Undergraduate or graduate students
Students who are considering Bachelor's or Master's thesis projects are welcome to contact Dr. Xin Lai and share their areas of interest. We offer several topics, including data analysis, mathematical modeling, and machine learning. All require programming skills, such as R, Python, and MATLAB. If you are a medical student, we could offer a topic on meta-analysis, which does not require programming skills.
Ph.D. students
For students aspiring to pursue Ph.D., we kindly request that you include your résumé, academic transcripts, an accepted English proficiency test (such as TOFEL and IELTS), and a letter of intent when sending your email to Dr. Xin Lai. Additionally, attaching an one-page research proposal and articulating why you've chosen our lab can significantly enhance your application. Our faculty has a regular call (in February) for doctoral researchers that can support your PhD study up to 4 years.
Postdocs
Postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to apply for open positions at the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study (Tampere IAS). This is an regular call that recruits postdocs and senior researchers in February-March every year. We also offer university-level support (i.e., a master class with 5 training courses) to help you prepare and apply for the prestigious MSAC Postdoctoral Fellowship (application period: May-September each year). If your research objectives align with our laboratory's focus, we are more than willing to provide support for your application, particularly if you are seeking external funding opportunities. Specifically, we expect the applicant to have
strong coding skills: (R | Python | MATLAB);
strong computational and quantitative background (e.g., statistics, computer science, mathematics, physics, bioinformatics, and computational biology) or substantial experience in healthy or molecular data science (e.g., omics data analysis, bioinformatics applications, etc.);
first-author publication(s) in your own field, with accepted or published status in journals or conference proceedings;
strong oral and written communication skills in English.
Interested applicants should contact Dr. Xin Lai via email with the title 'Postdoc Application', and it will be appreciated if you could provide your résumé including 2-3 references.