Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research fellow position to work as part of the NIHR-funded Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Genomics and Enabling Data at the University of Warwick. The HPRU is a collaboration between the University of Warwick, Public Health England, the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance and the University of Cambridge. The mission of the HPRU is to provide the methodological backbone required to improve UK public health using new rich data sources. In particular, recent and ongoing developments in whole-genome sequencing technologies have a widely acknowledged great potential to improve public health, but this potential is currently incompletely realised due to a lack of sound and scalable methodology to interpret the data in the correct epidemiological context.

Working in close collaboration with other members of the HPRU, the postholder will develop new analytical methods that exploit large scale genomic, metagenomic and epidemiological data available on infectious diseases, in order to learn about the ways pathogens evolve, spread and cause diseases. These new methods will be based on a range of mathematical modelling and statistical approaches. A range of probabilistic infectious disease models with Bayesian (or other) inference will be used to generate a clear understanding of the implications of genomic data for the public health system. Particular attention will be given to the practicality of the methods to application in real-time situations, including the feasibility to respond to public health emergencies.

The postholder will become a member of the HPRU, the Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (SBIDER), the Mathematics Institute and the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick.

Applications via the HR website should include a CV and list of publications, research statement and links to a small selection of reprints/preprints or part of your PhD thesis as appropriate. All applicants should also ensure that their three referees send their references by email to Alison Glendinning, Departmental Secretary, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick at MathematicsPA@warwick.ac.uk by the closing date.