You will contribute to an international collaborative project entitled “Multi-scale infection dynamics from cells to landscapes: FMD in African buffalo”, working with Prof Roman Biek. This innovative NSF/BBSRC-funded project uses foot-and-mouth-disease virus (FMDV) in African buffalo as a model to understand how phenotypic variation within virus species can explain the spread, persistence, and co-existence of viral variants. Your role will be to process virus sequence data and to contribute phylodynamic analyses and models to test how variation among variants scales up to structure viral diversity at the landscape scale, working closely with collaborators at the U Warwick (mathematical modelling) and Pirbright (virology) in the UK as well as collaborators in the USA and South Africa. The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the formulation and submission of research publications and research proposals as well as help manage and direct this complex and challenging project.