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Research Fellow in Statistical Omics

Dates
  • Opening Date: 16-Oct-2024
  • Closing Date: 03-Nov-2024

Location
  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Salary
  • Level A.6 – $105,518 p.a. plus 17% super

Responsibilities
  • Develop advanced statistical methods for integrating omics data to enhance biological understanding.
  • Collaborate with top experts across statistics, computational biology, and biology to drive interdisciplinary research and career growth.
  • Contribute towards the research effort of the team and develop your research expertise with an increasing degree of autonomy.
  • Conduct internationally competitive research, resulting in publications in high impact journals.
  • Contribute to and publish academic papers and other scholarly outputs to a high academic standard in accordance with the research expectations of the University of Melbourne.
  • Actively participate in research seminars and conferences to disseminate research findings as opportunities arise.
  • Contribute to the preparation, or where appropriate individual preparation of research proposal submissions to internal or external funding bodies as relevant.

Requirements
  • A PhD or equivalent research higher degree in statistics, or interdisciplinary computational statistics research in genomics or a related area.
  • Strong computer programming skills in R and experience in software development.
  • Experience in multivariate statistical analysis.
  • Knowledge of mammalian molecular biology and genomics.

Benefits
  • Salary packaging
  • Subsidised health and wellbeing services
  • Fitness and cultural clubs
  • Myki discounts
  • 25% discount on graduate courses for staff and their immediate families
  • Generous leave provisions

Notes
  • This role requires that the successful candidate must undergo and maintain an up-to-date Working with Children Check.