Postdoctoral Scholar: Pediatric Infectious Disease Modeling

UT Health Sciences; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 52,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

UT Health Sciences in Memphis, TN, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar to develop and analyze mathematical models of immune response to infections. The Smith lab combines dry and wet lab work to generate datasets for model validation and hypothesis testing.

Responsibilities include building infection models, parameter estimation from experimental data, experimental design support, data interpretation, and manuscript preparation for journals and grant proposals.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in a relevant discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, etc.).
• Prior experience in modeling viral infections, bacterial infections, and/or immune response dynamics.
• Experience with parameter estimation techniques and data-driven modeling.

Responsibilities

• Develops and analyzes dynamical infection models.
• Utilizes parameter estimation to investigate experimental and clinical data.
• Helps design new experiments.
• Conducts mechanistic and computational modeling of within-host infectious disease dynamics in support of R01.
• Generates new hypotheses about respiratory infection biology.
• Presents findings at lab meetings, seminars, and conferences.
• Maintains accurate records and ensures reproducibility of results.
• Prepares manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals and contributes to grant proposals.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Python

Matlab

Communication

Education

Ph.D. in relevant discipline

Tools

Python

Matlab

Job description

UT Health Sciences in Memphis, TN, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar to develop and analyze mathematical models of immune response to infections. The Smith lab combines dry and wet lab work to generate datasets for model validation and hypothesis testing.

Responsibilities include building infection models, parameter estimation from experimental data, experimental design support, data interpretation, and manuscript preparation for journals and grant proposals.