Dear Colleagues, We will very soon have a postdoc position open with us 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 (hence this early pre-advertisement) until the end of October 2027. 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 [1],2 [2],3 [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 [4]] and in phylogeography [5 [5]] and phylodynamics [6 [6],7 [7]]. We will soon officially advertise the position, but for now, we would be very thankful if you could alert interested candidates or put them in contact with us. Best regards, Nicola De Maio and Nick Goldman @ebi.ac.uk 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)