PhD in Biostatistics

Applications are invited for a 4-year PhD position in Biostatistics, in a project on causal inference for the effects of vaccines and other pharmaceuticals, at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE), Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo (UiO)./nThe position is full-time for a duration of four years and includes 25% work dedicated to career promoting work such as teaching, advising and other activities within UiO:Life Science, the convergence environment and OCBE./nThe project will focus on methodological challenges in defining, identifying and estimating the causal effects of vaccines and other pharmaceuticals from observational data, real-world studies of effectiveness and safety of pharmaceuticals using linked data from population-wide Norwegian health registries, and data simulations (e.g. based in mathematical models for infectious diseases)./nA main focus will be on the analysis of complex event history data, including competing risks, individual heterogeneity, and estimation using machine learning methods. The workplace is OCBE’s premises in the UiO building Domus Medica in Oslo.