Opportunities in the Mordecai Lab

Research Scientist in Healthy Planet Healthy People Initiative

We are hiring a Research Scientist (LSRP3) to work with faculty leadership to build a research program for the Healthy Planet Healthy People Initiative (HP2) that connects knowledge and action, scaling solutions, and engaging many stakeholders. The position will be based on Stanford campus in the Woods Institute for the Environment within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and will be supervised by Dr. Erin Mordecai (Biology Department) and Dr. Giulio De Leo (Oceans and ESS Departments), both Senior Fellows with the Woods Institute.

Responsibilities will include:

● Leading multidisciplinary teams across different faculties or schools, and external research partners.

● Designing research approaches for the entire project, including background research, experimental design and execution, problem solving, and writing up for publication.

● Deploying community- and partner-engaged approaches to manage collaborations and produce co-created research outcomes.

● Developing new protocols; testing and evaluating a variety of approaches.

● Participating in creating new research proposals, and preparing for submission for funding and grants.

● Preparing periodic progress reports or written reports on all phases of the research project.

● Contributing original ideas of major methodologies that alter the course of the investigation or developing innovative solution(s) to complex research problems.

● Performing ongoing literature review to remain current with new procedures and related research; proceeding without consultation with principal investigator to implement new techniques into research projects.

For more information and to apply, see this site: Research Scientist, Healthy Planet Healthy People Initiative.

Prospective Graduate Students

If you are interested in discussing PhD opportunities in my lab, please fill out this form. I plan to contact prospective students in November 2022 to discuss opportunities. I accept PhD students through the Biology Department (Eco-Evo track), the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER), and the PhD program in Epidemiology. Check out my blog post on how to apply for grad school for (hopefully) helpful explanation and tips! Also available en Español.

Contact Erin Mordecai for information about conducting research in the lab as an undergraduate, graduate student, or postdoc.

Prospective postdocs: Please send a CV and brief statement of interests and background to Erin Mordecai: emordeca@stanford.edu.

Stanford undergrads: We have positions available to work in the lab and on mathematical modeling projects. Please apply through the Biology Department’s B-SURP summer internship program or through the Major Grants program.

High school summer interns: We are no longer accepting unpaid summer interns. We accept interns through Stanford's RISE program.