A position is currently available for a doctoral student in ecological
modeling to jointly work in the research groups of David Liberles
(http://sites.temple.edu/liberles/) and Brent Sewall
(http://sites.temple.edu/bjsewall/) in the Department of Biology at
Temple University (https://bio.cst.temple.edu) in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA. This is a dynamic and growing department at a major
research university, set within a large city with diverse cultural
opportunities.
The successful candidate will focus on the development of novel
approaches for building mechanistic models of ecological interaction
networks, and for using these models to derive the structure of
ecological networks on the basis of incomplete data. The focus will be
on building functional ecology models for species interactions in
ecological communities treated as connected graphs or networks, with
edges or links reflecting pairwise species interactions. The successful
candidate will work with the Liberles and Sewall labs to develop models
that are generalizable across a diversity of systems. Such systems may
range from host-pathogen systems with pathogen frequency data obtained
at within-host scales from metagenomic analyses to mutualistic or
predator-prey systems with interaction data obtained at ecosystem scales
and measured or inferred from field observations. The ideal student will
be either a biologist with a strong
mathematical/statistical/computational orientation or a
mathematician/statistician/computer scientist /physicist) with a strong
biological background.
To apply, visit:
https://bio.cst.temple.edu/graduate/applying-to-our-program/online-
application/
Applications are preferred by January 15, 2016 or as soon thereafter as
possible.
It is also highly recommended that interested applicants contact
Dr. Liberles and Dr. Sewall in advance of application to the program or
as soon thereafter as possible. Please include with your correspondence
a CV, statement of research interests, and contact information for three
references. Correspondence may be addressed to daliber...@temple.edu
and to bjsew...@temple.edu.
