.Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL)Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI)Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE)Type: Full timeLevel: ExperiencedOpen: 17 January 2025Posted: 17 December 2024About BSC: 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 now a hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, leading large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe.
The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies to facilitate scientific progress.Context And Mission: The Global Health Resilience (GHR) group led by ICREA Research Professor Rachel Lowe at BSC - CNS is seeking a highly motivated data scientist to co-create robust harmonised datasets and dashboards for decision-support tools to enhance surveillance, preparedness, and response to global health challenges, including climate-sensitive infectious diseases.The GHR group conducts methodological research on the impacts of global environmental change on infectious disease risk and co-develops impact-based forecasting models in collaboration with public health, disaster risk management, and humanitarian agencies.Key Duties:Co-create decision support systems to enhance public health resilience to climate change.Conduct data audits of existing epidemiological, health system, and environmental information.Process, clean, and verify the integrity of data to be used for analysis.Perform Extraction, Transform and Load (ETL) processes.Harmonise multi-source, multi-scale datasets.Develop automated data pipelines for operational decision support tools.Conduct exploratory statistical analyses and create exploratory data analysis reports.Produce dashboards and design innovative ways to visualise data.Develop training materials for researchers, data managers, and stakeholders.Communicate research results at scientific conferences and in refereed journals.Support applications for competitive grants and projects.Support administrative duties of the group, including arranging meetings and maintaining Wiki/webpages.Engage with local stakeholders, data managers, and policymakers.Develop and maintain open-source data and modelling tools, e.G., R packages.Requirements:Education: BSc and MSc in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Meteorology, Environmental Sciences, Physics, Public Health Geography, Demography, Epidemiology, or equivalent.Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience:Experience in data management and statistical analyses.Strong programming skills in a suitable language (e.G., R, Python).Experience with version control systems (e.G., git).Experience using data visualisation packages and dashboard creation (e.G., Shiny, Tableau, Power BI).Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English