Two or three new complex systems science positions are
available at the Post-doc or Assistant Research Scientist level.
The latter level allows a scientist to pursue their own grants at a
salary considerably above NIH post-doc levels and applies to
candidates who have demonstrated their capacity for
independent research. The work involved must relate different
modeling approaches at multiple levels concerned with the
infection transmission systems of influenza, norovirus, and
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We are
developing models capturing the transit of these organisms from
one person to another within diverse venue contexts. We then
relate these up to social simulations of transmission across broad
populations and down to within host models of immune effects on
the risk that infection takes off given different patterns of timing
and route of arrival of pathogens to host tissues. The use of
environmental agent level data and nucleotide sequence data
to inform Public Health decisions is a long term focus of this
program. Computer science and/or social and biological
system simulation expertise are desirable for these positions.
These positions will be in the Department of Epidemiology with a
link to the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the
University of Michigan.
Please contact both Jim Koopman
<address@hidden> and
Joe Eisenberg <
address@hidden> about these positions.
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Rick Riolo address@hidden
Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS)
323 West Hall
University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109-1107
Phone: 734 763 3323 Fax: 734 763 9267
http://cscs.umich.edu/~rlr