Postdoctoral fellowship within Experimental Health Science - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

About the research group

The postdoctoral position will be held within the research group for Sport Sciences, which is one of sixteen research groups at the Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, and is led by Professor Eva Ageberg. We conduct interdisciplinary research with a focus on the prevention and treatment of injury or disease in the musculoskeletal system throughout the lifespan. The research is conducted in close collaboration with those who use preventive or therapeutic interventions. Read more about us here. (https://portal.research.lu.se/en/organisations/sport-sciences)

The research will take place within the Movement and Reality (MoRe) Lab under the direct supervision of Dr. Daniel Benoit. The MoRe Lab is a 450sqm state of the art facility. It houses two complete mocap rooms, instrumented treadmill, EMG systems, force platforms, Biodex, and a complete fully functional live-in home environment instrumented with monitoring systems, as well as mobile monitoring systems and an internal network to link all research platforms.

Within the research group, we strive for a workplace that develops and stimulates all employees.

Job description

Your main task as a postdoctoral fellow will be independent and collaborative scientific research in the disciplines of musculoskeletal biomechanics, sports injuries and neuromuscular control.

You will join a research program aimed at evaluating the influence of sex and puberty on Knee Joint Biomechanics and Neuromuscular Control in Healthy and knee-injured participants, mostly adolescents. You will work with existing data as well collect new data and help develop new clinical assessment protocols based on evidence derived from this data.

The following duties will be included:

• Overseeing/conducting data collection procedures;
• Review of data for quality control, data entry, data analysis, developing analysis pipelines compatible with Opensim, report writing, manuscript preparation and submission for publication;
• Development of independent and collaborative grants, presentations, and publications; and
• Additional activities commensurate with being a member of an active international research team.

As a postdoctoral fellow, you are also expected to actively participate and collaborate in seminar and meeting activities as well as other external engagements and activities aligned with the position.

Qualifications and assessment

You are eligible to be employed as a postdoctoral researcher if you have completed a doctoral degree or have a foreign degree deemed equivalent to a doctoral degree in the subject area of the position. The degree must have been completed no more than three years before the end of the application period. If there are special reasons, the doctoral degree may have been completed earlier. 

In the case of employment as a postdoctoral researcher, the following assessment criteria applies:

• Good ability to develop and implement high-quality research in musculoskeletal biomechanics, sports injuries and neuromuscular control

Additionally, the assessment is made based on the following requirements for employment:

• Doctoral degree in biomechanics, kinesiology, engineering, computer science, or a related discipline
• Strong background in motion analysis, electromyography, musculoskeletal modeling and evidence of the ability to independently use the associated instrumentation and software
• Proficiency of MATLAB, python, and/or Java programming languages
• Proficient in collecting data on healthy and/or populations with musculoskeletal injuries, ideally adolescents
• Experience with machine learning techniques and statistical analysis
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with evidence of publications and presentations
• Proficiency of English in speech and writing

Great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities. The duties require you to be flexible, take responsibility, and have the ability to work independently.

Meritorious for the position are:

• Documented experience of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
• Documented experience of work with and/or research in human performance testing.
• Good knowledge in spoken/written Swedish, other Scandinavian language or stated ambition and strategy for learning Swedish

Terms

The employment is full-time for two years according to a central agreement on limited-term

employment "Agreement on temporary employment as a postdoctoral fellow" between the labor market parties dated 2022-02-01 (Employer Agency, OFR's, Saco-S and SEKO). Start date is 1 February 2024 or as agreed.

Instructions for application

The application must include a personal letter in which you describe how you meet the qualifications sought, a CV and diploma.