Research Fellow (PSDI)

Location: Highfield Campus

Half Time Everlasting (21 hours every week)

Interview Date: To be confirmed

The Bodily Science Information Infrastructure (PSDI) initiative is an EPSRC funded giant scale infrastructure mission. PSDI goals to allow researchers in bodily sciences to deal with information extra simply by connecting and enhancing the totally different information infrastructures they use. By means of PSDI researchers will be capable to:  

•   Discover and Entry reference high quality information from business and open sources  
•   Mix information from totally different sources  
•   Share information, software program and fashions together with experimental and simulation information  
•   Deploy close-to-data computation and containerisation of information and software program  
•   Use AI to discover information  
•   Make the outcomes of their analysis open and FAIR  

We’re searching for an enthusiastic researcher with a background in working with scientific information and glorious communication abilities to affix our group and conduct supporting analysis for PSDI along with endeavor scientific communication duties comparable to social media engagement and the preparation and dissemination of a spread of PSDI materials.  

Candidates will need to have a PhD, equal skilled {qualifications} or expertise, a background in a scientific topic and glorious communication abilities. The power to exhibit information science abilities and a expertise for drawback fixing is a should. You’ll encounter a variety of applied sciences and information in your analysis and will probably be given many alternatives to achieve new abilities. We do not count on you to be proficient in all the things, however it is important that you just get pleasure from exploring new analysis areas and are adaptable to studying concerning the totally different mission areas. You’ll have alternatives to work on a number of analysis areas throughout the mission, together with information conversion, course of recording and totally different points of digitisation. There will even be alternatives to contribute to the mission’s scientific communication, spanning from social media, occasions and getting ready supplies for dissemination throughout PSDI channels.  

You’ll make a precious contribution to PSDI’s objectives, making contributions from analysis to person engagement and have the potential to develop your individual areas of experience. There will probably be alternatives to develop abilities to advance your profession and construct on abilities exterior of analysis and scientific communication, comparable to mission administration and coaching.  

This can be a everlasting place contingent on continued funding, whereby the primary occasion of funding is assured till January 2026. That is at present a component time place however there could also be scope to transform it right into a full time place relying on timescales and continued funding. The put up relies on the College of Southampton within the College of Engineering and Bodily Sciences.  

Equality, range and Inclusion is central to the ethos in Chemistry, having held an Athena SWAN Silver award since 2014. We notably encourage ladies, Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME), LGBT and disabled candidates to use for this place. Chemistry considers candidates that want to work flexibly, and due consideration is given to candidates who’ve taken a profession break. The College has a beneficiant maternity coverage and onsite childcare amenities.  For additional data please go to https://www.southampton.ac.uk/chemistry/about/Equality/index.web page   

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*Purposes will probably be thought of from candidates who’re working in direction of or nearing completion of a related PhD qualification. The title of Analysis Fellow will probably be utilized upon completion of PhD.  Previous to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Analysis Assistant will probably be given.