Job summary
Fixed Term for 24 Months
Applications are invited from a talented individual with strong quantitative skills to join Dr. Oliver Ratmann’s research group in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London as a Research Associate in Statistics and Pathogen Phylodynamics, and in strong collaboration with Dr. Joshua Herbeck (University of Washington, USA) and further international academic and public health partners.

Duties and responsibilities
The post holder will work as part of an international team to address key questions in HIV prevention from an objective marker, viral sequences, through state of the art statistical approaches that build on branching process theory, structured coalescent, and Bayesian hierarchical models (in short pathogen phylodynamics). The project brings together a multi-disciplinary team of public health communities (Public Health–Seattle and King County), and academic partners (Imperial College London, University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Children’s Research Institute). Outcomes will have direct impact to prevention and intervention programs in Seattle, North America and Europe, as well as the UNAIDS cities initiative to fast-track elimination of HIV transmission.

Essential requirements
This post is an exciting opportunity to expand on significant recent methodological advances in pathogen phylodynamics, to build collaborations within an international, multi-disciplinary and world-leading team, and to shape a cutting-edge research project between core methodology and public health partners. The position is initially funded through the U.S. National Institutes of Health for a duration of two years. Potential further funding through a strongly connected research project with the HIV Transmission Elimination Initiative and partners in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a possibility (http://hteam.nl).