# Two fully funded PhD positions in real-time infectious disease modelling (LSHTM / Imperial / UKHSA)

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**Created:** [December 17, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-real-time-infectious-disease-modelling-lshtm-imperial-ukhsa/134609 "2025-12-17T10:55:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-real-time-infectious-disease-modelling-lshtm-imperial-ukhsa/134609/1 "2025-12-17T10:55:22Z")

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Two fully funded PhD positions in real-time infectious disease modelling and forecasting, jointly supervised between the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Imperial College London (Anne Cori), and UK Health Security Agency (Edwin van Leeuwen).

The focus is on developing methods that feed into operational outbreak response by UKHSA and others. We’re pivoting our tooling to Julia (past work is in R/Stan) and would be happy for a student to build in Julia for this. We’re looking for people who enjoy tackling statistical and computational problems and want to apply that to public health.

UK home students only, unfortunately. Start April or September 2026.  
See the full details at [https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/funding-scholarships/phd-studentships-health-analytics-and-modelling](https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/funding-scholarships/phd-studentships-health-analytics-and-modelling)

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**Author:** ![seabbs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/seabbs/32/31171_2.png) [@seabbs](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/seabbs)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 11:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-real-time-infectious-disease-modelling-lshtm-imperial-ukhsa/134609/2 "2025-12-17T11:48:39Z")

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I am tangentially involved in these projects. For people interested, here is a sample of some of my direction of travel with Julia recently.

> **[GitHub - EpiAware/CaseForComposableIDModels: We make the case for composable probabilistic...](https://github.com/EpiAware/CaseForComposableIDModels/)**
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> We make the case for composable probabilistic infectious disease models, outline requirements, and present a proof of concept built on Julia's type system and Turing.jl

> **[CensoredDistributions.jl: Primary event censored distributions ·...](https://censoreddistributions.epiaware.org/dev/)**
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> Documentation for CensoredDistributions.jl.

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**Author:** ![adolgert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/adolgert/32/20286_2.png) [@adolgert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/adolgert)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-real-time-infectious-disease-modelling-lshtm-imperial-ukhsa/134609/3 "2025-12-17T12:42:47Z")

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It’s nice to see the pieces of this problem put together in a rigorous way. There is great work on parts of the problem using individual R packages, but composing the models with Turing seems like a powerful step. Cheers - Drew