may be obtained from the following web link:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment/research/hm20080391