Responsibilities

• Support the ECDC modelling team in the design, development and application of mathematical models to address public health questions
• Managing service contracts with external contractors in liaison with procurement and finance sections at ECDC
• Critically reviewing relevant and current literature and assess the value for the Modelling Team’s work
• Maintain, apply, and develop mathematical modelling code for ECDC relevant projects
• Contribute to establishing and sustaining mathematical modelling networks within Member States’ public health institutes and academic institutions
• Building modelling capacity for the use in public health within ECDC and beyond

Qualifications

• Education at university level within a scientific field relevant to ECDC’s remit (e.g. infectious diseases epidemiology, biomedical sciences, mathematics, applied mathematics, mathematical modelling or related), and first experience acquired in positions relevant to the job description
• Either good R statistical language skills or other experience in using coding language to solve modelling problems
• Very good MS office skills
• Good organisational and time management skills, including communication, documentation and reporting
• Very good English language communication skills (spoken and written)
• Good scientific writing skills Experience in collecting (e.g., from peer-reviewed or preprint articles), summarising, critically evaluating and presenting scientific information
• Willingness and capacity to work in a small team with multi-cultural and multi-professional background