Opportunities

Prospective Students

Two Ph.D. and several MS students positions are available with our lab through Health Data Science program at the Milken Institute of Public Health.

If you are interested in joining our lab, please reach out to rahnavard@gwu.edu with the subject header “Prospective Student [MS/PHD]”, depending on what program you are interested in. Please keep your email length to 1-2 paragraphs, and consider reading over our recent publications and discussing what kind of work you find interesting.

Two summer Interns (extendable to one year) are available in our lab: Please send an email with your CV and cover letter to rahnavard@gwu.edu if interested. (open for summer 2024).

A post-doctoral scientist position in Omics Data Science is available with our lab (CLOSED)

A post-doctoral scientist position in Computational Biology is available with our lab. This position focuses on method development for infectious diseases and particularly COVID-19. (CLOSED)

A Research Scientist position jointly sponsored by the GW Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine (the laboratory of Dr. Katherine Chiappinelli) and the Computational Biology Institute/Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, in Washington, DC (the Rahnavard lab and the Crandall lab). (CLOSED)

Multiple research assistant positions (we extended it to 4 positions) are available to GW students to join our lab: (CLOSED)

We are looking for postdocs, graduate, and undergraduate level students to join our team. Please contact rahnavard@gwu.edu if you are interested. Please request to arrange a visit or meeting if you are already at the GW!

path2max: promoting diversity in biosciences

We appreciate the diversity of our team members, which brings different perspectives and shapes ideas into novel research directions. We are researchers from various races, cultures, and scientific expertise such as biology, computer science, and hospital practitioners, and each discipline has brought strength to our team. We are actively recruiting, promoting, and engaging under-represented scientists, as it brought novel perspectives and encouraged diverse representation on our research team at GW. (Learn More)