Research Assistant for SNSF research project 40 - 50 % (limited to two years) | ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Date de publication :
05 octobre 2024Taux d'activité :
40 – 50%Type de contrat :
Durée indéterminée- Lieu de travail :Winterthur
Data scientist for SNSF research project 40 - 50 % (limited to two years)
Would you like to gain experience at an application-oriented research institute at the ZHAW? Use your knowledge and methodological skills in an innovative SNSF research project in the field of health and empirical legal research?
School: School of Management and Law
Starting date: November 2024 (or by agreement)
As a data scientist, you will be part of a team carrying out an SNSF/Innosuisse Bridge Discovery research project (ti-tle: Quality indicators of polydisciplinary medical expert reports from the perspective of social security studies/law and empirical legal studies; project start). The project explores the quality of medical reports based on court data. The interdisciplinary project team comprises researchers from the ZHAW and the Center for Legal Data Science (CLDS) at the UZH. Your responsibilities include:
- maintaining and further developing an existing text annotation tool (Inception) using Python
- collaboration with the annotation team
- data cleaning, performing consistency and reliability checks
- contribution to the data analysis
- participation in the dissemination process and the open-access publication of the data
- BSc in data science or BSc in computer science a related quantitative field. Candidates in their final years of study or pursuing a Master's degree are also encouraged to apply
- excellent knowledge of Python
- ability to work independently
- good knowledge of NLP (e.g., sentiment analysis, regular expressions)
ideally:
- good knowledge of statistics
- good knowledge of German
- familiarity with Inception
- familiarity with Github/Gitlab
Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW is one of Switzerland's largest multidisciplinary universities of applied sciences, with over 14'000 students and 3'400 faculty and staff.
ZHAW is committed to gender-mixed and diverse teams in order to promote equality, diversity and innovation.
The ZHAW School of Management and Law (SML) is one of the largest business schools in Switzerland with around 9,500 students. It is the only university of applied sciences in the country that is included in renowned rankings published by the business newspaper “Financial Times" and is accredited by AACSB and EQUIS – labels for high quality standards in teaching, research and further education.
The internationally recognized bachelor's and master's degree programs, cooperative PhD programs and the numerous continuing education offerings are scientifically sound, interdisciplinary and practice oriented. The SML maintains numerous collaborations with over 190 selected partner universities worldwide.
The Winterthur Institute of Health Economics (WIG) is a center of competence for economic and business administration issues in the field of health care. The WIG supports various public and private stakeholders in the health care sector, in particular through innovative projects and expert studies.
Wir bieten hochschulgerechte Arbeits- und Anstellungsbedingungen an und fördern aktiv die Personalentwicklung unserer Mitarbeitenden und Führungspersonen. Eine detaillierte Beschreibung der Vorteile ist auf der Webseite «Arbeiten an der ZHAW» zu finden. Hier die wichtigsten Eckpunkte:
Dr. Szilvia Altwicker-Hámori
Principal Investigator of the SNSF research project
Jocelyn Schaad
Recruiting Manager
Contact
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften