Postdoctoral researcher in Foundation Health Models

The Department of Computing at the Faculty of Technology invites applications for a full‑time Postdoctoral Researcher position. This role focuses on leading the development of pretraining pipelines and clinical alignment techniques for clinical foundation models. The fixed‑term position is 24 months, starting at a mutually agreed date.

Position is part of the high‑impact research project FINe‑Health Foundry: Nationwide Foundation Health Model . The researcher will lead key research lines, co‑supervise students, and manage deliverables with partners at the ELLIS Institute Finland.

Research Pillars

• Pretraining Foundation Health Model: Design and scale pretraining pipelines on nationwide health databases and structured longitudinal EHR.
• Medical Reasoning and Grounding: Develop advanced post‑training and alignment techniques (RLHF, DPO, GRPO) to ensure founda...