Technician Research Assistant – YOUTHreach

EURAXESS Czech Republic; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 40.000 - 47.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading university in Barcelona is seeking a Research Assistant for their Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Lab. The role involves supporting data management and project activities in EU-funded research projects focusing on youth mental health. Successful candidates will enjoy a dynamic work environment with opportunities for collaboration and professional development. Additional benefits include flexible working hours and a competitive salary.

Servicios

Dynamic position in beautiful Barcelona

Research experience at a prestigious university

Opportunities for international collaboration and travel

Flexible working hours and possibility to telework

Contract duration with possibility to extend

Formación

• Experience with data management and legal compliance.
• Familiarity with research projects and collaboration.
• Eagerness to participate in scientific activities.

Responsabilidades

• Support data management and ensure legal compliance.
• Coordinate project activities and maintain the Data Management Plan.
• Organise project meetings and document outcomes.

Conocimientos

Organisational skills

Collaboration skills

Creativity

Problem-solving abilities

Educación

Master's degree

Descripción del empleo

Organisation / Company Universitat de Barcelona Department OPIR Research Field Other Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Master Positions Country Spain Application Deadline 1 Jul 2025 - 23 : 59 (Europe / Madrid) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 1 Oct 2025 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Horizon Europe Reference Number Nº GA 101156514 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

We are looking for a proactive and well-organised Research Assistant at the University of Barcelona’s Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Lab ( ). The selected candidate will support data management, legal / ethical compliance, and project activities in the framework of the EU-funded YOUTHreach project. This multi-centre initiative focuses on youth mental health interventions across several international partner institutions.

The successful candidate will play a key role in coordinating data workflows, updating the Data Management Plan (DMP), supporting legal documentation, and assisting in setting up a federated analytics network. The role also involves contributing to internal project communications and supporting meetings and events across the consortium.

We offer :

• A dynamic position in beautiful Barcelona and its Mediterranean climate.
• Research experience within a prestigious university (1st position in Spain).
• Cutting-edge research in AI for healthcare in one of the most dynamic research groups in Europe (12 active projects including an ERC grant).
• An international research environment with a multi-cultural team representing all continents.
• Opportunities to collaborate with international and interdisciplinary collaborators as part of the European projects.
• Travelling opportunities to scientific events, project meetings and international stays.
• Flexible working hours, with possibility to telework.
• Contract duration of at least a year with the possibility to extend the contract.

Key Responsibilities :

Develop and Maintain the DMP :

• Support the ongoing development and bi-annual updates of the live DMP in collaboration with project partners
• Ensure the DMP aligns with FAIR data principles, legal frameworks, and data collection processes.

Data Preparation and Harmonisation :

• Support partners in performing data inventories and curating datasets from existing intervention sites.
• Federated Analytics Network Support :
• Assist in setting up and maintaining the federated analytics infrastructure with partners

Project Support :

• Schedule, document, and follow up on consortium meetings, including those of the Data Advisory Group (DAG).
• Support the preparation of internal reports and communication with institutional partners.
• Help organise project events, workshops, and stakeholder engagement activities.

The research projects :

You will join our exposome AI team as part of ongoing projects such as YOUTHreach ( ) and HappyMums ( ), funded by the European Commission. In these projects, we are developing new trustworthy AI methods for predictive modelling of depression and cardio-metabolic disease from multi-source biomedical data (including clinical, biological, imaging and environmental data). In particular, we are interested in new AI models which, once applied in real-world practice, will be fair across population groups, generalisable across clinical sites, robust against data variations, explainable for clinical use, and respectful of data privacy. Hence, we are investigating a wide range of approaches, including transfer learning, bias correction, domain adaptation, generative modelling, uncertainty estimation, explainable AI and federated learning. Should you join our team, you will collaborate with several technical and clinical partners within Europe ( e.g. in the Netherlands, the UK, Finland, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Poland).

The Group :

The successful candidate will join the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Lab ( ), which is an integral part of the University of Barcelona’s Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. It is a young and dynamic research lab, highly active in international projects, and composed of >

20 enthusiastic academics, researchers, students and research managers, with expertise in data science, machine / deep learning, biomedical informatics, biomedical ethics, and health-related applications. The research team has an established track record in coordination and participation in national, European and international projects in biomedical data science and medical AI (e.g. EuCanImage, euCanSHare, EarlyCause, LongITools, HealthyCloud, RadioVal, DataTools4Heart, Youth-GEMs, HappyMums, AIMIX, AI4HF).

The Institution :

The University of Barcelona (UB), founded in 1450, is one of the oldest universities in Spain. It comprises a student body of 84,370 and 4,548 research staff members. With 73 undergraduate programs, 273 graduate programs and 48 doctorate programs, UB is the largest university in Barcelona and Catalonia. The UB is ranked the first Spanish university according to several rankings (QS World University Rankings 2018, ARWU / Shanghai Ranking 2018). It is particularly interested in fostering international relations and, for many years, has managed an average of 150 European projects per year. Since January 2010, Universitat de Barcelona is part of the prestigious League of European Universities Research (LERU).

Gross salary per year : 40.488,04 €

The application period is from 17 June to 1 July 2025.

• Excellent organisational and time management Skills
• Collaboration and communication skills
• Creativity and problem-solving abilities
• Strong communication and organisational skills, with attention to detail and ability to coordinate across teams.

Specific Requirements

• Good team spirit and eagerness to participate in the scientific life of the lab
• Able to take initiative and problem-solve independently
• Passion for applications of artificial intelligence to biomedicine and health care

Research Field Other Years of Research Experience 1 - 4

Additional Information

Eligibility criteria

The selection is made through the evaluation of the curriculum , with an overall score of zero (0) to ten (10) points. The minimum score is five (5) points. The evaluation criteria are the following :

• Suitability of the candidate to the main function to be carried out
• Curricular experience
• Professional knowledge and skills

The tribunal, in its constitutive session, assesses the CVs of the candidates presented.

Selection process

A resolution of adjudication is issued to the person who, having passed the selection procedure, obtains the highest score and publishes the prioritised list of applicants who have passed the selection process, indicating the scores obtained, for subsequent recruitment, if necessary.

Additional comments

The candidate proposed for hiring must accept the job offer within 5 working days from the date of notification of the selection.

Priority will be given to people with disabilities (Law 89 / 2015 of June 2, reserve of quota 2% in favour of people with disabilities in companies of 50 or more people).

Be aware that the starting date sets in this offer is an estimate date. The official starting date will depend on the bureaucratic time that will take the preparation of the labour contract and presentation of the necessary documents to be hired by the selected candidate.

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