Re: Post Doctoral Researcher Position at DERI Galway

Certainly might be "useful" to have him as part of the bid.

Robert.
At 15:37 03/09/2010, Matthias Samwald wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>The HCLS team at DERI is expanding -- this might 
>be of interest to some readers of this mailing 
>list. Please don't hesitate to write an e-mail if you have any questions.
>
>Cheers,
>Matthias Samwald
>DERI Galway
>
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>
>Post Doctoral Researcher (2,5 year post)
>
>DERI – National University of Ireland, Galway
>
>
>
>The Unit for Health Care and Life Sciences 
>(HCLS) at the Digital Enterprise Research 
>Institute (DERI: 
><http://typo3/http://www.deri.ie>http://www.deri.ie/) 
>of the National University of Ireland, Galway 
>invites applications for a full-time post 
>doctoral research position. As part of the 
>position, the successful candidate will 
>participate in an FP7 project with the goal of 
>improving collaboration and data sharing in cancer prevention research.
>
>DERI is a leading research institute in semantic 
>technologies that offers a stimulating, dynamic 
>and multi-cultural research environment, 
>excellent ties to research-groups worldwide, 
>close collaboration with industrial partners and 
>up-to-date infrastructure and resources.
>
>The DERI HCLS group 
>(<http://typo3/http://hcls.deri.ie/>http://hcls.deri.ie/) 
>has a focus on applied research in the use of 
>semantics in solving some key societal problems 
>- we are getting older, we are getting sicker, 
>and our drugs are getting more expensive. As 
>part of our effort to address inefficiencies in 
>various phases of the drug R&D process we are 
>developing the use of semantics to make easier 
>the process of knowledge discovery in in-silica 
>research. The successful candidate will be 
>instrumental in driving this area of research 
>forward, involving research in the use of 
>biomedical ontologies, concepts such as linked 
>data, semantic web technologies, social networks 
>to provide methods, tools, and techniques to 
>enable life scientists interact more effectively 
>with one another, extract knowledge from 
>existing and new literature, and ensure that 
>their own knowledge is disseminated effectively. 
>Research in the DERI HCLS research group is 
>carried out in close collaboration with other 
>research units in DERI, along with other 
>collaborating institutions and industrial partners.
>
>Candidates should have an excellent PhD in 
>Biomedical Informatics / Bioinformatics / 
>Computer Science / Computational Biology or 
>related fields. Experience with Semantic Web / 
>Linked Data technologies, terminologies / 
>ontologies, data integration and web 
>technologies is an advantage. Successful 
>candidates are expected to have the willingness 
>to combine formal scientific work with hands-on 
>evaluation with life scientists.
>
>
>
>Please send your application (CV, two letters of 
>reference) in PDF format  via e-mail to 
>ronan.fox AT deri.org – by October 15th, 2010.
>
>
>
>Further details can be obtained from:
>
>
>
>Ronan Fox
>
>Domain for Health Care and Life Sciences
>
>DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway
>
>IDA Business Park,
>
>Lower Dangan,
>
>Galway, Ireland
>
>
>
>E-Mail: ronan.fox AT deri.org
>
>
>
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Robert Stevens
Reader in BioHealth Informatics
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
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Robert.Stevens@manchester.ac.uk
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