Ast, Aso or Full Professor

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Ast, Aso, or Full Professor

The Department of Biostatistics and the Department of Epidemiology have launched a joint search under the Neuroscience Initiative and invite applications for up to three full-time (1.0 FTE), 12-month tenured or tenure track open rank faculty positions. The successful candidates will be part of an academic community that prioritizes innovation, creativity, and collaboration.

The University of Florida has significant breadth and depth in neuroscience research. This includes, for example, research in neuro- and neuromuscular imaging, movement disorders, spinal cord injury and stroke, neurodegenerative diseases, and neurorehabilitation. Focus is now being placed on leveraging the existing strengths of UF to recruit faculty in biostatistics and epidemiology who can serve as neuroscience principal investigators and collaborators.

There is a tremendous need for faculty who can perform epidemiological/clinical epidemiology/biostatistics studies in neurosciences. Some examples include the genetics of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson’s disease; risk factors for poor neurodevelopment in children; neuroprevention; the effects of exposure (e.g., cannabis) on neurocognition; the downstream effects of early- and mid-life social determinants of health on late life cognitive trajectories; rehabilitation for those with neurological disorders;

proper modeling of neuroimaging data; and integration of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and imaging data to understand neurological conditions and responses to therapy.

A ready collaborative infrastructure exists across UF; for example, the departments of Clinical and Health Psychology, Neurology, Neuroscience, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy, and the McKnight Brain Institute and the 1

Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

The successful candidates will be expected to contribute both collaboratively and independently to externally funded research. Applicants will be expected to be principal investigators of extramurally funded research projects. Placement within PHHP/COM will be determined upon identification of a candidate for hire but are expected to be within the Department of Biostatistics or the Department of Epidemiology. The successful candidates will be expected to teach courses that fit within those departments and/or our public health programs, as well as contribute to service through student mentorship and committee service.

Faculty members receive both research and teaching support provided by our college level research core for grant development and submission as well as the instructional design team for course development and delivery.

UF Biostatistics
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Faculty members are jointly appointed in the College of Public Health and Health Professions and the College of Medicine. Faculty pursue independent and collaborative research; they also teach in the MS and PhD in Biostatistics programs and support a concentration in Biostatistics as part of the Master's of Public Health program. They are advisors and mentors to a wide variety of students.

Current faculty members are leaders in artificial intelligence, big data analysis, cancer, genetics, infectious disease modeling and intervention studies, medical image processing, metabolomics data analysis, survival analysis, causal inference, statistical methods of health surveys, high dimensional inference, longitudinal data analysis, and clinical trials. The department is home to the Children’s Oncology Group, the Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases and multiple NIH and other grants.

The department is ranked No. 11 in biostatistics programs at public universities by U.S. News & World Report.

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