The Faculty wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to participate in a five-year, large-grant project on the epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis in wild badgers, using state-of-the-art Bayesian modelling approaches to study the drivers of infectiousness and transmission of infection in an intensively monitored wildlife disease system, with real-world applications for UK agriculture and conservation science. This NERC-funded post is available from Jan. 1, 2026, to Dec. 31, 2031. The successful applicant will use state-of-the-art inference algorithms to design, use and share the findings of epidemiological models that integrate across large and diverse datasets including capture-mark-recapture for demography and social network structure; genome re-sequencing for pedigree information and genomic prediction; diagnostic testing for infection status and prevalence of bTB. The Research Fellow will join a team of five postdoctoral researchers, research faculty from Universities of Exeter, Sheffield and Edinburgh, and project partners from the Animal and Plant Health Agency, DEFRA and the Office for Environmental Protection.
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