Postdoctoral position in statistical modelling of vaccine trials for pandemic preparedness, Oxford, UK

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We are recruiting for a postdoctoral position in statistical modelling of vaccine trials as part of our recently begun ‘PRESTO’ project. We = the research group of Christophe Fraser, based at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, UK. The project’s aim is to accelerate vaccine trials in future pandemics by developing in advance a modelling platform to explore which of the many different kinds of trials will best estimate how well vaccines work in different contexts, depending notably on the epidemiology of the disease but also on logistics, diagnostics, populations, other interventions in place etc. The project’s motivation is that accelerating vaccine trials will accelerate vaccination, which can save many lives given the usually exponential dynamics of new infectious diseases (e.g. with a doubling once every ~3 days like at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, every day counts).

More details & how to apply here.
We are also recruiting a second postdoc, focussed more on mathematical modelling than statistical modelling, here.
Application deadline October 16th at 12:00 British Summer Time.

(As mentioned in my talk at StanCon.)
(The statistical modelling for this project is not prescribed to be in Stan, but half of this team uses Stan.)

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Thanks for posting here, @ChrisWymant—this looks really interesting and important.

Aside from this group, there are also other groups at Oxford working on Bayesian epidemiology (@flaxter and @Elizaveta_Semenova are also there, among others), so it’s a great place to be for this kind of thing.