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Role overview
TU Dublin is seeking to recruit a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science, or related areas to research, develop and evaluate an ontology to support a person-centred recommender system for patients and carers who are dealing with progressive chronic conditions. The design will employ a staged model for progression of different forms of dementia to classify and recommend learning resources in a person-centred way. To evaluate the design, Informational/educational materials will be classified using an ontology of dementia condition stages (e.g. a knowledge graph) alongside a knowledge model of patient/carer context, in order to facilitate personalised progressive disclosure to patients and their carers, of information that is relevant to the patient’s condition stage.
The work on this Research Programme is carried out by a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and is quasi-autonomous research activity. The mentoring Principal Investigator (PI) will advise the appointee on the conduct of their research which itself will be part of a research programme that the PI is responsible for. The intention is that during the employment of the appointee, they will avail of learning opportunities provided by TU Dublin and/or external agencies related to their particular research programme or research practice in general. At the completion of the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship period, the appointee will be expected to leave the University and continue their academic formation and development in a different research environment. At the completion of the mentored training period, the appointee should be in a position to take up employment as a fully autonomous researcher with another employer.
The TU Dublin vacancy ID for this position is: 034623 034623
Closing Date The closing date for applications is 5pm (Irish Time) on 13th September 2024. Late applications will not be accepted. It is anticipated that interviews for this post will take place in week beginning 21 st of October 2024. The interview assessment will be 40 minutes in length and will include a presentation of 10 minutes duration. The topic of this presentation will be as follows: How I would use standard information model formats to represent disease progression for patients with dementia
Contact information For further information about this post please contact: Damon Berry, [email protected] For guidance on completing your application please follow steps 1-10 as outlined in the Guidance on completing the Application Form section on the TU Dublin job advert. This job advert can be found via www.tudublin.ie/vacancies, searching for job ID 034623 and downloading the Final Candidate Brief document.
For queries regarding the application process, please contact Rosemary Okafor at (01) 220 5175 between 9.30 and 5.00pm, Monday to Friday or email [email protected]
