Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology

The Socio-Economic, Environmental Health and Health Services (CARES) research group in the Department of Precision Health is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology.

CARES adopts an interdisciplinary approach to research on health disparities, environmental health challenges, health services and systems, population health and wellbeing, and policy impact evaluation. Among our objectives is the investigation of factors that contribute to health disparities, including social determinants of health, socio-economic inequalities, and environmental exposures, to inform interventions and policies that promote health equity.

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to CARES' growing portfolio of research on environmental health and the exposome, while being actively supported to develop and submit an individual fellowship application (e.g. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship) to establish an independent research line within the group.

Under the supervision of Dr Ruiz-Castell, the Postdoctoral Fellow will contribute to data processing and analysis on ongoing and developing environmental health/exposome projects and will co-develop a competitive grant proposal in environmental health during the contract.

Key Accountabilities

• Undertake data management, processing, and analysis on environmental health/exposome-related datasets
• Co-develop, together with the supervisor, an individual fellowship application (e.g. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship) in environmental health, including literature review, methodology design, and budget/work plan preparation
• Contribute to grant applications
• Contribute to identifying relevant funding opportunities and shaping new research ideas in environmental health and the exposome
• Actively participate in the activities and meetings of CARES and the Department of Precision Health (e.g. presentations at seminars). 
• Present research results at national and international conferences.
• Draft reports and publish research in peer-reviewed international journals.
• Engage in dissemination of results to national and international stakeholders.

Key Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• PhD in environmental epidemiology, biostatistics, mathematics, big data analysis or other related discipline.
• Eligible to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (in particular, must not have resided or carried out their main activity in Luxembourg for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the relevant call deadline). Please state clearly in your application if you meet this criterion.
• Experience modelling relationships between environmental exposures and human health.
• Good statistical knowledge.
• Experience with common programming languages (R, Python).
• Experience managing and analysing large datasets, particularly environment and/or health data.
• Familiarity with exposome concepts/methods is an asset.
• Good experience in scientific writing. Peer-reviewed publications would be an asset.
• Experience in contributing to grant or fellowship applications is an asset.
• Good organisational, communication, coordination, and planning skills.

Applications including a cover letter and a curriculum vitae should be sent before September 01, 2026, via our website www.LIH.lu/jobs with the ref: MC/PDEE726/MRC/CARES

Gender Equality

The LIH is an equal opportunities employer.  We are fully committed to removing any discriminatory barrier related to gender, and not only, in recruitment and career progression of our staff.

The LIH is attentive to gender representation among its leadership staff and aims to eliminate obstacles to recruitment and promotion of female leaders and their career development.