The Research Fellow, funded through an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, will develop novel mathematical and computational models of infectious diseases such as COVID-19, malaria and influenza that link immunological and epidemiological scales of infection and transmission.

The appointee will hold a joint position across the School of Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science) and the School of Computing and Information Systems (Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology). They will work closely with the investigator team and associated research higher degree student(s) to develop new approaches, both mathematical and computational, to couple within-host dynamics of infection to epidemiological transmission. They will take a leadership role in the development, implementation, analysis, and numerical simulation of these models.

The project sits at the interface between mathematical biology and computational modelling and simulation and will provide the appointee with the opportunity to work with leading researchers across both disciplines from the University of Melbourne and LaTrobe University.

The appointee will have completed or be in the process of completing a PhD in applied mathematics, computer science, or a related discipline. Ideally, they will have prior knowledge of infectious disease dynamics at either the within-host or epidemiological scale. They will have a developing research profile, with a demonstrated ability to publish scientific findings in the peer-reviewed literature.