Doctoral Researcher in Occupational Cancer Epidemiology (NordExCan) / Väitöskirjatutkija NordExCan-

Doctoral Researcher in Occupational Cancer Epidemiology (NordExCan) / Väitöskirjatutkija NordExCan-tutkimushankkeeseen

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The Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Sciences Unit (HES) at Tampere University invite applications for the position of

Doctoral Researcher in Occupational Cancer Epidemiology for a fixed-term period of 3 years starting in January 2027 (or as agreed).

The Health Sciences unit provides a collaborative setting with multidisciplinary and multimethodological strengths in population health, supporting rigorous and impactful doctoral research.

Our doctoral programs in Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Public Health (IPPE), and Medicine offer a strong methodological and research environment for completing an ongoing doctoral project within established research groups at the Health Sciences Unit. The programs provide advanced training in key areas of population health, supporting high-quality publication-oriented research and researcher training.

Job description

The doctoral researcher will join the research project "The Nordic Occupational Exposome and Cancer: Decades of Change, Mixtures, and Inequalities" (NordExCan), led by Principal Investigator Dr. Subas Neupane. The project examines how occupational exposures change over working life and how these exposures, individually and in combination, are associated with cancer incidence, mortality, and inequalities in the Nordic countries. The research builds on the Nordic Occupational Cancer (NOCCA) cohort and Nordic job-expos