SciLifeLab Group Leaders
SciLifeLab Group Leaders are key members of our national organisation, driving advancements in life science through collaborative research, infrastructure development, and data innovation. This page provides resources and opportunities for our community of leaders, dedicated to promoting excellence and impact both nationally and internationally.
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Definition
Opportunities & benefits
Responsibilities
Governance
Contact
Definition
A SciLifeLab Group Leader is defined as a community member who plays a key role in SciLifeLab’s development, locally and/or nationally. This role is based on strong contributions to the objectives of the national SciLifeLab organization.
For more information, please see the SciLifeLab Group Leader Principles & Guidelines document.
Opportunities & benefits
When formally designated a SciLifeLab Group Leader (and research group), the Group Leader is able to take part of a number of opportunities within the SciLifeLab ecosystem, a number of which are presented below.
Personal invitations to e.g. site events and capability meetings. Additionally, Group leaders are invited to activities and initiatives designed to engage, inform and connect with audiences outside of SciLifeLab (e.g. public engagement and collaborations with policymakers and industry).
All Group Leaders are presented on the website with an individual profile page (which the Group Leader should keep updated) and research and technology development highlights from Group Leaders are continuously highlighted in SciLifeLab’s newsletter and social media channels.
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Such as Group Leader Retreats and SciLifeLab’s calls for Proof of Concept, PULSE postdocs, EMBL collaborations and event support.
Group Leaders are added to a specific Group Leader list, where all information considered to be of significant importance to them, is distributed. Furthermore, Group Leaders are encouraged to sign up to other relevant community lists, e.g. site specific lists and General (accessible through your Google account).
Slack is an online lightweight communication tool. The SciLifeLab Slack workspace is https://scilifelab.slack.com – anyone with an email address that ends in scilifelab.se, scilifelab.uu.se, bils.se or nbis.se can immediately register themselves here.
Anyone else: request an invite by emailing datacentre@scilifelab.se.
As a SciLifeLab Group Leader, you have the opportunity to reach top-tier candidates by advertising your open positions through SciLifeLab Careers. Simply include “SciLifeLab” in your job posting, and it will automatically be featured on our career page and in our newsletter—maximizing visibility among talented researchers.
Responsibilities
Group Leaders are expected to:
Group Leaders are responsible for keeping their profile page updated with correct and relevant information. In addition to being one of the main ways of display for SciLifeLab, we use this information to e.g. establish external collaborations.
Furthermore, Group Leaders are expected to make sure contact information for them and their group is correct, and submit changes to
nominations@scilifelab.se.
As a Group Leader, you’ll play a key role in shaping the broader community at SciLifeLab. We expect you to actively participate in events and embody the role of a leader and role model. This includes contributing to our open data policy, championing fair data principles, upholding our code of conduct, and serving as a dedicated supervisor for your research group. Beyond your team, your expertise will further enrich SciLifeLab’s mission, fostering collaboration and innovation across the centre.
Subscribe to the SciLifeLab open data policy, ensuring all research data, results, protocols, code, and biomaterials are as openly available as possible and apply FAIR principles.
Commit and adhere to SciLifeLab’s Code of Conduct and comply with good ethical, scientific, and infrastructure practices.
Use the SciLifeLab affiliation and ORCID in publications, and present their SciLifeLab Group Leader status in relevant forums (e.g. scientific presentations). When listing affiliation for publications, please adhere to one of the following:
- DEPARTMENT, Science for Life Laboratory, UNIVERSITY
- Science for Life Laboratory, DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY
We encourage you to engage actively in discussions with management on how to strengthen connections between group leaders and platforms for technology development and capabilities. Additionally, you are expected to adhere to the relevant reporting structures, such as those required when receiving funding through a SciLifeLab call (specific instructions for each call) or for group leaders based within the infrastructure.
Governance
Nominations for the SciLifeLab Group Leader status are for a four-year term, after which re-evaluation occurs every four years to ensure the criteria are still met. Nominations can be submitted by the candidate (self-nomination) or following an invitation by a SciLifeLab founding university or site committee member. The (current) positions as SciLifeLab or DDLS Fellow, Platform Director, Platform Co-Director, or Head of Unit automatically grants Group Leader status.
Initial selection is managed by SciLifeLab committees at the sites and founding universities. The SciLifeLab Management Group then makes a recommendation to the SciLifeLab Board, which takes the final decision. Approved nominations are publicly announced on the SciLifeLab website.
The annual call for SciLifeLab Group Leader applications closed on November 6, 2024. Next call will open autumn 2025.
Contact
Please feel free to get in touch with nomination@scilifelab.se