You have an enthusiastic motivation for a postdoc position in translational public health research, with interest in infectious diseases and vaccination. You are a team player, with respectful attitude towards colleagues and collaborators. You are able to work independently quickly, while maintaining close relationships with your colleagues. You showcase originality and creativity in scientific questions, presentation and publication.

Furthermore you have:

• A PhD in microbiology or computational biology (background in microbiome research and immunology).
• A strong background on data science, with an analytical mind-set and independent work attitude, and ample experience in data-analysis with R and Python.
• Excellent skills in English (speech and writing)

Competences:

• Result-oriented
• Analytical mind-set
• Team player
• Creative
• Organized

Fixed-term contract: 24 months.

• Salarisniveau: schaal 10
• Maandsalaris: Min €2.957 – Max. €4.707 (bruto)
• Dienstverband: Arbeidsovereenkomst voor bepaalde tijd
• Contractduur: 24 maanden
• Minimaal aantal uren per week: 32
• Maximaal aantal uren per week: 36

Overige arbeidsvoorwaarden

In addition to the salary, you will receive an Individual Choice Budget (IKB). The IKB consists of money (16.37% of your gross annual salary) and time. With the IKB you make the choices that suit you and you can put together part of your employment conditions yourself. For example, you can choose to have part of your monthly income paid out whenever you wish. You can also convert this budget into leave and vice versa or spend it on tax-friendly goals. The central government is keen to promote personal growth and career development and offers plenty of opportunities to do so. The fringe benefits include various study facilities, company fitness, full reimbursement of your public transport commuting expenses and partially paid parental leave.

The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) protects and promotes public health and consumer safety, and we help to protect the quality of the environment. We’ve done so for more than a hundred years and RIVM has become a knowledge institute that is at the heart of society. RIVM carries out independent research and provides the government with trusted policy advice regarding health and the environment. We deal with issues concerning infectious diseases, vaccinations, population studies, lifestyle, nutrition, drugs, the environment, sustainability and safety. We do this through research, advice, direction or implementation. RIVM annually produces and publishes numerous reports.

The center for Immunology of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines (IIV) at RIVM is the knowledge center of the government in the field of immunology of infectious diseases and vaccines. The core mission of this center is to provide information and advice about effectiveness of vaccines, vaccination strategies and immune responses against infectious diseases to parties within the government and to the general public. In support of this task, research performed at IIV is focused on optimization of the effectiveness and safety of current and future vaccination programs, immunosurveillance, age-related efficacy of the immune responses and correlates of protection. In this work the center collaborates intensively with other RIVM knowledge centers and national and international collaborators specializing in immunology, microbiology, epidemiology and outbreak control of infectious diseases.

Are you eager to join our team with strong believes in open science? Then apply now. Do you have some questions first? Then please contact dr. Susana Fuentes (Microbiome & Immunology group leader) at susana.fuentes@rivm.nl. 

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