Neuroanatomy data scientist (UCL Students Only)

Reference
1108692

Branch
UCL

Start date
30/03/2026

Duration
6 Months

Hours and days
Part-time; 5 - 20 hours per week

Dress code
Not Applicable

Rate of pay
£19.14

Holiday rate
£3.58

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Neuroanatomy data scientist. This role is suitable for UCL Students only. This role is for March 30th start date and has a projected end date of September 30th 2026. This is a part time role at 5 - 20 hours per week. Payment is set at £19.14 per hour + £3.58 holiday pay. This role will be UCL hybrid working with part from the office and part from home.

The Neuroinformatics Unit (NIU)is a research software engineering team, building easy to use, open source tools for neuroscience and machine learning. The NIU also lead the development of the BrainGlobe Initiative. BrainGlobe exists to build software for computational neuroanatomy, helping thousands of researchers around the world process, analyse, visualise and understand anatomy data from 13 different species.

https://neuroinformatics.dev/

https://brainglobe.info/

Duties and responsibilities

The core of BrainGlobe is the BrainGlobe Atlas API, a standardised interface to ~200 digital anatomical reference atlases. Each atlas is packaged in a standard form using reproducible Python scripts. The main aim of this role is to add more atlases to BrainGlobe, with the eventual aim of packaging every freely available 3D digital brain atlas that exists. Specific duties include:

• Researching existing atlases to determine suitability for inclusion within BrainGlobe (permissive license, data availability etc.)
• Communicating with the BrainGlobe team to determine priorities for atlas inclusion
• Communicating with atlas developers to find missing information
• Writing high-quality Python scripts to convert publicly accessible atlas data into the standard BrainGlobe format
• Submitting scripts and packaged atlases for review by BrainGlobe developers
• Proactively identifying ways to improve processes for packaging atlases, and other parts of BrainGlobe
• Attending regular (2-4 per month) meetings.

Skills and experience

• Graduate or current student of an undergraduate degree in neuroscience, computer science, physics, mathematics, biology or a related field
• Knowledge of, or an interest in neuroscience or anatomy research
• Significant knowledge of the Python programming language
• Experience working with scientific data
• Attention to detail
• Ability to rapidly acquire a working knowledge of new programming languages, frameworks and libraries
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and effectively
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and activities, working to deadlines and prioritising as appropriate.

Location
UCL; hybrid working, part from the office and part from home

Additional information

This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Tuesday February 24th. Interviews will be held shortly after in person at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).

*If you have a full-time contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.

Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received so pleased don't delay applying.

Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.

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