Postdoctoral Researcher - Precision ALS Data & Web Platform

ADAPT Centre; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 46,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin seeks a Post Doctoral Researcher for the Precision ALS Research Programme to develop, integrate and analyze multimodal biomarker data. The role bridges biomedical research, data management and data science, supported by a cross-disciplinary team in Dublin.

You will help design secure web tools for data discovery and reuse, collaborate with researchers and clinicians, and advance biomarker discovery while ensuring governance, privacy and reproducibility.

Qualifications

• PhD in data science, biomedical science, bioinformatics, computational biology, neuroscience, statistics, computer science, or a related discipline.
• A relevant undergraduate or postgraduate degree.
• Postdoctoral research experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support the integration and management of multimodal biomarker data within the PrecisionALS research infrastructure.
• Contribute to data ingestion, curation, quality assessment, transformation, documentation, and reuse.
• Work with prospective, extant, and external datasets and support their integration into SeRP and related research systems.
• Collaborate with researchers, clinicians, data scientists, software engineers, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop practical solutions.
• Support the development and maintenance of data models, metadata, standards, and documentation for biomarker datasets.
• Contribute to data-quality processes, including validation, harmonisation, provenance, and the identification of missing or inconsistent data.
• Assist with the development of analytical datasets for biomarker research and machine-learning activities.
• Contribute to the responsible management of sensitive research data, including governance, privacy, security, and ethical considerations.
• Support technical documentation, research reports, presentations, publications, grant reporting, and research dissemination.
• Work collaboratively across relevant PrecisionALS Work Packages and research partners.
• Contribute to the requirements, design, testing, and maintenance of a secure web interface for biomarker/data capture.
• Work with researchers and data managers to translate biomarker workflows into usable web-based tools and dashboards.
• Support role-based access, pseudonymisation, auditability, accessibility, and responsible handling of sensitive research information.
• Contribute to APIs, data dictionaries, documentation, and controlled data-export workflows that connect the web interface to SeRP and related systems.
• Support user testing, training, and evaluation with research, clinical, technical, and collaboration partners.
• Undertake other duties appropriate to the level and nature of the post.

Skills

Data management

SQL

Python

Bash

Version control

Data quality

Communication

Project management

Education

PhD in data science

Relevant undergraduate or postgraduate degree

Job description

ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin seeks a Post Doctoral Researcher for the Precision ALS Research Programme to develop, integrate and analyze multimodal biomarker data. The role bridges biomedical research, data management and data science, supported by a cross-disciplinary team in Dublin.

You will help design secure web tools for data discovery and reuse, collaborate with researchers and clinicians, and advance biomarker discovery while ensuring governance, privacy and reproducibility.