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We offer a full-time appointment as a Bioinformatician / Data scientist at the Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention (MMI) department. The main task of the position is to set up/facilitate, perform and supervise complex analyses for the above-mentioned questions in the context of diagnostics, epidemiology, business intelligence and scientific research. This includes setting up/designing sequence analysis pipelines, accessing data (using SQL and/or other common systems), maintaining existing Bio-IT tools, filtering, matching and restructuring data, drawing up reports and creating dashboards. Other tasks include assisting with other ICT-related matters such as serving as an information resource for ICT issues and providing ad-hoc ICT solutions when needed. The tasks will be diverse but translational in nature, aiming to automate new applications for patient care and process results for improving future diagnostics.
You will work closely with the MMI staff, including Medical Molecular Microbiologists and medical specialists in the field of microbiology and infectious diseases.
The Bioinformatician/Data Scientist supports the department by writing database queries, exporting, and analyzing data to answer questions related to diagnostics, epidemiology, business intelligence, and scientific research. Therefore, the data scientist will collaborate with colleagues from all disciplines of the MMI department.
The tasks are at an academic level, and there will be opportunities for (co)authoring scientific publications.
Fixed-term contract: 3 years. Permanent employment thereafter is envisaged.
This concerns a temporary employment contract for 3 years for an average of 36 hours per week in accordance with article 2.4.4 Cao umc. Permanent employment thereafter is envisaged.
We offer you: An end-of-year bonus of 8.3% of your gross annual salary. Good pension provision at ABP; Possibility to participate in collective insurance for, among other things, medical expenses (umc) and disability (Loyalis); Cao à la Carte, including, for example, a bicycle scheme and sports subscription; Various in-company training courses and the possibility of development via e-learning methodology.
Depending on education and experience, appointments will be made in scale A10 or A11 in accordance with the collective labor agreement of the UMC.
In addition to various research laboratories, the Department of Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention of MUMC+ comprises 3 diagnostic laboratories:
In total, MMI has more than 100 employees, including physicians, medical molecular microbiologists, researchers, lab technicians, infection prevention experts and a diverse group of employees in support roles. Due to the digitization of work processes and the availability of techniques such as Next generation sequencing, the department generates large amounts of data, including laboratory test results, logging of performed steps in the diagnostic process and raw data (including sequencing) that require complex further analysis to obtain a result.
The Bioinformatician/Data Scientist supports the department by writing database queries, exporting, and analyzing data to answer questions related to diagnostics, epidemiology, business intelligence, and scientific research. Therefore, the data scientist will collaborate with colleagues from all disciplines of the MMI department.
The tasks are at an academic level, and there will be opportunities for (co)authoring scientific publications.
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