The Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health seeks a postdoctoral scientist for work on infectious disease modeling. The successful candidate will support multiple projects investigating infectious disease systems and developing model-inference frameworks for simulation of infectious agents, inference and analytics of critical epidemiological characteristics, counterfactual simulations, and projections and forecasting. The scientist will join a dynamic team of computational biologists, epidemiologists, and mathematicians studying a range of infectious diseases, including influenza, COVID-19, malaria, dengue and anti-microbial resistant organisms.

Expected duties include:

--Conducts research on infectious diseases, deriving novel mathematical and statistical frameworks and applying them to infectious disease systems and questions.
--Writes up and presents findings in public talks, scientific conferences, and peer-reviewed journals.
--Develops new research projects in collaboration with larger scientific team.
--Performs related duties & responsibilities as assigned/requested.

Minimum Qualifications:

--A Ph.D in Computational Biology, Mathematics, Statistics, Epidemiology or a related discipline.
--Experience programming in languages such as Matlab, R, or Python is required.
--An ability to work both collaboratively and independently, and strong oral and written communication skills are also needed.