19.03.2024

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/d, E 13 TV-L, 100%)

University of Tübingen and Boehringer Ingelheim AI & Data Science Fellowship Program

Application deadline: 30.04.2024

The AI & Data Science Fellowship Program, a cooperation between the University of Tübingen, distinguished as excellent by the Federal Government of Germany, and Boehringer Ingelheim, a leading pharmaceutical company, is inviting applications for a

Postdoctoral Research Fellow – AI & Data Science (f/m/d; E13 TV-L, 100%)

to work on cutting-edge and exciting AI & data science research topics that generate real added value for human and animal healthcare.

The initial fixed-term contract will start as soon as possible and have a duration of 2 years with possible extension.

About the project

Medical and pharmaceutical innovation relies on clinical trials as a crucial quality control step. Most trials are delayed or altogether fail due to unrealistic trials design. This project aims to fundamentally change the way in which clinical trials are designed, and recruited for, by:

• training and fine-tuning foundation models for trial design and matching,
• reducing model hallucinations via retrieval-augmented generation,
• providing additional context via multi-modal grounding.

This project will advance our basic scientific understanding of foundation models while having considerable practical impact on life sciences.

Your host: UT Health NLP Lab, led by Carsten Eickhoff.

Collaborating scientist: Carina Reinicke (Global Clinical Development & Operations) at Boehringer Ingelheim.

Your profile

The ideal candidate will bring:

• a Ph.D. or equivalent in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, or a related discipline
• demonstrated experience in machine learning, deep learning, and NLP techniques, in particular generative language models
• proficiency in programming languages such as Python and experience with NLP frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch)
• a track record of publishing in high-impact journals and conferences
• excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• the ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team

Our offer

What this position offers you:

• exciting research at Europe’s leading AI campus
• access to state-of-the-art research facilities and computational resources
• cooperation with a research-driven global pharmaceutical company
• opportunities for professional development, including conference attendance and collaboration with international researchers
• a collegial work atmosphere
• career mentoring
• opportunity to gain leadership experience by supervising research assistants
• extensive visa and onboarding assistance

We value diversity in science, and particularly look forward to receiving applications from women, non-binary people, and researchers from underrepresented groups across cultures, genders, ethnicities, and lifestyles. We actively promote the compatibility of science, work, studies, family life and care work. In case of equal qualification and experience, physically challenged applicants are given preference.

How to apply

Please send your application (including a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and the contact details of 2 academic references) with the subject “Application: UT/BI Postdoctoral Fellowship” via e-mail to Carsten Eickhoff:

carsten.eickhoffspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de.

Application deadline: April 30th, 2024