Postdoctoral Research Scientist (Data Science)

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description . Postdoctoral Research Scientist (Data Science). QIB - Quadram Institute Bioscience. Norwich, United Kingdom. GBP 39,000 - 46,500 per year. Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Scientist position in the Hildebrand group at the Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), Norwich, UK. Background. Poor mental health is a major global health challenge, and growing evidence points to interactions between diet, lifestyle, the gut microbiome and mental wellbeing. This project will investigate their interaction using large-scale cohort data. The role. Within NUTRIMIND ( https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101287404 ) standardised data from >20 European cohorts is being generated, covering dietary intake, metagenomics, metabolomics and mental-health measures. The successful applicant will integrate and analysing these datasets to identify reproducible relationships between data layers, including:. harmonising heterogeneous dietary, microbiome, metabolomic and mental-health datasets;. reproducible statistical analysis workflows for longitudinal and multi-omics datasets;. causal-inference analysis to understand the role of gut microbiomes;. using validated machine-learning models to develop robust health predictions across cohorts. Building on previous work from the group ( doi:10.1016/j.chom.2023.05.024 , doi:10.1038/s41531-025-00885-5 , doi:10.1016/j.chom.2021.05.008 ), the project