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Your Responsibilities
As a member of the HDDS platform, you will be responsible for:
- Supporting scientific projects with their complex data analysis tasks.
- Helping and advising researchers on integrating our software into their workflows and projects.
- Recruiting new users through systematic outreach efforts.
- Integrating with the HDDS, the Microscopy Innovation Platform, and the URPP AdaBD.
- Participating in the writing of scientific papers.
- Creating documentation materials, example datasets, and tutorials for the software provided by the HDDS platform.
- Proposing and implementing useful extensions of the software using third-party tools and novel custom methods.
- Visiting conferences to present the HDDS software and approach.
Your Profile
The ideal candidate has a solid background in natural sciences, preferably in neuroscience or adjacent fields, along with a strong theoretical and practical understanding of data science methods in the context of anatomical, functional, and behavioral data. Specifically:
- A master's degree or PhD in neuroscience, biomedicine, computer science, physics, or related fields.
- Excellent understanding of data analysis methods for anatomical and functional imaging data in a neuroscience context, particularly regarding multi-modal, high-dimensional, and large datasets.
- A curious and experiment-driven mindset.
- Willingness to become an expert user of the HDDS software.
- Academic track record with published papers in established journals or conference proceedings.
- Excellent programming skills, particularly in MATLAB; solid knowledge of Python or Java.
- Ability to understand, work with, and possibly extend complex software architectures.
- Good time-management skills to support both short-term (several months) and long-term (several years) project collaborations.
- Strong communication skills.
Application Process
Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.
For more information, please contact:
Sepp Kollmorgen
Head of the HDDS platform
sepp.kollmorgen@adabd.uzh.ch