Dear colleagues

we are announcing an open post, suitable for a postdoctoral or early-career senior researcher interested in building up an own research career in the field of lifecourse epidemiology and register research. The employer in this particular job is the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL); the research group is based both at University of Oulu/OYS and THL, and the post can be located at either Oulu or Helsinki THL offices.

We invite applications and also would be delighted if you could spread the job announcement below to your relevant contacts. The deadline is on 11 June (noon Finnish time). I will be happy to answer any questions.

The National Institute for Health and Welfare of Finland has an open post for an experienced senior researcher in the research project ” NORDCAP Nordic Research on Children and Adults born Preterm”.

Project description. NORDCAP is a multidisciplinary consortium project funded by the European Commission and Academy of Finland. The aim of NORDCAP is to promote the health and well-being of children and adults born preterm and to study underlying risk and protective factors. Together with our Nordic Partners, we harmonise data from Nordic social and healthcare registers and employ new methods for secure joint and remote use of large register datasets. NORDCAP is a part of EU-funded project RECAP Research on Children and Adults Born Preterm (www.recap-preterm.euhttp://www.recap-preterm.eu/). A main goal of RECAP is to harmonise and combine follow-up datasets (also other than register datasets) of children and adults born preterm from within and outside Europe.

Job description. The main tasks of the senior researcher is to author scientific manuscripts together with the research group and collaborators on jointly agreed important research questions in the fields of health, behavioural or social sciences. The tasks include data analysis together with a statistical expert and, as applicable, tasks related to data collection, harmonization and management. The senior researcher takes also part in preparation of new national and international collaborative projects, in applying for research funding, and in other research projects and expert assignments of the research group.

The successful candidate will have a doctoral degree or a Title of Docent / Associate Professor status and is able to demonstrate a track record of high quality international scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. We expect the candidate to master standard statistical methods in epidemiological research and be able and interested to learn new methods by working with a statistical expert. The applicable field of expertise may be a substance field such as health, behavioural or social sciences, or a method field such as statistics. There can be flexibility in the requirement of a doctoral degree in case of a candidate with a particularly strong publication track record.

The working language of NORDCAP is English.

We offer the possibility to be a part of a research group at the international top of the research area and to work with a multidisciplinary international consortium with the unique resource of Nordic national registers. The post will offer good possibilities to build up an own research career.

Place of employment: National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Public Health Solutions, Public Health Promotion Unit. The research group and the Unit have activities in Oulu and Helsinki, and the post can be located at either of these THL offices. The task will include periods spent at Nordic collaborating institutions (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim; and Capital Health Region, Copenhagen) and seminar and congress travel.

Duration of employment. Employment starts on 12 August 2019, or as agreed, and continues to end of the project on 30 June 2022, full time or nearly full time (80-100%). The employment period starts with a trial period. A standard security assessment will be required from the successful candidate.

Salary conforms to the payroll system of the National Institute for Health and Welfare.

Please submit your application with an attached CV and list of publications by Tuesday 11 June 2019 at 12:00 noon Finnish time (UTC+3) at Valtiolle.fihttp://valtiolle.fi/ portal (https://www.valtiolle.fi/en-US, job id 33-216-2019) or by e-mail to Kirjaamo@thl.fimailto:Kirjaamo@thl.fi . Please mark the subject field “Senior Researcher NORDCAP 33-216-2019.”

Additional information: Eero Kajantie, Principal Investigator, THL and University of Oulu , PEDEGO Research Unit, eero.kajantie@oulu.fi or eero.kajantie@thl.fimailto:eero.kajantie@thl.fi , +358-29-5248610

Eero Kajantie

Elämänkaarilääketieteen professori / Professor of lifecourse medicine

Oulun yliopisto, PEDEGO-tutkimusyksikkö / University of Oulu, PEDEGO Research Unit

PL 8000, 90014 Oulu, Finland

Tutkimuspäällikkö / Research manager

Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos, kansanterveyden edistäminen -yksikkö / National Institute for Health and Welfare, Public Health Promotion Unit

PL 30, 00271 Helsinki tai/or PL 310, 90101 Oulu, Finland

Guest Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Trondheim, Norway

Erikoislääkäri (lastentaudit, perinnöllisyyslääketiede, terveydenhuolto) / Specialist in Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics and Public Health

Tel. +358-29-5248610

eero.kajantie@oulu.fimailto:eero.kajantie@oulu.fi; eero.kajantie@thl.fimailto:eero.kajantie@thl.fi,