Post-Doc position available

This is an opportunity for a Post-Doc position in the Rebholz group at the EBI for about 6 months or more. The opportunity would be available from July onwards and the latest starting point would be in October 2010. The position gives the opportunity to do research in

1. Named entity recognition using large-scale resources in the biomedical domain, exploitation of the term repository, optimisation of NER on the CALBC corpus and other corpora, disambiguation of ambiguous types over the full range of semantic types
2. Extraction of facts and assertions from a pre-tagged corpus, parsing of a large annotated corpus, cross-validation against bioinformatics data resources
3. Semantic Web data retrieval across literature, functional annotations of proteins and expression levels of proteins, contribution to the annotation of gene-disease annotations
4. Any combination of (1) – (3) that is scientifically sound, fits to the Rebholz group and fits to your own interests

My ongoing research:

• Normalisation of terminological resources and their exploitation for literature analysis and bioinformatics research
• To a limited extend: different forms of parsing for fact extraction
• Fact and assertion extraction from the literature, cross-comparison against bioinformatics data resources, knowledge discovery, identification of explicit and implicit gene-disease associations
• We work on Medline, patents and full text. We have developed applications, but are now more focused to core research and knowledge discovery.

Application requirements

• PhD has to be awarded,you are a Post-Doc, you want to do research, you want to publish, you want to profit from an interdisciplinary environment
• Funding:
  • (a) If you have have your own funding, then I will contribute to living and expenses
  • (b) If you don’t have your own funding, then we can negotiate the funding
  • (c) given (a) or (b) AND you want to bring a student, then we can negotiate the same details for your student
• No Travel Costs will be re-imbursed
• Members from non-European states will require Visa Exemption

Application format:

• Letter of motivation (1 page, > 10pt): why do you want this position, what do you want to do next (at the EBI, after the EBI), what funding are you on, would would you want to bring a student along, why is it good for you to be at the EBI, why is it good for RebholzGrp/EBI to have you on board.
• Research statement (1 page, > 10pt): Your past and present research, where are your strengths, which direction do you want to develop, what do you need to do for your next step, what long-term prospect is in your research
• Curriculum Vitae (1 page, chronological order, > 10pt): major educational steps, main achievements, main projects, main other things
• Publication list (1 page, > 8pt font): some statistics (total number of publications, total number as first author), typical journals you publish, list of either
  • (1) the most relevant publications, or
  • (2) the last X publications, or
  • (3) your publications as first author, or
  • (4) the publications with the highest impact according to your belief., or
  • (5) any combination of (1)-(4)
• Everything IN A SINGLE PDF FILE (not more than 4 pages) has to be sent via email !!