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ALT Postdoctoral project on infectious disease modelling & behavioural science Location: Bilthoven Contract duration: For the duration of 36 months Hours a week: 32 - 36 Monthly salary: €3,091 - €4,921 Salary level: Scale 10 Level: Promoted Field of expertise: Research / science Responding for: April 1st Vacancy number: #1325 Posting date: 06 March 2024 Employment: Fixed-term employment contract
ALT Job description The position is part of the project BEHAVING, a collaboration of behavioural scientists, infectious disease modellers & epidemiologists from different RIVM departments, with two PhD candidates & the advertised postdoctoral researcher The postdoctoral researcher in this project will: - use data & results from the chlamydia questionnaires to build individual-based models for the transmission of chlamydia & gonnorhea - use data & results from questionnaires about measles-mumps-rubella vaccine uptake to inform an individual-based network model of schools & households for the transmission of measles - analyse both sets of models to study how use of behavioural data affects transmission dynamics in the models & analyse the chlamydia model to study the effects of interventions - work in a multidisciplinary project with behavioural scientists, epidemiologists, statisticians & mathematical modellers - publish results in peer-reviewed journals & present at conferences
ALT Job requirements We are looking for someone with: - a recently completed PhD in computational modelling or a related field, preferably in the area of population biology or infectious disease epidemiology. - a proven strong interest in infectious diseases, behavioural science, and multidisciplinary research. experience in statistics and handling large datasets, and with advanced programming skills, preferably in R. - communication skills, needed to work in a multidisciplinary project, with behavioural scientists, infectious disease epidemiologists, statisticians and mathematicians. - enthusiasm about working in public health and infectious diseases, with relevance to society. - excellent communication skills in English, both in speaking and writing
ALT Terms of employment Salary level: Scale 10 Monthly salary: Min €3,091 – Max. €4,921 (gross) Employment: Fixed-term employment contract Contract duration: For the duration of 36 months Minimum number of hours per week: 32 Maximum number of hours per week: 36
