PhD Candidate: Data-Driven Enterovirus Surveillance & Modeling

DTU — Technical University of Denmark; Hillerød; On-site; DKK 420,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

DTU – Technical University of Denmark invites applications for a Doctoral Candidate position within the EU-funded DETECTIVE training programme. You will work on Work Package 2 at Nordsjællands Hospital, Region Hovedstaden, focusing on surveillance of enterovirus infections and population-level transmission dynamics.

Start date is 1st March 2027 with a 36-month contract, and the programme includes international secondments and multidisciplinary training.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in biomedical sciences, medicine, epidemiology, public health sciences or related fields, obtained within 4 years of deadline.
• Experience with large epidemiological data and infectious diseases is beneficial.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Interest in multidisciplinary research and working in a team.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate multicenter surveillance implementation of standardized case identification protocols for enterovirus infections.
• Conduct seroprevalence studies on biobank samples.
• Collect and analyze structured results from other DETECTIVE DCs.
• Build data-driven models of population susceptibility, infection and transmission dynamics.

Skills

Good English communication

Data analysis

Epidemiology knowledge

Biomedical background

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Master's degree in biomedical sciences / related field

Tools

Epidemiological data analysis

Molecular diagnostics

Biobank data handling

Job description

DTU – Technical University of Denmark invites applications for a Doctoral Candidate position within the EU-funded DETECTIVE training programme. You will work on Work Package 2 at Nordsjællands Hospital, Region Hovedstaden, focusing on surveillance of enterovirus infections and population-level transmission dynamics.

Start date is 1st March 2027 with a 36-month contract, and the programme includes international secondments and multidisciplinary training.