Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology

LIH - Luxembourg Institute of Health

Luxembourg

Key Accountabilities

• Undertake data management, processing, and analysis on environmental health/exposome-related datasets;
• Co-develop, together with the supervisor, an individual fellowship application (e.g. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship) in environmental health, including literature review, methodology design, and budget/work plan preparation;
• Contribute to grant applications;
• Contribute to identifying relevant funding opportunities and shaping new research ideas in environmental health and the exposome;
• Actively participate in the activities and meetings of CARES and the Department of Precision Health (e.g. presentations at seminars);
• Present research results at national and international conferences;
• Draft reports and publish research in peer-reviewed international journals;
• Engage in dissemination of results to national and international stakeholders.

Key Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• PhD in environmental epidemiology, biostatistics, mathematics, big data analysis or other related discipline;
• Eligible to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (in particular, must not have resided or carried out their main activity in Luxembourg for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the relevant call deadline). Please state clearly in your application if you meet this criterion;
• Experience modelling relationships between environmental exposures and human health;
• Good statistical knowledge;
• Experience with common programming languages (R, Python);
• Experience managing and analysing large datasets, particularly environment and/or health data;
• Familiarity with exposome concepts/methods is an asset;
• Good experience in scientific writing. Peer-reviewed publications would be an asset;
• Experience in contributing to grant or fellowship applications is an asset;
• Good organisational, communication, coordination, and planning skills.