What you can expect

• Coordinate the Nested Project 3 of the Swiss Ped Health National Data Stream: collaborate with clinical data warehouses, lung function services and other hospitals to build the infrastructure allowing the transfer of clinical lung function data to the data centers and to a centralized national database (https://www.swisspedhealth.ch/nested_project_3.html)
• Build automated quality control algorithms for lung function measurements
• Maintain and improve existing research software and develop and test new research tools for analysis
• Analyze (third-parties) data with existing analysis tools
• Document newly developed analysis methods and write manuals for new software applications
• Collaborate and work with Ph D students, medical doctors and study nurses

Your Profile

• Master degree or Ph D in (life science) engineering, computer science, physics or equivalent
• Excellent programming skills in Python and/or Matlab
• Proficient in signal processing
• Experience with databases and SQL
• Willingness to work in an interdisciplinary research group and to take the main responsibility for technical aspects
• Fluent in English and preferably in German

• Diligent, well-organized, proactive, team worker and able to work independently
• Knowledge of clinical environment and/or data quality control
• Knowledge of spectroscopy and molar mass sensors
• Knowledge of lung function tests like Spirometry and Multiple Breath Washout (MBW)

What we offer

• Flexible work environment
• Take part into a national effort (Swiss Ped Health) to make collected data across Children's Hospitals in Switzerland interoperable, standardized and quality-controlled.
• A well-equipped lung function laboratory with around 2000 lung function tests per year both for clinics and research), with several Ph D-students, post-docs and study nurses working on various research projects, headed by Prof. Philipp Latzin.