Postdoctoral Opportunities

Training
  • The Population Research Institute at Penn State anticipates openings for an NIA-funded trainee in Emerging Disparities in Population Health. Owing to sponsor requirements, applicants must be U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents. Screening of applications will begin on February 17, 2025 and continue until the position is filled.
  • The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Albany, is seeking applicants for a Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth plus (PRODiG+) Fellowship in Biological Anthropology or Human Biology. PRODiG+ is an initiative of SUNY system aiming to (1) increase the number and share of excellent diverse faculty committed to advancing the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion; and (2) strengthen the pipeline for retention and support of those faculty. This is a 12 month position that is expected to be two years in duration. Through the PRODiG+ program, SUNY expects to generate a pipeline of over 400 postdoctoral fellows to enter tenure-track faculty positions over the next 10 years. The area of research specialization should complement departmental strengths in Demography, Functional Morphology, Biomechanics, Comparative Biology, Primate Variation, Human Growth and Development, Health and Statistics. The Fellow will work with school faculty to advance their personal research portfolio with journal publications and presentations and national/international conferences.
  • The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research invites applications from qualified and highly motivated students for a 3.5-year St Andrews–Max Planck PhD studentship in Population, Health and Data Science. The PhD studentship is funded by the University of St Andrews and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). The PhD student will be working on a project on fertility dynamics and patterns in high-income countries. The project will investigate recent fertility trends in high-income countries and how fertility dynamics are related to changes in individuals’ other life domains (e.g. partnerships, education, employment, housing) and to changes in their socio-economic context. The project will involve analysis of individual-level data from high-income countries (including the UK). The project will be part of the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS) (link), the Centre for Population Change & Connecting Generations (link), and the ERC-funded project “Untangling biologic and social causes of low fertility in modern societies” (BIOSFER; link). The studentship is available from October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.
  • The Population Research Center at Portland State University engages in demographic research with public policy applications. The Postdoctoral Scholar will be responsible for the development of tools to aid in the forecast of future racial and ethnic population characteristics in the United States, that can be used to improve state and county-level population forecasts. Expected outcomes of the research by the conclusion of the term include: (1) factors for allocating projected births into race/ethnicity categories, which vary by the demographic characteristics of the parent(s); (2) factors for generating transitions across the life course by race/ethnicity categories, which vary by demographic characteristics of the subject and other relevant contextual factors, and which account for differing coding practices for race/ethnicity. The work may require use of a Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC), which requires Special Sworn Status (SSS) clearance. Therefore, candidates must be a US citizen or foreign national with 3 of the past 5 years of physical residency in the US. Candidates with existing SSS clearance strongly preferred.
  • The parasitic infectious disease group of Dr. Joana C Silva, Professor at the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS, http://www.igs.umaryland.edu) seeks applicants for one (possibly two) postdoctoral scholar positions. IGS at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine is an interdisciplinary, multi-departmental team of collaborative investigators with a broad research program related to the basic and translational sciences, genomics, epigenetics, and bioinformatics. The impact of the members of IGS on the genomics field has been substantial, with more than 2000 publications during the past 26 years, which have been cited more than 300,000 times, making IGS one of the most productive institutions in the region. Qualified candidates will be enthusiastic, highly motivated and interested in studying the evolution of malaria parasites, with emphasis on Plasmodium falciparum, and/or host-parasite interactions. Available research topics for this position are varied and include 1) parasite genetic variation and its impact on vaccine escape; 2) evolutionary (distant past) or historical (recent past) P. falciparum demography; 3) host immune responses to parasite co-infection. 

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