Karolinska Institutet 
Solna, Sweden Offer Summary
Karolinska Institutet in Solna, Sweden, seeks a Research Assistant for the Women’s Mental Health Epidemiology group. This one-year full-time position focuses on reproductive health disparities in women with autism or ADHD under Dr. Miriam Martini. The role involves managing a research project from literature review to publication using large-scale population registers. Essential qualifications include a Master's degree in epidemiology, public health, psychology, or related fields, plus proficiency in R or SAS and statistical analysis skills. Candidates must demonstrate strong project management abilities and excellent English communication. Meriting criteria involve prior experience with neurodivergent populations, large datasets, or scientific writing. The institute offers a collaborative environment, collective agreement benefits, and access to wellness facilities. Applicants submit their CV via Varbi, answering specific questions instead of providing a cover letter.
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Project Description
Do you want to contribute to better health for all?
Join the Women’s Mental Health Epidemiology group at Karolinska Institutet, where interdisciplinary research bridges obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry, and epidemiology to address important questions in women’s health across the life course.
Working closely with Dr. Miriam Martini, you will contribute to innovative research on the reproductive health of women with autism and/or ADHD, an area where important health disparities remain understudied. As a research assistant, you will gain hands-on experience working with large-scale population registers and cohorts while contributing to research with the potential to improve health outcomes and societal participation. This position offers an opportunity to develop strong epidemiological research skills within a collaborative and internationally recognised research environment.
Your mission
As a research assistant, you will take an active role in our ongoing research aiming to identify reproductive health disparities and contributing factors in women diagnosed with autism/ADHD. You will take responsibility for a research project and follow it through from reviewing the existing literature to conducting the study and preparing the findings for publication.
The position is a fixed-term employment for one year.
Your profile
The following are essential criteria:
- Master's degree in a relevant discipline, which can include (but is not restricted to) epidemiology, public health, psychology or a related medical science.
- Competence in programming in a relevant statistical software, ideally R or SAS.
- Competence in statistical analyses, including familiarity with regression models.
- Experience of project management and the ability to work to deadlines.
- Good written and spoken English skills.
- A clear motivation for wanting to work within women’s mental health epidemiology, particularly in neurodivergent populations.
The following are meriting criteria:
- Prior experience with autism or psychiatry. This can include research experience, clinical experience, or personal experience.
- Prior experience working with large datasets and knowledge of survival analysis.
- Prior experience writing scientific articles.
We attach great importance to personal qualities in this recruitment. As a person, you are:
- Curious
- Able to work collaboratively in diverse teams, as well as independently
- Ethically minded and respectful of the perspectives of individuals with lived experience of autism and mental health problems
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. Our vision is to pursue the development of knowledge about life and to promote a better health for all. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several good benefits through our collective agreement. And you get to practice freely in our modern wellness facilities, where trained staff are on site.
Location: Solna
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Application
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.In this recruitment, you will apply with your CV without a personal letter. Instead, you will answer some questions about why you are applying for the job in the application form.