The Center for Lifespan Studies in Brain and Cognition

LCBC is an international interdisciplinary research center working to explain, predict and promote cognitive function from birth to old age. We study normal lifespan changes in brain and cognition, along with biomedical risk and protective factors to gain knowledge of both health and disease. Cognitive measures, imaging of brain activity and structure (MRI), genetics, molecular biology and registry information are systematically obtained and analyzed across large data sets from participants of a wide age range.

The center has researchers from different fields such as psychology, medicine, neuroscience, physics, informatics, mathematics and engineering. LCBC has excellent research infrastructure, including access to advanced high-performance computing facilities, a 3T Siemens Prisma MRI scanner, PET and EEG, and neuropsychological and somatic test facilities. LCBC was in 2015, as one of five, appointed status as a “world leading” research group at the University of Oslo. We encourage the interested applicant to visit www.oslobrains.no for more details about LCBC and our research.

Qualification requirements

LCBC is looking for a highly motivated and talented candidate with a strong interest in developing software solutions for scientific applications. The successful candidate has a master’s degree or similar in a relevant field, such as informatics, bioinformatics, computer science, physics/mathematics or relevant quantitative sciences. The candidate must have excellent command of English, orally and in writing.

We expect the successful applicant to be passionate about solving programming challenges faced in human lifespan research, and we consider it an asset to have experience with/competence in:

• Python, Java/React, C++, Matlab, R
• SQL
• Docker/Singularity
• ML libraries, data analysis and visualization
• Git/version control

Personal skills

The applicant should like to work collaboratively as the candidate is expected to work closely with researchers at LCBC as well as with our international collaborators. The candidate must have a good ability to multi-task and manage tasks with varying priorities and should be energetic and solution oriented. This is an ideal position for a talented person that enjoys challenges and acquiring new skills, and is dedicated to work within a very active research group.

Work tasks

Depending on qualifications and interests, the successful candidate will:

• Join teams of researchers and scientific programmers to solve project specific challenges and move proof-of-concepts to production ready code
• Contribute to open source code for use in brain science, and tailor existing tools to in-house processing/analysis pipelines
• Develop new tools and implement extensions to existing tools
• Support efforts to develop standards for version control and reproducible science

We offer

• A full-time, permanent position (SKO1181 Senior engineer)
• Salary 524200 - 695500 NOK per year/ ≈ 63 713 - 84 534 USD per year/ ≈ 56 634 - 75 141€ per year, depending on qualifications
• Professional development in a stimulating academic environment
• Favorable pension and social welfare benefits

How to apply

The application must include:

• Letter of application, 1-2 pages, explaining the motivation for applying
• Curriculum Vitae summarizing education, positions and academic work, if any
• Copies of educational certificates, and documentation of any work that the applicant wishes to be considered by the evaluation committee, such as online repositories or the like
• Names and contact details of at least two references (name, relation to candidate, e-mail and telephone number).

The application with attachments must be delivered in our recruiting system.

International applicants are advised to attach an explanation of their University’s grading system. All documents should be in English or a Scandinavian language.

In assessing applications, the qualifications stated above will guide the process. After the initial screening process, interviews with selected candidates may be arranged where the applicants’ personal prerequisites and cooperative skills will be emphasized.

Formal regulations

The University of Oslo has an agreement for all employees, aiming to secure rights to research results a.o. According to the Norwegian Freedom of Information Act information about an applicant may be included in the public applicants list, even if the applicant has requested non-disclosure.

The University of Oslo aims to achieve a balanced gender composition in the workforce and to recruit people with ethnic minority backgrounds.

For more information about Oslo, please see:

http://www.visitnorway.com/en/oslo

Contact information

• Head of Administration Birgitte Bøgh-Olsen: +47 22 84 51 04 / birgitte.bogh-olsen@psykologi.uio.no)
• Professor: Anders M Fjell : andersmf@psykologi.uio.no

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