The Faculty of Science and the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM, HiLIFE) at the University of Helsinki jointly hire a research fellow (University Researcher), split 50:50 between the two units, for a fixed term of up to four years starting as soon as possible.
The role
- Develop an independent research programme on methodological innovation and the application of modern AI to large-scale biomedical data.
- Possible topics: foundation models for longitudinal health records and genomics, multimodal learning that joins health records with molecular data, causal representation learning, in-context learning for healthcare decisions, and AI-assisted scientific discovery.
- Work with the Ganna Lab at FIMM and the Probabilistic Machine Learning groups in Computer Science, which belong to ELLIS Institute Finland.
- Resources include Finnish national health records (over five billion healthcare events), FinnGen (over 500,000 participants), multi-omics data, and the CSC and LUMI supercomputers.
- Some teaching, about 5 to 10% of annual working time.
Requirements
- A doctoral degree and postdoctoral experience (typically 2 to 4 years) in AI, machine learning or computational statistics, with an interest in population health or human genetics.
- Ideally, evidence of independent research, ability to lead a group, funding experience and public engagement.
- A publication record at top AI and machine learning venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR or similar) and/or clear AI contributions in leading biomedical journals.
- The appointee is expected to live in Finland while employed; international staff are supported in relocating.
- Apply in English with a CV, a publication list and a 2 to 5 page document on qualifications and planned research. Letters of recommendation are not needed at this stage.
About the employer
The University of Helsinki is one of the world’s leading research universities, with over 30,000 students and 8,000 employees.
Salary and deadline
- Monthly salary EUR 4,800 to 6,000 depending on experience and qualifications; a six-month probationary period applies.
- Deadline: 16 November 2026, 23:59 Helsinki time. Apply through the University of Helsinki recruitment system (Apply now).
Source: Faculty of Science and FIMM (HiLIFE), University of Helsinki, “Research fellow (University Researcher) in AI for Population Health and Genomics”, read on 25 October 2026. Summary by AVIDE; see the original page for the full, current text.