PhD position in Population Health Science research on historical pandemics and epidemics
Description of the PhD project
The title of the PhD project is: ‘Infectious disease landscapes and pandemic interactions’
The project will explore how various epidemic infectious disease interacted with one another at the population level, and in particular how pandemics affected such interactions. The PhD project is part of a larger Sapere Aude research project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) with the title: Post-pandemic infectious disease landscapes: interactions across time and space (PID-scapes). The project focuses on the late 19th and early 20th century where two major pandemics occurred: 1889-92 and 1918-20. The analyses of disease interactions will utilize already collected data and collect new data sources. You will work in close collaboration with the project team and the PandemiX Center at the Department of Science and Environment at RUC, which means an opportunity to engage with a highly interdisciplinary and supportive research environment. The project offers an exciting opportunity to conduct highly relevant research in terms of pandemic preparedness in the wake of the recent Covid-19 pandemic.
The Principal Investigator (PI) of PID-scapes and supervisor of the PhD project is associate professor Maarten van Wijhe, IMT at Roskilde University.
You are expected to attend national and international conferences and write scientific papers to be published in the international literature as well as write and defend a PhD thesis based on the research project. During the project there is at least one research stay abroad (up to two months) with our collaborative partners of historical epidemiology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.