Research Fellow (Innovation Research Associate) (109443-0724)

Location: University of Warwick Campus, Coventry

Duration: Ending 01 September 2027

About the Role  

For informal enquiries, please contact  Andreas Kyprianou (Director of CAMaCS) at andreas.kyprianou@warwick.ac.uk.

We are looking for a talented and versatile mathematician and computer scientist to work as part of a team of interdisciplinary researchers at the new Centre for Applications of Mathematical and Computing Sciences (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/camacs) (CAMaCS) at Warwick.

This is a new type of postdoctoral role, called an “Innovation Research Associate”, with focus on technical breadth. As part of the role, you will be expected to work within interdisciplinary academic teams to:

• Work across different long-term and occasional short-term projects with diverse partnerships;
• Interface between academics in the Departments of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science and other partners in academia, business, government and industry;
• Learn about and implement new modelling techniques for interdisciplinary projects;
• Cultivate your own academic identity with a broad base of expertise;
• Demonstrate thereby leadership through the development of novel data-centric modelling within other disciplines;

Engage in collaborative grant capture and impact acceleration.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so. 

About You  

You will hold a PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline. Your application should include a research statement, CV and list of publications, along with a cover letter, identifying and evidencing your experience with as many of the following areas as possible, preferably at least two:

• Machine learning and/or other quantitative modelling in AI
• Statistical modelling
• Interdisciplinary mathematical modelling
• Numerical analysis and scientific computing

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade structure. Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure. 

CLOSING DATE: Sunday 04 August 2024 at 11.55 pm

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.

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