Postdoctoral position in phylodynamics at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK As previously teased, we now have a postodoc position open at EMBL-EBI on 'pandemic-scale phylodynamics', in collaboration also with the Duchene, Lemoine and Zhukova groups at Institute Pasteur, and the McHardy group at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research. We want to hire somebody from as soon as possible until the end of October 2027. Some details are included below, and please see the official announcement at the application portal at http://tiny.cc/EBIphylodynamics Best regards, Nicola De Maio and Nick Goldman @ebi.ac.uk We are looking for somebody with statistical/computational/genomic epidemiology expertise and skills.� Interest and/or experience in large-scale genomic data analysis and simulation would be a great plus. The aims of our side of the project will be: - developing methods for large-scale global genomic epidemiological simulations, and create a general framework for benchmarking phylodynamic inference methods. - extending MAPLE [1,2,3] to allow massive time tree and phylogeographic inference. - benchmarking existing phylodynamic/phylogeographic methods at large scale. The candidate will be expected to contribute to at least some of these tasks. We will coordinate work on these topics with our collaborators, who will develop scalable methods for the inference of variant fitness [4] and in phylogeography [5] and phylodynamics [6,7]. Links: [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01368-0 [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09567-x [3] https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.12.603240 [4] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60231-4 [5] https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz131 [6] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31511-0 [7] https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syad059 Nick Goldman (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)