Diabetes Genomics & ML Research Fellow (3-Year)

EURAXESS Ireland; Southampton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension provision

Generous annual leave

Flexible working

Job summary

University of Southampton invites applications for a three-year, full-time Research Fellow to join a precision-diabetes research programme in the Faculty of Medicine. Based at University Hospital Southampton, you will integrate organ-health measures with genetic data to identify diabetes subtypes and predict disease risk and progression.

You will work with genetic epidemiologists, clinicians and data scientists, applying advanced statistics and ML approaches, and contribute to publications and

Qualifications

• PhD in genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, biostatistics, data science or related field.
• Experience analysing large-scale genetic/epidemiological/biomedical datasets, ideally including UK Biobank.
• Strong statistical and computational skills with R and/or Python; Linux computing experience.
• Experience conducting GWAS and Mendelian randomisation analyses with quality controls.
• Evidence of high-quality research outputs (peer-reviewed publications).

Responsibilities

• Develop and apply machine learning approaches to identify diabetes subtypes from organ-health data.
• Characterise clinical, metabolic and genetic profiles of diabetes subtypes and test reproducibility across populations.
• Conduct GWAS and Mendelian randomisation analyses; perform quality control and sensitivity analyses.
• Develop models to predict incident type 2 diabetes and disease progression using genetic/clinical data.
• Analyse large-scale population datasets (e.g., UK Biobank) with robust statistics and reproducible workflows.
• Contribute to high-impact publications, conferences and dissemination of findings.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary researchers across genetics, imaging, statistics and data science.

Skills

R programming

Python programming

Linux computing environments

GWAS & Mendelian randomisation

Statistical modelling

Education

PhD in genetic epidemiology / statistical genetics / biostatistics / data science or related discipline

Tools

R

Python

Linux

Job description

University of Southampton invites applications for a three-year, full-time Research Fellow to join a precision-diabetes research programme in the Faculty of Medicine. Based at University Hospital Southampton, you will integrate organ-health measures with genetic data to identify diabetes subtypes and predict disease risk and progression.

You will work with genetic epidemiologists, clinicians and data scientists, applying advanced statistics and ML approaches, and contribute to publications and