Overview
Setting: The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Professor Simin Liu Principal Investigator (PI)’s Research Lab at UCI
Hours: 1.0 FTE (40 hour/ week)
We seek to hire a post-doctoral researcher with interest and experience in genetic and nutritional epidemiology particularly in multi-omics data analysis to participate in multiple extramurally funded projects. Under the general supervision of the PI, and within established policies and procedures, the researcher will perform work investigating mechanisms of cardiometabolic diseases and evaluating gene-environmental interactions and building predictive models for cardiovascular risk across diverse populations.
Educational Requirements:
-Candidates must have a doctoral degree in biostatistics, epidemiology, or a quantitatively sophisticated discipline.
Description of Role/ Responsibilities:
Assisting the PI in tasks such as obtaining and managing multi-dimensional omic data using cloud-based biorepositories
Drafting study documents including paper proposals, revisions to paper proposals, manuscript drafts and critical revisions.
Coding and statistical analysis using advanced casual inference statistical methods with multidimensional data on a cloud-based platform. Data analysis tasks will include: harmonization of data, data cleaning and analysis of patterns of missing data, time to event analyses, instrumental variable analyses, missing data imputation, network/ pathway analysis, risk prediction/ modelling.
Creating tables and figures for presentation and publication
Location: UCI, Irvine, California
Work Type: Full Time
Shift: Shift 1
About Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health
The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy.
As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.
