Postdoctoral Fellow: Genomic Surveillance & Pathogen Evolution

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 72,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to join the Wohl Lab at Harvard Medical School.

The role focuses on developing and evaluating sampling strategies for pathogen genomic surveillance and collaborating with international stakeholders to analyze genomic data. Applicants should have a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology, computational biology, or related fields, with experience in transmission modeling, pathogen genomics, and bioinformatics.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology, computational biology, applied statistics or mathematics, or similar.
• Pending doctoral degrees will also be considered.
• Experience in transmission dynamics modeling of infectious diseases, pathogen genomics, bioinformatics, and/or applied statistics

Responsibilities

• Developing a simulation framework for pathogen transmission and applying this framework to evaluate information gained under different genomic sampling scenarios
• Engaging with international stakeholders to identify priority public health pathogens and evaluate plausible genomic surveillance strategies
• Leveraging AI tools to build pathogen genomic datasets from publicly available data and metadata
• Guiding the development of accessible tools for genomic surveillance program design
• Performing and/or supporting pathogen genomic analyses conducted in public health settings

Skills

Python

R

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

PhD in infectious disease epidemiology, computational biology, applied statistics or mathematics

Pending doctoral degrees will also be considered

Job description

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to join the Wohl Lab at Harvard Medical School.

The role focuses on developing and evaluating sampling strategies for pathogen genomic surveillance and collaborating with international stakeholders to analyze genomic data. Applicants should have a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology, computational biology, or related fields, with experience in transmission modeling, pathogen genomics, and bioinformatics.