CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Eco-Epidemiological Modelling

• Do you have a PhD in applied mathematics, machine learning, computer science, data science, or similar?
• Contribute to the CSIRO-James Cook University research programme on emerging infectious disease by improving understanding and prediction of disease spillover
• Join CSIRO – Australia’s leading scientific research organisation!

CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.

The successful candidate will be focused on developing generative Markov state models to understand and predict zoonotic spillover, taking into account environmental data. Additionally, to develop stochastic transmission models for specific pathogen case studies as diseases of interest arise. To ensure policy-relevance, model development will occur within an interdisciplinary environment, including virologists, ecologists, bioinformaticians, and veterinarians, amongst others as appropriate.