Research Assistant / Associate

This post is full-time (35 hrs. per week), with funding for up to 36 months in the first instance.

The University of Glasgow is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant/Associate within the School of Computing Science.

The University of Glasgow is in a consortium of seven universities, supporting the formation of a new national research centre funded by a significant UKRI and stakeholder co-investment for a 5-year and £45M programme of challenge-led research into digital twinning for transport decarbonisation. The research will build on highly successful consultation which explored transport decarbonisation and mode integration. This new national research hub will be responsible for delivering new knowledge, technical capabilities and policy advisement relating to UK digital twinning (for transport decarbonisation) priorities. This highly ambitious programme of research is supported by over 65 industrial, research and stakeholder organisations. The consortium behind this national hub represents a highly interdisciplinary network of experts, and includes a significant cohort of early career researchers, research associates and PhD students, who will work closely together in a multi-disciplinary collaborative environment to deliver this ground-breaking research.

The successful candidate will be working under the direct supervision of Prof. Dimitrios Pezaros (Computing Science) within this multidisciplinary national research hub jointly led by Prof. David Flynn, and make leading contributions to the cybersecurity and resilience of federated (networked) digital twins.

You will conduct cutting-edge research in cyber-physical security, resilience and connectivity of federated Digital Twin systems, you will devise closed-loop strategies for detection and mitigation of adversarial events, and active and passive network monitoring and asset discovery approaches. Your work will harness latest advances in network programmability and virtualisation to devise reconfigurable and resilient network architectures for connecting distributed asset networks.

The postholder will also be expected to contribute to the formulation and submission of research publications and research proposals as well as help manage and direct this complex and challenging project as opportunities allow.

For informal enquiries or further information about the project, please contact Professor Dimitrios Pezaros,
Dimitrios.Pezaros@glasgow.ac.uk 

The University of Glasgow has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.  If you require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK, you will be required to meet the eligibility requirements of the visa route to be assigned a Certificate of Sponsorship.

Please note that this post may be eligible to be sponsored under the Skilled Worker visa route if tradeable points can be used under the Skilled Worker visa rules. For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Closing date:  12 July 2024

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