Research Fellow in Mathematical modelling of the Bunyaviruses intra-cellular life cycle at the University of Leeds

Are you an enthusiastic and motivated researcher with an interest in developing models to understand viral infection dynamics? Would you like to use your mathematical, statistical and computational skills to understand the intracellular life cycle of Bunyaviruses? Are you interested in the opportunity to gain experience working in a cross-disciplinary team in collaboration with international partners?

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You will contribute to the development of mathematical models of the intracellular life cycle of Bunyaviruses with reassortment. You will work in an inter-disciplinary environment in the Mathematical Immunology group at the School of Mathematics in Leeds. You will work together with a second Research Fellow in the Faculty of Biological Sciences who will experimentally quantify intracellular viral dynamics. You will use stochastic and deterministic approaches, and develop computational tools to parametrise mathematical models of a single viral infection and co-infection, with the datasets generated by the experimental Fellow, who will work under the supervision of Dr John Barr in the Faculty of Biological Sciences.

You will hold a PhD (or be close to completion) in Mathematics, Statistics or Physics, with expertise and experience of developing and applying mathematical models, statistical inference of the models with experimental data and computational simulations.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Dr Martin Lopez Garcia, Lecturer, School of Mathematics

Email: [email protected]

Prof Grant Lythe, Professor, School of Mathematics

Email: [email protected]

Please note:

If you are not a British or Irish citizen, from 1 January 2021 you will require permission to work in the UK. This will normally be in the form of a visa but, if you are an EEA/Swiss citizen and resident in the UK before 31 December 2020, this may be your passport or status under the EU Settlement Scheme.

Location: 

Leeds - Main Campus

Faculty/Service: 

Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences

School/Institute: 

School of Mathematics

Category: 

Research

Grade: 

Grade 7

Salary: 

£33,797 to £40,322 p.a.

Due to funding restrictions an appointment will not be made above £36,914 p.a.

Working Time: 

37.5 hours per week

Post Type: 

Full Time

Contract Type: 

Fixed Term (36 months (grant funding))

Release Date: 

Tuesday 02 November 2021

Closing Date: 

Tuesday 30 November 2021

Interview Date: 

To be confirmed

Reference: 

EPSMA1049

Downloads:

Candidate Brief