Postdoc in epidemiology and women’s mental health during perimenopause

A three-year full-time postdoc at the Research Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, working with Principal Investigator Professor Trine Munk-Olsen. The position is funded by the Wellcome Trust through PROMIS, an international project on women’s mental health during perimenopause that uses cohort data linked to national registers with researchers in the UK, the USA and Sweden. The research investigates risk factors for the onset or recurrence of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and psychotic disorders during perimenopause, develops and validates prediction models, and studies hormone therapy and mental-health outcomes using target trial emulation.

Starting date: 1 February 2027 or later by agreement.

A PhD in epidemiology, health sciences, biostatistics or data science with a strong health focus; first-author papers in register- or cohort-based epidemiology; advanced epidemiological and statistical methods; statistical programming in R or Stata.