The University Medical Center Göttingen is a tertiary care center and offers great development potential. Its 7400 employees work in over 65 departments and facilities to provide top-quality patient care, excellent research and modern teaching. Göttingen, “City of Science”, lies near the center of Germany and its University is embedded in the city’s attractive network of scientific research facilities. Within the Center of Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology several institutes are working together in the research and application of statistical and informatics methodology to analyze and interpret biomedical data.

At the Department of Medical Statistics of the University Medical Center Göttingen we are seeking

PhD students
in the areas of Bioinformatics, Computer Science and Biostatistics
(fixed-term contracts, salary according to TV-L 13 50%)

Within different research consortia and a newly founded junior research group in Network Medicine we have several openings for PhD student positions.

We are developing tools and methods to integrate and interpret different types of Omics data in a unversity hospital setting and are applying these in the context of oncological research and in medical applications. Here, we are looking for

(1) PhD students to work on the analysis, integration and visualization approaches to work with molecular pathways in the context of high- throughput Omics data.

(2) PhD students to work on modeling of knowledge on biological networks and the extension of network-based approaches in the field of systems medicine.

Please send your application by email only (in PDF-format) until January 9th 2017. Women are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants with disabilities and equal qualifications will be given
preferential treatment.


Contact:

Prof. Dr. Tim Beissbarth
University Medical Center Göttingen
Department of Medical Statistics
Humboldtallee 32
37073 Göttingen
Phone: 0551/39-4990
Fax: 0551/39-4995

Secretariat: Ms Dorit Meyer
Mail: sekretariat.ams@med.uni-goettingen.de
Web: http://www.ams.med.uni-goettingen.de/