A cooperation agreement with the largest Brazilian funding agency CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) has been in place since 2010. This was negotiated by the Brazil Centre in order to link the University of Münster (UM) institutionally not only with universities but also with funding agencies in Brazil.
Within the framework of this cooperation, the so-called Brazil Chair ("Cátedra Brasil") was established at UM. This guest chair for Brazilian academics is financed by CAPES and covers a period of six to 24 months. There are more than ten such guest chairs worldwide, including at the universities of Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, Sorbonne, Bologna, Coimbra as well as Bonn and Tübingen. This guest professorship is linked to the Brazil Centre and is open to all disciplines. Interested faculties can apply in an internal UM call for applications organized by the Brazil Centre.
The overall goal of the Brazil Chair is to intensify cooperation between researchers from the University of Münster and Brazilian universities, as well as to build and expand scientific Networks. In addition, the Brazil Chair is intended to create greater visibility for the achievements of outstanding Brazilian academics at the UM and in Germany as a whole.
As part of the call for applications No.29/2023, the second Brazil Chair at the University of Münster is now to be filled:
Visiting professorship starting between September and November 2025:
Topic: "Modelling Infection Disease Dynamics for Epidemiologic Management."
Possible host institutes are among others:
Institute of Information Systems - Prof. Dr. Bernd Hellingrath
Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine - Prof. Dr. André Karch
Application deadline: from 1 August 2024 until 31 October 2024 at 5 pm (BRT)/ 9 pm (CET).
Start of activities: Between September and November 2025.
More about the topic:
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how important the management of epidemics is, and its importance will continue to grow in the future. The modeling of infectious diseases is an essential key to epidemiological management. The advancement of theoretical methods for modeling infectious diseases through data-driven modeling and machine learning should enable more accurate quantitative predictions and facilitate the extraction of actionable insights from large data sets. To enable more realistic models of disease dynamics, the determinants of individual human and animal behavior and the impact on the collective action of societies must also be understood and described. Finally, there is a need to investigate how decision-makers (e.g. public health authorities) can be provided with the right information (e.g. the estimated effectiveness of school closures) at the right time based on the epidemiological and societal models developed. Research on one or more of these topics is the subject of this call.
The current call for proposals provides funding for two CAPES Brazil Chairs with a 18-month visiting professorship at the UM each. The selected researchers will be able to indicate one postdoctoral researcher and one doctoral student for a 6-12 month research stay.
You can find the news on CAPES Brazil Chair call in our "Funding opportunities" section.
