Research Associate in Health Data

• PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science or closely related field (statistics, physics,biomedical engineering).

*Candidates who have not yet been officially awarded their PhD will be appointed as a Research Assistant within the salary range £45,399 - £48,876 per annum

• Experience with the Google Cloud Platform (Firebase, Big Query)
• Practical experience with Python and SQL.
• Knowledge of wearable, molecular and health data.
• Knowledge of research methods and statistical procedures.
• Experience communicating with multidisciplinary researchers.
• Practical experience with large-scale real-world time-series data.
• Experience with clinical or biological datasets.
• Ability to organise work independently and take initiative.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced computing skills including cloud services.

The Research Associate will join an international interdisciplinary team funded through the British Heart Foundation Programme Grant (My Heart Counts). The role focuses on developing and maintaining Google Cloud Platform pipelines for smartphone, wearable, molecular and clinical datasets to advance early detection and monitoring of pulmonary arterial hypertension. You will work closely with computational scientists, clinicians, biologists and international collaborators including Stanford, Cambridge and Sheffield, contributing to new AI models and translational research across NHS and academic sites.

Support and develop data pipelines for My Heart Counts smartphone app data and integrate with clinical, biological (omics), and environmental datasets; manage cloud resources (Google Cloud) and ensure data integrity and reliability; assist researchers across institutions with data queries and troubleshooting; perform descriptive and quantitative data analyses and maintain accurate records; support preparation of reports for sponsors and contribute to publications; present work at internal meetings, conferences and workshops; provide guidance to staff and students and contribute to grant bids.

This is a part time (21 h/w) and a fixed-term (2 years ) in the first instance, with the possibility of extension based on project progress and funding availability.

If you require any further details on the role, please contact: Allan Lawrie [a.lawrie@imperial.ac.uk]