Research Associate in Animal Health Epidemiology, Surveillance and Big Data

About The Team:

We are seeking an enthusiastic Post-Doctoral Student (or equivalent) to both lead and assist with the continued development of a novel Scottish animal health information system.

The Opportunity:

The goal of the system is to produce fit for purpose information to help farmers, veterinarians, and others to better manage livestock diseases. The system is stakeholder centric, in that the information produced is defined by stakeholders to meet their needs for decision making about livestock disease management.

This is a fixed term appointment for 3 years.

Information is created by integrating existing data sets, analysing them with a variety of methods including Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI approaches. The successful application will build on a strong foundation of tools, databases, software and relationships that have already been developed by the research team.

Your role will be both as a leader and as a team player in the following activities:

1. working with stakeholders to identify information needs
2. evaluating, processing, and linking data
3. analysing and visualizing data to create information products and apps to meet stakeholder needs and
4. managing existing and new projects.

You will be expected to work independently and in diverse teams. You will be mentored by t...