Job Summary

The Department of Population Health Sciences seeks a Scientist III to lead and support complex population-based environmental epidemiology and cohort-based research. This position will contribute senior scientific expertise in environmental exposure assessment, human biomonitoring, geospatial linkage, longitudinal cohort methods, community-engaged recruitment and data collection, grant development, data analysis, and manuscript preparation. The position will support studies examining environmental exposures, sleep, aging, respiratory and cardiometabolic outcomes, Alzheimer's disease-related biomarkers, and other population-health outcomes using resources such as the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort.

This position is full or part-time, 50%-100%. This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Attends and assists with the facilitation of scholarly events and presentations in support of continued professional development and the dissemination of research information
• Conducts literature reviews, prepares reports and materials and, disseminates information to appropriate entities
• Monitors program budget and approves unit expenditures
• Leads statewide human biomonitoring and environmental epidemiology initiatives focused on emerging contaminants (e.g., PFAS, micro- and nanoplastics, pesticides, metals), exposure assessment, and associated health outcomes through partnerships with Wisconsin state agencies, including the Department of Health Services, Department of Natural Resources, and Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.
• Lead interdisciplinary research examining how environmental exposures and sleep interact across the life course to influence neurocognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease biomarkers
• Leads development and implementation of life-course geospatial exposure linkage methods, including residential history reconstruction, contextual neighborhood-level environmental and social disadvantage metrics, and integration of environmental monitoring data (e.g., industrial and agricultural air emission sources, satellite-derived exposure models) with longitudinal cohort and biomonitoring infrastructure to evaluate environmental exposure pathways and impacts on respiratory, cardiometabolic, and aging-related health outcomes.
• Collects and analyzes highly complex research data, conducts experiments and interviews, and documents results according to established policies and procedures
• Develop and lead community-engaged and agency-partnered research initiatives in collaboration with community leaders, public health agencies, academic investigators, and stakeholder organizations to identify emerging environmental health concerns, vulnerable populations, and priorities for translational environmental health research and public health action.
• Serves as an institutional subject matter expert and liaison with key internal and external stakeholders providing expert level information and representing the interests of a specialized research area
• Identifies research problems and develops highly complex research methodologies and procedures. Publishes and presents results to help advance research
• May supervise the day-to-day activities of a research unit and staff and resolve routine personnel issues
• Identifies, writes, or assists in developing grant opportunities, grant applications, and proposals to secure research funding