英国伦敦国王学院招聘遗传学博士后

Applications are invited for a Research Associate in Genetics of High Cognitive Abilities to join a collaborative research team headed by Dr Gerome Breen and Professor Robert Plomin within the MRC SGDP Centre. The centre is a world leader in genetic research of cognitive and psychiatric traits, and houses state-of-the-art genomics equipment and bioinformatic infrastructure within a multidisciplinary research environment.

The successful candidate will be a member of a multidisciplinary research team that includes statistical and quantitative geneticists, laboratory genetics, a genomics core, biostatisticians and clinical informaticians. The postholder will also attending meetings with the Statistical Genetics Unit at KCL (lead Prof Cathryn Lewis).

The postholder will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with experience of work in a Unix/Linux environment, formal training in statistics is desirable as well as experience and familiarity with statistical genetic methods. Knowledge of bioinformatics tools and programming would be an advantage.