Postdoc Opportunities in Causal Inference

The Department of Economics and Management at the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join the Agricultural Economics research group on the Viikki campus in Helsinki. The position is embedded in the new Intergenerational Transitions in the Nordics (NEXT) project, which examines how institutional conditions shape intergenerational farm succession and the evolution of farm businesses across Sweden and Finland. The project is compa...

Indiana University School of Medicine is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics and Health Data Science to advance research at the intersection of artificial intelligence for healthcare, multimodal data analysis, and causal AI. The fellow will lead original research involving diverse healthcare data, including electronic health records, medical imaging, omics, physiological signals, and clinical notes. The work will focus on developing, implementing, and rigorously evaluating algorithms ...

Nanyang Technological University Singapore is seeking a Research Fellow in Econometrics and Machine Learning within the Economics Programme of the School of Social Sciences. This postdoctoral research role focuses on developing reliable econometric methods for instrumental-variable estimation and inference in challenging empirical settings. The project addresses weak instruments, high-dimensional instruments or controls, and clustered data. The Research Fellow will develop weak-identification-ro...

This opening is for a highly accomplished senior postdoctoral researcher to help lead a causal target validation program at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney. The project sits at the interface of functional genomics, mechanistic biology, and translational therapeutic discovery, using large-scale genomic insights to uncover how genetic variation alters gene regulation, cellular states, and disease biology. The work builds on the TenK10K initiative, described in the advert as the ...

This postdoctoral position at the University of California, Irvine sits in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics within the Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health . The role is centered on developing and applying statistical and machine learning methods for high-dimensional data analysis , causal inference , and data integration . The appointee will work on methodological research while also collaborating with researchers across a broad range of biomedical areas. The projec...

This postdoctoral associate position is based in Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science, Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, and will be embedded in the Equitable Agricultural Research (EQUAL) Lab. The role sits at the intersection of agricultural research, farmer decision-making, and participatory plant breeding, with work spanning the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Cornell’s broader transdisciplinary research ecosystem. The appointed researcher will lead a s...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Econometrics and Causal Inference at the University of Groningen , Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. This is a three-year postdoctoral position funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) project Evaluation of Policy Interventions on Societal Inequality . The project is centered on the development of new econometric methods to assess the distributional effects of policy interventions. The methodological core includes distribution regression, difference-...

The Ohio State University is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Scholar in the College of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics, located in Columbus, United States. The postdoctoral researcher will conduct methodological research in infectious disease epidemiology , developing practical and computationally efficient methods for adapting and fitting survival-analysis models to infectious disease transmission data. Projects may use household- or population-level data, including genetic sequences ...

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Population Wellness Lab, led by Dr. Christy A. Denckla in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The lab studies how adversity affects human potential and well-being, with current emphasis on bereavement, trauma, social disruption, and mental and physical health across the lifespan. Funded by a five-year National Institute of Mental Healt...