Research Assistant

Imperial College London - Department of Brain Sciences

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated Research Assistant for a project focused on access, harmonisation, and integration of complex biomedical datasets in Parkinson’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders. The role centres on enabling high-quality, reproducible analysis across prescription data, longitudinal clinical records, wearable time-series data, and multi-omics datasets, with particular emphasis on preparing analysis-ready datasets that support downstream statistical and machine learning workflows.

What you would be doing

You will contribute to data access workflows, database and pipeline development, and cross-modal harmonisation of large-scale datasets from international cohorts and biobanks, including PPMI, UK Biobank, and All of Us, with a focus on designing scalable and reproducible data pipelines.

You will work with electronic health records, cohort data, and large-scale research datasets to develop pipelines for secure data access, data cleaning, longitudinal harmonisation, and quality control, ensuring that datasets are structured to support downstream clinical, statistical, and machine learning analyses.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a creative and enthusiastic researcher who can take on a challenging role with considerable scope for independent contribution and personal growth. You will play a central role in advancing clinical data infrastructure, data harmonisation, and integrative data science research, particularly at the interface between data engineering and downstream analytical workflows.

You should be a highly motivated researcher interested in developing and applying computational approaches to access, clean, harmonise, and integrate complex biomedical datasets, including prescription records, longitudinal clinical data, wearable time-series data, and multi-omics data, in the context of Parkinson’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders. You will collaborate closely with research groups across the UK Dementia Research Institute and Imperial’s Department of Brain Sciences and will be supported in their scientific and career development.

What we can offer you

This post will be based in the Department of Brain Sciences and part of the UK Dementia Research Institute at Imperial College London, working closely with a multidisciplinary research team. Postdocs enjoy excellent career development opportunities with:

• Access to a range of cutting-edge technologies.
• Training in large-scale data integration, clinical research infrastructure, and applied computational methods, with opportunities to contribute to publications and future PhD fellowship applications.
• The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution and be part of our mission to continue science for humanity.
• Strong national links through the UK DRI with attendance at its annual scientific meeting ‘Connectome’.

Further information

This is a full-time post offered as a fixed-term contract until 31 March 2028. We are proud of our collaborative, interdisciplinary environment, within the UK Dementia Research Institute and Department of Brain Sciences.

If you require any further details about the role, please contact: Dr Cynthia Sandor c.sandor@imperial.ac.uk