Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Health Data Science and AI at King’s College London

Job description

We are seeking an innovative, enthusiastic and committed Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Health Data Science and AI, to grow the department’s capacity in the area and deliver high-quality research and teaching.

We expect the appointed person to show exceptional promise, to develop rapidly and to have the potential to be a national leader in Health Data Science and AI.

The post holder will take a leadership role and work closely with the new incoming Head of the School & Chair in Population and Digital Health Sciences, Professor Josip Car, to strengthen and lead a Health Data Science and AI programme in the School. The postholder will also be part of the Digital Health Group in the Department of Population Health Sciences.

The new appointee will develop insights, solutions, methods, and practice through application of Data Science and AI to health and medical sciences, leading methodological developments and collaborating with researchers across the School and King’s. Their research will embrace explainable AI, computational phenotyping, digital guidelines, generative AI, and large language models (LLM). The successful candidate will conduct high-quality, reproducible, and comprehensive analyses of large clinical and routine datasets (Clinical Practice Research Datalink, Hospital Episode Statistics, Lambeth DataNet), as well as individual data from wearables, mobile devices and social networks (e.g., related to development of novel digital biomarkers). Of particular interest are the applications of these technologies to the challenges of managing multimorbidities in aging populations and links between non-communicable diseases and mental health, both in UK and global settings.

The post holder will also contribute to the development and delivery of Health Data Science and AI education and training for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in medicine and population health. They will lead on the development of new, innovative, co-created, postgraduate courses in Health Data Science and AI, using the potential of London as a living laboratory.

The post holder will develop excellent networks across the School of Life Course & Population Sciences (SLCPS) and be a collegial collaborator, both in teaching and research. They will support early career researchers to develop teaching portfolios and participate in a variety of research teams. They will need to attract significant research income as PI or Co-I and deliver a growth agenda in one or more areas of Health Data Science and AI that supports research within SLCPS and the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine.

The Lecturer will receive excellent support for career development including time for technical, academic and professional development courses, personal mentoring and conference attendance.

Contract type

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

This is a full-time post – 100% full time equivalent.