A 5-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position on a NERC-funded large-grant on the epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis in wild badgers.

We wish to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to participate in a 5-year, large-grant project on the epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis in wild badgers, using state-of-the-art Bayesian modelling approaches to study the drivers of infectiousness and transmission of infection in an intensively monitored wildlife disease system, with real-world applications for UK agriculture and conservation science. The successful applicant will develop cutting-edge inference algorithms to design, use and share the findings of epidemiological models that integrate across large and diverse datasets including capture-mark-recapture for demography and social network structure; genome re-sequencing for pedigree information and genomic prediction; diagnostic testing for infection status and prevalence of bTB. The Research Fellow will join a team of five postdoctoral researchers, research faculty from Universities of Exeter, Sheffield and Edinburgh, and project partners from the Animal and Plant Health Agency, DEFRA and the Office for Environmental Protection.

Type
Postdoc
Institution
University of Exeter
City
Exeter
Country
UK
Closing date
August 24th, 2025
Posted on
July 26th, 2025 13:09
Last updated
July 26th, 2025 13:09
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