Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Data Science Lab

Dr. Miguel Ángel Armengol de la Hoz specializes in the promotion, integration, management and exploitation of clinical databases from the electronic medical record through the implementation of a distributed open collaboration philosophy. He is responsible for the Data Science Lab at Fundación Progreso y Salud (FPS) of the Andalusian Ministry of Health. With a background in Telecommunications Engineering, he currently holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. He has done research during his doctoral stage in prestigious institutions such as MIT, where he worked as a data scientist of intensive care patients in the Laboratory for Computational Physiology, where he remains affiliated researcher. He has worked on multiple research initiatives with "omics" medical data and has organized data collaboration events in Asia, South America, North America and Europe. He has authored numerous articles on AI, open data, and data science applied to medical practice. With a markedly multidisciplinary profile, he has been involved in more than 50 healthcare technology projects, always in collaboration with clinicians, and has published more than twenty scientific articles in high impact journals. He has lectured internationally at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and nationally at institutions such as Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Carlos III, and IAVANTE (Andalusian Health Service). In addition, he has collaborated as speaker, mentor, and/or jury member in events related to clinical data at Yale University, New York University, and the Karolinska Institutet. More information about the research group here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=N5pwSp8AAAAJ&hl=es.

The Data Science Lab serves as a facilitator for the secondary use of data from the Andalusian Public Health System to support research, development, and innovation (R&D&I). It promotes collaborative data analysis and the application of artificial intelligence to improve clinical practice and healthcare management. Its core areas of work include the generation of knowledge through AI and Big Data in R&D&I projects, addressing clinical questions and building data repositories that foster open science. The lab also evaluates AI-based healthcare solutions by validating algorithms. Finally, it specializes in the development of clinical decision support systems, designing and validating tools in multidisciplinary teams composed of data engineers, healthcare professionals, managers, and subject-matter experts, tailored to unmet needs within the health system.

The ideal candidate should have a degree in computer engineering, telecommunications, mathematics, statistics, data science, bioinformatics, physics, psychology, or relevant experience in data science. They should also have at least one scientific publication or accessible code repository related to data exploration and analysis, machine learning model training and validation, data engineering and ETL, and experience working with Python, R, and SQL. The MSCA researcher will focus on pulmonology, COVID-19, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, public health, vaccine efficacy, gastroenterology, pharmacology, anesthesiology, cardiology, mental health, radiology. Additionally, the candidate should possess strong communication skills, be a team player, have excellent organizational skills, and be willing to travel occasionally.

APPLICATION DETAILS

• How to apply: Send a letter of interest together with your CV and email addresses of 3 referees.

• Application e-mail: mangel.armengol@juntadeandalucia.es.

• Deadline for sending CVs: 30/06/2025

At the deadline for the submission of proposals (10 September, 2025), researchers:

• shall be in possession of a doctoral degree.

• must have a maximum of eight years of experience in research, from the date of the award of their PhD degree, years of experience outside research and career breaks will not count towards the above maximum, nor will years of experience in research in third countries, for nationals or long-term residents of EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries who wish to reintegrate to Europe (click for more information).

• must not have resided or carried out their main activities in the country of Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the abovementioned deadline.