Doctoral Research Fellowship in Multi-Omics at Centre for Precision Psychiatry

Three-year doctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, with the Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, available from January 2027. The position is part of Back2Future (Multimodal metabolic markers for mechanisms and predictive trajectories of Alzheimer's disease), funded by the Research Council of Norway's TOPPFORSK programme and led by Professor Srdjan Djurovic.

The project seeks heritable, early metabolic and protein biomarkers in blood that predict Alzheimer's disease risk decades before symptoms, combining metabolomics and proteomics with genetics, brain MRI, cognition and health-registry data from Norwegian and Nordic cohorts such as DemGene, HUNT, HUSK, the Tromsø Study and MoBa, alongside UK Biobank, Estonian Biobank and ADNI. Salary NOK 580,000-630,000 (code 1017).

Master's degree in a relevant discipline (molecular biology, genetics, biostatistics, medicine, psychology or equivalent); strong English; programming (R, Python and/or MATLAB) and big-data analysis.