Biostatistics & Data Analysis Research Scientist

Ghent University; Belgique; On-site; EUR 28,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

36 days holiday leave

Bicycle allowance

Eco vouchers

Training and education opportunities

Job summary

Ghent University is seeking a motivated scientific staff member to join a project analyzing chronic periprosthetic joint infections. The role involves managing the research database, performing diagnostic accuracy analyses in R, and developing reproducible classification algorithms.

You will prepare publication-ready tables and figures and contribute to manuscript writing while working with surgeons, microbiologists, biologists and biostatistics professionals.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in biomedical sciences, bioscience engineering, statistics or data science, bioinformatics, epidemiology, pharmaceutical sciences or related field.
• Demonstrable experience with R and sound knowledge of statistics.
• Accurate, structured data handling and thorough documentation of work.
• Good written and spoken English; Dutch is an asset.
• Ability to work independently within a tight timeframe while collaborating within a team.
• Assets: REDCap experience; diagnostic study methodology (STARD/ROC); medical microbiology or infectious diseases; scientific writing.
• Recent graduates are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Manage, validate and clean the research database (REDCap) and convert it into analysis-ready datasets.
• Perform diagnostic accuracy analyses in R (sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, ROC, agreement statistics) with 95% CIs, reported per STARD 2015.
• Implement classification algorithms for the diagnostic frameworks and document the code reproducibly.
• Prepare publication-ready tables and figures and contribute to writing scientific manuscripts.
• Work closely with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and the Biostatistics Unit.
• Comply with GDPR, working exclusively with pseudonymised data.

Skills

R (statistical programming)

Statistics knowledge

Data management

Documentation

Education

Master’s degree in biomedical sciences or related field

Tools

REDCap

Job description

Ghent University is seeking a motivated scientific staff member to join a project analyzing chronic periprosthetic joint infections. The role involves managing the research database, performing diagnostic accuracy analyses in R, and developing reproducible classification algorithms.

You will prepare publication-ready tables and figures and contribute to manuscript writing while working with surgeons, microbiologists, biologists and biostatistics professionals.