Postdoctoral Fellow: Quantitative Systems Science

Mount Sinai; United States; On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow to advance NIH-funded ASPIRE research on adolescent cardiovascular health and later maternal outcomes. You will build long-term agent-based models, work with a multidisciplinary team, and contribute to policy-relevant population health insights.

Collaborators include epidemiologists, qualitative researchers, community partners, and school health colleagues; opportunities exist for

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in a quantitative field (Systems Science, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or related).
• Experience developing agent-based, microsimulation, or system dynamics models.
• Strong programming skills in NetLogo and/or R or Python.
• Excellent quantitative, analytic, scientific writing skills.
• Ability to work independently within a multidisciplinary team.
• Interest in adolescent health, health equity, and policy-relevant population health research.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement agent-based models of health trajectories using NetLogo or similar platforms.
• Translate longitudinal analyses and qualitative results into model structure and policy scenarios.
• Simulate interventions to estimate effects of school policies on adolescent and maternal health.
• Calibrate, verify, validate, and perform uncertainty analyses.
• Document model assumptions and implementation using reporting frameworks like ODD and TRACE and ISPOR/SMDM guidance.
• Develop reproducible workflows and maintain version-controlled code.
• Contribute to manuscripts, abstracts, presentations, and policy-facing products.
• Participate in meetings with investigators, advisors, adolescents, school stakeholders, and community partners.

Skills

Agent-based models

Programming in NetLogo/R/Python

Scientific communication

Independent work in multidisciplinary팀

Education

PhD in Systems Science or related field

Tools

NetLogo

R

Python

Job description

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow to advance NIH-funded ASPIRE research on adolescent cardiovascular health and later maternal outcomes. You will build long-term agent-based models, work with a multidisciplinary team, and contribute to policy-relevant population health insights.

Collaborators include epidemiologists, qualitative researchers, community partners, and school health colleagues; opportunities exist for