Wastewater Microbiomes for Next-Gen Public Health Monitoring
Duration of contract: 4 years
Planned starting date: Jan 2024 - March 2024
Place of work: Medical University of Vienna
Main supervisor: Andreas Bergthaler (CV | Lab Homepage)
Supervision team: TBA
This position has been filled.
Project description:
We look for a highly motivated PhD candidate with keen interests in public health, wastewater-based epidemiology and data science. The candidate will be responsible to collect and analyze health and socioeconomic data, and contribute to the generation and interpretation of pathogen sequencing data from wastewater. Key public health parameters such as physician consultations, drug use and sickness-related absenteeism, will be modeled to assess the potential of wastewater as an early warning system.
Accordingly, the candidate should have experience in multivariate statistics, virology and microbiology. Prior experience with molecular biology. Command of German language to interact with local stakeholders is an advantage. The successful candidate will join a supportive, diverse and international research team which includes molecular and computational biologists, statisticians and next-generation sequencing experts.
References: Amman F et al. Nature Biotechnology 2022 (doi: 10.1038/s41587-022-01387-y), Popa A et al. Science Translational Medicine 2020 (doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abe2555).