[Population Modeling] Computational Modelling postdoc positions available Sweden

[Katie Bentley]

Hi all, I have two postdoc positions for computational modellers available in my Swedish lab that I think could suit people in groups from this list – I’d be very grateful if you could share with your groups, sorry for cross-posting!

I have two positions available for postdocs in my Swedish “Cellular Adaptive Behaviour” Lab working directly with some of the best vascular biologists in the world, who are also based in the same department at Uppsala University to build predictive simulations to go back and forth with their experiments. The projects focus on understanding how blood vessels grow and why they become abnormal and dysfunctional in many diseases such as cancer and blindness, with the ultimate aim to help develop novel therapeutic strategies.

The roles involve developing new spatiotemporal simulations (experience in individual-based modelling a definite plus) and creative collaborative problem solving, thus strong programming and communication skills are essential. Knowledge of the biology area is not expected, just a passion for learning new skills/areas! These positions provide a great opportunity to develop towards independence in cross-disciplinary research as the projects involve working with internationally leading researchers in this area and becoming part of a lab with two transatlantic locations (Boston University USA and Uppsala University Sweden, though these roles will primarily be based in Sweden, there will be many opportunities to travel).

Full job advert and application process: https://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/621977-postdoc-position-in-computational-modeling

Do email me with any questions and please share with any other mailing lists/people who may suit this kind of position!


Thanks!

Katie Bentley

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Dr Katie Bentley

Assistant Professor,
University of Uppsala, Sweden

Research Assistant Professor,
Boston University, USA

Group Leader,
Cellular Adaptive Behaviour Lab,
Uppsala / Boston

web: http://www.igp.uu.se/research/vascular-biology/katie-bentley/

email:  Katie.bentley at igp.uu.se<mailto:Katie.bentley at igp.uu.se> / katieab at bu.edu<mailto:kbentley at bidmc.harvard.edu>




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Date: Friday, 18 August 2017 at 07:37
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Subject: [Population Modeling] Matching people into relationships

Dear All

Stefan and I have published a paper analysing several algorithms that pair agents in microsimulations or agent-based models. This models  people forming sexual relationships in a natural population (very coarsely of course). It has uses for modelling sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Some of the algorithms are fast and do a reasonable job of approximating the underlying distribution of relationships. In our current (not yet published) work, we run microsimulations of 40 million agents, modelling daily updates for 10 years, and it takes a little over 5 hours to complete a single simulation on a mid-range Lenova i5.

We hope our paper is useful to researchers working on STI microsimulations who are struggling with this. We will shortly submit a follow-up paper that uses some of these algorithms in a microsimulation of STIs. All our code is open source (C++, with a bit of R for analysis - license is GPL v3) and on Github. You are welcome to email me if you have questions about how to use it, concerns, criticisms, or suggestions for improvement (I may be a little slow to reply).

Here is the paper:
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/4/8.html

Here is the pair-matching algorithm code:
https://github.com/nathangeffen/pairmatchingalgorithms

And here is our new microsimulation code, which is still rough around the edges:
https://github.com/nathangeffen/faststi

Regards
Nathan Geffen
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