Four (4) PhD Positions, Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS’21, Germany (2015-2016)

The Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS’21 funded by the Leibniz Association has been formed by the Research Center Borstel–Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences (FZB, www.fz-borstel.de) together with 13 institutions of the Leibniz association (Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering (ATB, www.atb-potsdam.de), Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM, www.bnitm.de), Leibniz-Institute DSMZ–German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ, www.dsmz.de), GESIS–Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS, www.gesis.org), GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA, www.giga-hamburg.de), Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology–Hans Knöll Institute (HKI, www.leibniz-hki.de), Heinrich-Pette-Institute–Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology (HPI, www.hpi-hamburg.de), Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries.

Despite significant progress in the combat of infectious diseases the past century, they remain a major challenge for human health worldwide. The emergence of novel infectious agents and multidrug resistant microbial strains, ecological alterations caused by climate change and human activities such as re-naturation of ecosystems, provide ecological conditions facilitating the spread of important infections. Socio-economic determinants such as income, nourishment, housing and working conditions and access to health systems may influence the spread and outcome of infectious diseases.

To address these issues, INFECTIONS’21 identified 4 cooperative and trans-disciplinary research projects, which will be performed by Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs) spanning biomedical, ecological, socio-economic and political sciences with the goal of linking the diversity of expertise to study the spread of infectious diseases by looking at biotic, abiotic and social determinants. We therefore seek to fill the following positions:
- 1 doctoral position in social science research on tuberculosis transmission
- 1 doctoral position in evolutionary ecology of water borne diseases
- 1 doctoral position in medical entomology
- 1 doctoral position in aerosol transmission properties of human pathogens

Further details:
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