Postdoctoral researcher - project "A world male fertility database"

The Centre for Demographic Research of the UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium – www.uclouvain.be/demo) recruits a Postdoctoral researcher to work on a FNRS-funded project “A world male fertility database”. The project aims at creating a database on male fertility around the world and over time. The database will use existing data from surveys, censuses, and CRVS to compute indicators of male fertility (e.g. age-specific fertility rates, age at first birth, childlessness) in as many countries as possible and over long periods of time (past and future). The data will be made available with interactive data visualisation tools (e.g. Shiny application), and will be used for comparative research on male fertility.

The postdoctoral researcher will work in collaboration with the principal investigator. He/she will participate in the following activities:

• Contribution to an inventory of data sources on male fertility.
• Use of existing and new demographic methods to measure male fertility indicators from various data sources.
• Development and documentation of the database.
• Contacts with researchers and data providers.
• Contribution to methodological papers.
• Development of comparative research on male fertility, participation in conferences and publication of papers.

Profile

• PhD in demography or related discipline.
• Very good knowledge of demographic and statistical methods for the analysis of fertility data, including indirect methods.
• Interest in male fertility research.
• Very good knowledge of STATA and/or R. Experience in developing R packages or Stata commands is an asset.
• Very good writing skills, and experience in publishing scientific papers.
• Very good knowledge of English.

Conditions

• Start date: September 2023, with some flexibility.
• Duration: 2 years, possible extension of 1 year depending on availability of funds.
• Net monthly stipend of 2,900 €.
• Candidates should have obtained their PhD within the last four years or will obtain it within the next few months.
• Applicants should not have lived in Belgium for more than 12 months in the last three years.
• The recruited researcher will be based in Belgium, working in the Centre for Demographic Research in Louvain-la-Neuve.