Job Description

The Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) of the University of Minnesota is seeking applicants for a tenurable Professor faculty position to lead in the design, development and dissemination of cutting-edge bioinformatics software tools. This person will work in a multi-disciplinary, highly collaborative research environment providing bioinformatics analysis support for a number of translational research projects.  The position will also have responsibility for leadership of the Translational Bioinformatics Services group in the Health Informatics Program (HIP) of the Universityâ™s Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI).  

The faculty member will:

1. Continue and expand their already established genome-related research program.
2. Lead the Bioinformatics Group of the Clinical and Translational Sciences Instituteâ™s (CTSI) Health Informatics Program to provide consulting services.
3. Assume leadership of bioinformatics components of multiple collaborative research projects focused on translational genomics.
4. Establish and administer a laboratory for the design, development and dissemination of cutting-edge bioinformatics software tools. 
5. Participate in the teaching and mentoring activities of the Institute for Health Informatics and the CTSI. 
6. Serve as a mentor to trainees in the CTSIâ™s T32 Training Program.
7. Participate in University and IHI service activities including faculty governance and committees.

Required Qualifications:  

• A doctorate in Health Informatics, Biomedical Informatics or a related computational science.  
• Evidence of significant, ongoing bioinformatics research productivity in the form of peer-reviewed publications.
• Documented experience in managing large scale research efforts in bioinformatics.

Desired Qualifications:

• Documented experience in leading large bioinformatics groups as a component of complex genomics-related projects.
• Documented evidence of the development of novel bioinformatics software tools that have enjoyed widespread dissemination.
• Evidence of an established and productive genomics-related research program. 

About University of Minnesota Twin Cities

The University of Minnesota, founded in the belief that all people are enriched by understanding, is dedicated to the advancement of learning and the search for truth; to the sharing of this knowledge through education for a diverse community; and to the application of this knowledge to benefit the people of the state, the nation, and the world.

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