Postdoctoral Post in Maths/Biology at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Marie Curie program to develop mathematical models for infectious diseases with the ultimate goal of informing vaccine development and public health.

Successful candidates should hold a PhD, demonstrate experience in mathematical, computational, statistical modeling or data analysis in population biology, and potential to develop one of the following lines of research:
1) Integration of within-host mechanisms (such as host immunity, parasite diversification and selection) into epidemiological models;
2) Integration of demographic and geographic information into epidemiological models

Deadline:  December 20, 2006
Start date:   April 1, 2007
www.igc.gulbenkian.pt/sites/ggomes

Contact:   Gabriela Gomes (ggomes@igc.gulbenkian.pt)