Statistician/Data Scientist

Eawag the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology is an internationally networked aquatic research institute within the ETH Domain (Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology). Eawag conducts research education and expert consulting to achieve the dual goals of meeting direct human needs for water and maintaining the function and integrity of aquatic ecosystems.
The Department of Environmental Microbiology (Umik) and Urban Drainage (SWW) are looking for a
Data Scientist / Statistician 50-100% FTE (m/w/d)
Our work has led to long-term historically comparable time series data on respiratory pathogens Influenza RSV and SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater from wastewater treatment plants across Switzerland translation of the data into wastewater-derived effective reproduction numbers and genomic time series data on SARS-CoV-2 Influenza A and RSV from wastewater ().

The advertised position is focused on collating analysing and interpreting data generated through the project supporting database development and management and transferring knowledge to relevant stakeholders. The goal of the project is to advance environmental surveillance of wastewater to inform trajectory of pathogens in Switzerland.

or equivalent experience e.g. from industry or as member of a research laboratory team in statistics data science environmental sciences environmental engineering public health or related field with substantial statistics data analytics experience and database development experience you are invited to apply. Therefore we expect you can integrate well in our interdisciplinary team environment and also work independently (both at Eawag as well as in home office). It is very likely you will interact with multiple academic government and non-government institutional collaborators including leading international researchers in the field. Hence prior experience with stakeholder engagement including education and training is a strong asset. The working languages are English and German knowledge of additional languages is beneficial. Experience in R Python and SQL are required. The intended project start date is as soon as possible dependent on availability of the candidate.

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