The Department of Biostatistics at EBPI invites applications for a four-year PhD position financed by the SNSF in the structured PhD Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Life Science Zurich Graduate School.
Your responsibilities
- Specification of reproducibility rules for the whole project
- Review of frequentist and Bayesian statistical methods
- Consolidation of methods through mathematical derivations
- Implementation of methods in functions in the open-source software R
- Documentation of functions and contributions to an R package and a Shiny web application
- Validation of methods through simulations and applications to real-world data
- Presentation of research results at international scientific meetings
- Publication of research results in peer-reviewed journal articles
- Supervision of master theses
- Teaching assistant duties in the Master Program in Biostatistics
- Assistance in organizing workshops
Your profile
What we offer:
We offer a dynamic and attractive work and research environment focused on reproducibility and best-practice statistical methods. Our team consists of experienced and junior researchers from diverse back-grounds who mutually support each other through their complementary expertise. There is a large research community including many PhD students in the Department of Biostatistics itself and in the structured PhD Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Life Science Zurich Graduate School. Joint UZH and ETH seminars are regularly organized. The successful PhD candidate will obtain a PhD (Dr. sc. nat.) in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the Faculty of Science at University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Information on your application
Apply to the Structured PhD Program «Epidemiology and Biostatistics».
The review of applications will start on November 1, 2024, and continue until the position is filled