<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:1jtn" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:1jtr" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Cuerpo del mensaje" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:1m10" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:1m0w" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Cuerpo del mensaje" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:1kuq" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:1kuu" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Cuerpo del mensaje" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:1jtn" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:1jtr" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Cuerpo del mensaje" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>We are looking for motivated candidates to work on biomedical text mining and NLP at my group, mainly on topics related to biomedical NLP (biomaterials) in the context of two large Horizon Europe international projects which enable direct collaboration with clinical sites, research groups as well as technological partners.</div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Reference:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> 273_22_LS_TM_RE2</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Job title:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Research Engineer - Text Mining (RE2)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Applications procedure and process</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </span><a href="https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/27322lstmre2" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/27322lstmre2</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Context And Mission</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Text Mining Unit (PI Martin Krallinger) has
several research lines related to biomedical and clinical NLP and Text Mining
activities with particular interest in implementing advanced deep
learning/transformer based approaches as well as building and exploiting domain
specific language models.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Through collaboration with research groups,
hospitals as well as project partners (Horizon Projects) our aim is to develop
real world applications related to semantic annotation (NER) components, entity
linking, semantic text similarity, building and exploiting text-derived
knowledge graph as well as domain specific machine translation technologies.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We search for a Research Engineer in text mining /
Natural Language Processing (NLP), medical informatics, computational
linguistics or language engineering with a strong background in Machine
Learning (ML), who will be responsible for the implementation of text mining
tools for the Horizon BIOMATDB (<a href="https://biomatdb.eu">https://biomatdb.eu</a>) project.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Key Duties</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Design, implementation, and evaluation of text
mining, NLP, deep learning and ML tools and models applied to the
biomaterials, chemistry, biology and biomedical application domain.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Coordination and organization of shared tasks
and evaluation campaigns (like BioASQ, IberLEF,..).</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Technical coordination and supervision of
annotation projects to generate high-quality text corpora.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Integration of results and components into a
biomaterials knowledgebase.</span></li>
</ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Requirements</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Education</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University degree in computer science,
mathematics, statistics, Chemical engineering, materials engineering, data
scientist, physics, bioinformatics, telecommunications, electrical
engineering or equivalent.</span></li>
</ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Experience with Deep Learning and statistical
data mining frameworks: Keras, Tensorflow, PySpark, PyTorch, Spacy, etc.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Experience with ML algorithms and techniques:
LDA, Topic Modelling, LSTM, KNN, SVM, Decision Trees, Clustering, Word
Embeddings, etc.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Experience in the development or management of
software resources/tools, Github + Github projects.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Experience with NLP components and platforms.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Experience with named
entity recognition and entity linking methodologies. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Strong programming skills in at least one of
the following languages: Python, C++, Scala, R, Java.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Experience and skills related to bash, Docker,
Kubernetes, Unity testing, Collab</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Competences</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interest in biomaterial sciences, biomedicine
and related application domains</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Good communication and presentation skills.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Strong technical writing skills.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ability to work both independently and within
a team.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Used to work under pressure under strict
deadlines</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conditions</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The position will be located at BSC within the
Life Sciences Department</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We offer a full-time contract, a good working
environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art
infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, tickets
restaurant, private health insurance, fully support to the relocation
procedures</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical
and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Salary: we offer a competitive salary
commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and
according to the cost of living in Barcelona</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Starting date: ASAP</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">About BSC</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro
Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in
Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in
Europe, and is a hosting member of the PRACE European distributed
supercomputing infrastructure. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and
manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC
combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational
science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently
has over 770 staff from 55 countries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>=======================================<br>Martin Krallinger, Dr.<br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Head of Biological Text Mining Unit<br>Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-krallinger-85495920/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-krallinger-85495920/</a><br></font> =======================================</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>