PhD or postdoc in survival analysis

The Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA) of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, has a vacancy for a fulltime PhD position and a fulltime postdoc position

Semiparametric Inference for Survival and Cure Models.
The candidate will work in a large research group in this area, including 5 academic members and a number of PhD students and postdocs. The research group works on a variety of research questions in survival analysis, ranging from theoretical to more applied problems, and using both Bayesian and frequentist approaches.
The candidate will also be involved on a small scale into some teaching activities of the institute.

Job requirements
For the PhD position : master degree in (bio)statistics or a related discipline. The diploma must have been obtained with at least distinction or an equivalent grade.
For the postdoc position : PhD in (bio)statistics or a related discipline.
Good knowledge of written and spoken English is required. No proper knowledge of French is required.

Terms of employment For the PhD position : a tax-free monthly grant of up to 4 years
For the postdoc position : a grant or contract of 1 year (possibly renewable under certain conditions)

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