Karolinska Institutet 
Huddinge, Sweden Sintesi dell’opportunità
Karolinska Institutet in Sweden seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher in Pharmacometrics for its Department of Laboratory Medicine. This full-time, temporary position focuses on developing and applying advanced population PK/PD, PBPK, and translational modelling methods to address clinically relevant questions regarding neglected tropical and other infectious diseases. The role involves planning analyses, interpreting findings, publishing results, and contributing to interdisciplinary collaborations and grant applications within Joel Tärning's research group. Candidates must hold a PhD in pharmacometrics or an equivalent field, with recent completion preferred. Applicants benefit from working at a world-leading medical university with extensive expertise and strong ties to healthcare providers. The application requires specific academic documents submitted via the Varbi system, with salary determined individually according to collective agreements.
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Descrizione del progetto
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?
Would you like to develop and apply advanced models that can help improve drug treatment and health? As a postdoctoral researcher in pharmacometrics at Karolinska Institutet, you will work with population PK/PD modelling, physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling, and translational modelling and simulation. The research focuses particularly on neglected tropical diseases and other infectious diseases, within an international and interdisciplinary research environment. There will also be opportunities to collaborate with other research groups and disease areas across KI.
Your mission
You will develop and apply pharmacometric methods to address clinically relevant questions about medicines and treatment. Your work will include population PK/PD analyses, PBPK modelling, and translational modelling and simulation. You will plan and conduct analyses, interpret findings, and communicate results through scientific publications and presentations. Projects will focus primarily on neglected tropical diseases and other infectious diseases, while also allowing for collaboration with other research groups and disease areas across KI. You will contribute to interdisciplinary collaborations and may take part in supervision and the development of research projects. You are also expected to contribute to grant applications with the group PI.
Your profile
To be eligible for employment as a postdoctoral researcher, a PhD in a field relevant to pharmacometrics or a foreign degree deemed to be equivalent to a Swedish PhD is required. This eligibility requirement must be fulfilled at the latest at the time of the employment decision. Completion of your doctoral degree within the last three years is considered an advantage. If there are special reasons, your degree may have been completed earlier.
What do we offer?
A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement.
Location: Flemingsberg
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Application
An employment application must contain the following documents in English or Swedish:
- PhD certificate
- A complete resumé, including date of the thesis defence, title of the thesis, previous academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work
- A complete list of publications
- A summary of current work (no more than one page)
KI applies individual and differentiated salary setting in accordance with our collective agreements RALS and RALS-T
The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.
