Call for PhD Students in Computational Medicine

Location Krakow, Poland

Employment type Contract for 4 years

Region / State / Province małopolskie

About job:

If you’re thinking of doing a PhD, you’re interested in computational medicine and are looking at various options, Sano might be just the place for you.

Sano is a new nonprofit research institute dedicated to the advancement of computational medicine, developing sophisticated computer methods for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, to meet the overarching worldwide need for efficient, effective and streamlined healthcare.

We recognize that it is all about the skills of people involved in the project, to develop Sano into the world-class research centre for advanced computational medicine.

We’re looking for the best people around and invite all students interested in applied research within computational medicine to apply. Sano recognizes the key importance of excellent doctoral research and aims to create stimulating and innovative environment where talents can be optimally developed.

By applying, you will let us know about your interest in pursuing PhD education at Sano. Over time, we will be adding more and more PhD topics, we are looking for PhD students to work at all of our Research Groups – Healthcare Informatics, Computer Vision Data Science, Modeling and Simulation, Clinical Data Science, Personal Health Data Science and Extreme-Scale Data and Computing.

We’re waiting for you!

What are you going to do?

You are expected to:

do original research under the direction of your supervisor;
participate in the many seminars by internal and external speakers as well as journal clubs and group activities;
collaborate with other PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers and other Sano employees, you will have the opportunity to co-learn advanced coding techniques with experienced scientific programmers and data scientists.

What do we require?

As our successful candidate you should have:

Master’s degree (completed or near completion) or 1^st Class undergraduate Honours degree in a relevant discipline, including but not limited to computer science, biomedical engineering, physics, mathematics, data science, medical sciences;
interest in pursuing applied research in a multi-disciplinary environment;
excellent written and oral English communication skills.

Our offer

We offer a fixed term contract for 40 hours per week for the duration of 4 years. This will be supported by an educational plan that includes attendance of courses and (international) meetings. The contract will include opportunities to participate in teaching and supervision of undergraduate and master students.

The salary, depending on relevant experience before the beginning of the employment contract, will be up to 8000 PLN gross per month, based on a full-time contract (40 hours a week) for the duration of 4 years with private medical care and a sports card.

Sano itself doesn’t award degrees – the PhD will be a collaboration between us and one of our partners, including University of Sheffield or AGH University of Science and Technology. The student will be based in Poland, Krakow operating in conjunction with the Cyfronet supercomputing centre hosted by AGH. The student is expected to spend approximately 6 months on international visits to collaborating institutions during the contract.

Sano offers excellent opportunities for study and development, an access to many international conferences on computational medicine and a possibility to grow in a scientific society.