Grade UE07: £40,497 - £48,149 per annum

CMVM / Institute of Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: 17 months

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for an exceptionally talented and motivated data scientist to take up a fully funded position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) as part of a British Heart Foundation Project Grant: “Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Diagnosis of Acute Cardiac Conditions in Clinical Practice,” led by Dr Dimitrios Doudesis.

The post-holder will be responsible for conducting and supporting original research, focusing on the use of health data for the development of clinical decision-support tools in acute cardiovascular care using advanced machine learning techniques, including deep learning.

Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Dimitrios Doudesis, Principal Investigator (Dimitrios.Doudesis@ed.ac.uk).

The salary for this post is £40,497 to £48,149 per annum.

Your skills and attributes for success: 

• The ability to use mainstream data science programming languages (such as R and Python) for data extraction, transferring and transforming data, and statistical data analysis.
• Experience in using one or more statistical software packages (e.g. R or similar).
• Experience working with routinely collected cardiovascular health data.
• Understanding and/or experience of machine and deep learning (e.g. XGBoost, convolutional neural networks etc.).
• Flexible, enthusiastic and confident in relating to colleagues of varying levels of seniority.  The ability to work well as part of a team.

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Application Information 

Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:

- CV

- Cover letter

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

• A competitive salary.
• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. 
• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits. 

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. 

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK. 

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is 17 June 2025. 

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Interviews will be held TBC and preferably via TEAMS.