A Postdoctoral position is available starting in the 2026-27 academic year in the team of Prof. Michael Edelstein, professor of public health and epidemiology at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.<\/p>\n
Prof Michael Edelstein\u2019s team focuses on improving the equitable delivery of immunization programs, including optimizing approaches to data use to improve the delivery of these programs.
\nUnder vaccination costs 2 million lives and $250 billion every year. We are building something new to address it \u2014 and we’re looking for the person who will help us build it from the ground up. We are interested in recruiting a postdoctoral fellow, initially for a period of 12 months (extensible subject to mutual satisfaction), to focus on a new initiative: building a synthetic population mirroring Israeli society, seeded from real-world survey and interview data, to enable virtual evaluations of vaccine-related public health interventions before deploying them in the real world. Down the line, success with this project has the potential to change how governments design and implement vaccination strategies. The project sits at the forefront of the intersection between AI, epidemiology and health policy.<\/p>\n
The Role<\/strong> Specifically, the right candidate will<\/strong> The following are required:<\/strong> A strong plus (but not required):<\/strong> The position is based at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine in Safed, Northern Israel. Working arrangements are flexible, including hybrid arrangements for the right candidate.<\/p>\n In your application, include: If you are interested but not sure whether your profile matches, or if you have questions, please don\u2019t hesitate to contact us!<\/p>\n
\nThis is a central position at the heart of the project. This is a new project, and you will be there from day 1, impacting on the entire approach, not just the outputs. You will work directly alongside the Principal Investigator, have an opportunity to steer the project\u2019s direction, own the technical pipeline, and mentor\/supervise junior team members. The project navigates relatively uncharted methodological territory, and the right candidate will be energized rather than unsettled by that: he\/she will have to demonstrate flexibility, creativity, an appetite for risk and the ability to adapt when things don\u2019t go according to plan.<\/p>\n
\nLead the integration of real world data into agent parameters
\nBuild and maintain the LLM-driven agentic simulation framework
\nDesign and Coordinate the AI coding pipeline and human validation process
\nCollaborate closely with other epidemiologists, modelers, and qualitative researchers
\nMentor and or\/supervise junior team members
\nLead the execution of the project\u2019s scientific outputs
\nPresent the project\u2019s outputs in scientific conferences.<\/p>\n
\nPhD in epidemiology, public health, computational social science, computer science or a related field
\nDemonstrated experience working with agentic AI frameworks and large language models \u2014 ideally in applied or research settings
\nStrong track record of handling, linking, and analyzing complex, multi-source datasets
\nExperience of at least one statistical package such as R or Python
\nFluency in English
\nDemonstrable track record of scientific curiosity, taking initiative and being proactive
\nA publication track record
\nAbility to work across disciplines<\/p>\n
\nFamiliarity with disease modelling or simulation
\nLanguages relevant to Israel (Hebrew, Arabic, Russian)
\nBackground in vaccines, health policy, or population health research<\/p>\n
\n-A detailed CV (2 pages maximum) including publications
\n-A short covering letter in English (1 page maximum) highlighting your motivation for applying and your relevant research experience and capabilities<\/p>\nTell them you heard about the position from Nefesh B\u2019Nefesh. Please do not repost.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":100039436,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"Michael.edelstein@biu.ac.il","_company_name":"Bar-Ilan University","_company_website":"https:\/\/medicine.biu.ac.il\/en","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job_listing_region":[23267],"job-categories":[111],"job-types":[2,23248],"class_list":["post-100039435","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","job_listing_region-tzfat","job_listing_category-science-academia-and-research","job_listing_type-full-time","job_listing_type-hybrid","job-type-full-time","job-type-hybrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbn.org.il\/jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/100039435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbn.org.il\/jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbn.org.il\/jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbn.org.il\/jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbn.org.il\/jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100039436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbn.org.il\/jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100039435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbn.org.il\/jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_region?post=100039435"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbn.org.il\/jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=100039435"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbn.org.il\/jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=100039435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}