英国伦敦国王学院遗传和发展精神病学中心博士后职位

Post Doctoral Research Worker
MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre
Institute of Psychiatry - King's College London
11/R113

3 Years fixed term

We would like to invite applications for the position of Postdoctoral Research Worker with a range of skills including data management, analysis of twin data, and writing of empirical papers. The successful candidate will conduct Children of Twins (CoT) analyses using combined datasets of child twin pairs and parent twin pairs funded by the Leverhulme Trust to Dr Thalia Eley. The questions to be explored relate to the links between aspects of parenting and child emotional development during adolescence.

The successful candidate will work as part of an active research team and will collaborate with 3 international collaborators in Sweden & the USA. The post-holder will undertake training in CoT analyses during visits with the collaborators: Dr Jurgita Narusyte & Prof Paul Lichtenstein (Sweden) and Prof Jenae Neiderhiser (US), and will then need to work relatively autonomously. The applicant will be expected to write and contribute to the writing of multiple papers each year. Over-all supervision will be provided by Dr Thalia Eley.

It is essential that the successful candidate will have a Ph.D. or equivalent in which they undertook analysis of large twin datasets. Relevant data management skills (managing and combining of large complex datasets) are also essential, as is an interest in developing complex twin models and translating twin models from Mx into OpenMx. The candidate should demonstrate an interest in communicating messages from genetic research to a wide audience experience with writing and publishing papers of high scientific standards.

Experience working with OpenMX is desirable, but someone trained only in Mx is acceptable.

The interviews for this post will be undertaken in October 2011

Starting salary will be £33,193 per annum, inclusive of £2,323 London Allowance.

To obtain further particulars and further information about the Institute, please see our website at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs or alternatively email vacancies@iop.kcl.ac.uk . Completed applications should be emailed to this address. Please quote reference number 11/R113 in all correspondence.

Closing date for applications 30th September 2011.

Only candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted.