The role will be to develop our internal software applications - Disease Wiki and Disease Parameters Database. Working with HPRU project partners at Imperial College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine you will help leverage synergies between our independent initiatives to produce easily accessible and centralised databases of epidemiological and modelling parameter estimates for multiple infectious pathogens with epidemic potential. As the project develops we expect the focus to shift from model parameters to high performance model frameworks (examples would be PyGOM, ODIN or JUNE) and how they may 1. be made more accessible 2. could take advantage of modern GPU technologies 3. what is required to be able to pass model specification between systems and institutions.

Working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team (epidemiologists, mathematical modellers, data scientists, and public health experts) and with external collaborators, you will be a team player with excellent mathematical background, have a good understanding of modern programming techniques including API development and software packaging. You should also have excellent report writing skills and an awareness of modelling infectious disease processes. Your role will be to explore and define best practice knowledge transfer between institutions including parameter synthesis, data interchange, and development of guidelines and/or a DSL for epidemiological model reporting.