Biostatistician, Lifecourse Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Medicine

The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 4000 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 19,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations. The University of Oulu is ranked in the top 3% of the world's universities. All our research, education, and community activities are guided by our university's values and ethical principles.

We are now looking for a

Biostatistician

to join us in the Research Unit of Clinical Medicine for a fixed-term position lasting until 31 December 2029 .

You will be based with the Lifecourse Medicine and Birth Cohort Research Group at the Clinical Medicine Research Unit. Our mission in the research group is to understand how exposures early in life, from the fetal period onwards, affect health and well-being during the life course, up to the next generation, and to use this information to advance lifelong health and well-being. We are in particular interested in adult and next-generation outcomes of people born preterm or small for gestational age in high and low resource settings.

In our research we use various types of data including whole-population data from national social and healthcare registers from Finland and other Nordic countries and data from clinically studied children and adults in high and low resource settings, including detailed physiological measurements and omics data.

About the job

As a biostatistician, you will

Be responsible for data management including data cleaning, harmonisation and documentation and preparation of analysis datasets of diverse data types such as social and healthcare register data, data from physiological and biochemical measurements, omics data or data c