Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term)

We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA, jointly supervised by Dr Gamze Gursoy in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Dr Aylwyn Scally in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.

The successful candidate will work at the interface of environmental DNA, human population genetics, mathematical modelling, statistical inference, and genomic data science. The project will develop quantitative approaches for understanding how human genetic variation can be detected, modelled, interpreted, and protected in environmental DNA datasets.

The role is primarily computational and theoretical, and is particularly suited to a researcher with a strong quantitative background in the mathematics of population genetics, statistical genetics, evolutionary modelling, applied probability, computational biology, or a related field.

Applicants should have completed, or be close to completing, a Ph.D. in population genetics, mathematical genetics, statistics, evolutionary genetics, computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, or a closely related quantitative field.

Fixed-term: The appointment is for an initial period of 4 years.

Please be advised that, in accordance with funding requirements, applicants must not have resided in the UK for more than 24 months immediately prior to the proposed start date.