Postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology/medical statistics, Infection Medicine - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Research group
The project is coordinated by Malin Inghammar, associate professor (docent), Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, in close collaboration with the research group EPI@LUND, led by Professor Jonas Björk. Within EPI@LUND, PhD students and senior researchers address different research questions associated with major societal issues by combining modern epidemiological methodology with detailed population data at the individual level. Research on applied causal inference is also a theme. The research is conducted in collaboration with other departments and faculties, and together with several universities, regions, and municipalities, a new Research Collaboration Initiative on Covid-19 vaccine uptake, effect and safety and improvement of pandemic preparedness has recently been established with substantial external funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR) and Sweden’s Innovation Agency (Vinnova), among others.

Work duties
An employment as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited merit employment that should give the employee an early opportunity to develop their independence as a researcher and create conditions for further merit.

This is a project on epidemiological methods / applied medical statistics in the field of infectious diseases. The overall aims of the project are to investigate socioeconomic and demographic gradients in the risk of severe infectious diseases, with a focus on sepsis and covid-19, to study direct and indirect effects and long-term complications of infectious diseases, and to study how observational data and registry data can be used to estimate causal effects more generally.
The project will consist of both methodological parts that aim to develop new statistical and epidemiological approaches and applied parts that aim to study socioeconomic risk factors, long-term effects, and mediating factors through statistical analyses of individual-level data from quality registries, population- and health registries.

Daily work tasks will include study design and operationalization of research ideas, data extraction, management of large amounts of data, application of state-of-the art epidemiological methods and statistical analyses, interpretation of results, and scientific writing. Much emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary discussions about the significance of the results with colleagues both within and outside the research group, as well as with stakeholders. You will also get the opportunityto present your scientific results at seminars and conferences, both nationally and internationally.

You will be involved in further development of the research environment in various ways, for example of by contributing to the organization of seminars, workshops, mini-conferences and reach out activities to stakeholders. You may also get involved in some teaching activities, as well other duties within the research group.

Qualification and requirements 
Appointment to a post-doctoral position requires that the applicant has a PhD, or an international degree deemed equivalent to a PhD, within the subject of the position, completed no more than three years before the last date for applications. Under special circumstances, the doctoral degree can have been completed earlier.

Qualifications:
- PhD degree in epidemiology, public health, health economics, statistics, or related subject
- Excellent communication skills in English (oral and written)
- Solid knowledge of at least one statistical package such as Stata or R
- Good analytical skills

Merits: 
- Medical degree
- Computer science
- Knowledge and experience of medical, public health or epidemiological research issues
- Previous experience of working with Swedish or Nordic registry infrastructure and registry data
- Experience of analysis of individual data from registries
- Good communication skills in Swedish (written and oral)

Other
The department of infection medicine is now looking for a postdoctoral fellow for two years with proposed start date 2022-12-01, or by agreement.

Terms of employment
Employment as a postdoctoral fellow is a full-time employment limited to 2, maximum 3 years. The period of employment is determined in accordance with the agreement “Avtal om tidsbegränsad anställning som postdoktor” (“Agreement on fixed-term employment as a post-doctoral researcher”) between SACO-S, OFR/S and SEKO, dated November 19, 2021.

Instructions on how to apply
CV, personal letter, reference letter, diplomas of university degree and high school grades.