PostDoctoral Fellowship at Oklahoma State University. The university has a great family of faculty, staff, and students who take pride in the commitment to cause positive change in the world. From the classroom to the field, it works to develop systems that provide society’s most basic needs in a sustainable way. For more information, please visit: https://agriculture.okstate.edu/departments-programs/plant-soil/

Position Summary 

The Computational Agricultural Research Lab in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at Oklahoma State University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow in the area of dynamic crop modeling. The successful candidate will work with a diverse, multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Oklahoma and Kansas to develop genetically and physiologically informed wheat models for a genome to phenome prediction under the NSF RII Track-2 FEC: Building Field-based Ecophysiological Genome-to-Phenome Prediction project.

This PostDoctoral Fellowship at Oklahoma State University is an 11-month, non-tenure track faculty position. Post-doc appointments are made for a term of one year or less. Reappointment for a total period of not more than three years may be made.

Requirements

• Ph.D. / Ed.D. in agricultural sciences, soil sciences, or related discipline.
• Experience with dynamic, process-based modeling and statistical modeling.
• Experience working with ordinary differential equation models.
• Previous experience using the Stan probabilistic programming language.
• Knowledge of crop physiology.
• Expertise in Bayesian analysis and parameter estimation.
• Programming skills in R/Python.
• Familiarity with genetic marker data.
• Strong scientific communication skills.

Oklahoma State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Stillwater, Oklahoma. OSU is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity”. The Oklahoma State Cowboys and Cowgirls have won 52 national championships, a total greater than all but three NCAA Division I schools in the United States and all other universities in the Big 12 Conference.

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