PhD fellowship causal inference at the SMARTbiomed Pioneer centre

Employment type: FULLTIME. Requisition: 3108340. The Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen offers a PhD fellowship in causal inference. The anticipated hiring date is January 1, 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The PhD student is expected to develop and apply methods for causal inference will be part of the SMARTbiomed Pioneer centre https://SMARTbiomed.dk/about-SMARTbiomed. Project Description The PhD project will develop new methods for causal inference in complex longitudinal survival data, with applications to nationwide Danish health registries.

The project focuses on dynamic and asynchronously initiated combination treatments, where time-varying confounding, competing risks, treatment non-adherence and time-related biases challenge conventional analyses.

By integrating mathematics, biostatistics and clinical epidemiology, and working with methods like random forest and targeted learning, the candidate will contribute to the development of interpretable survival models and doubly robust estimation methods for clinically meaningful causal effects. The methods will be applied to real-world questions concerning combination drug therapies in people with type 2 diabetes1 …