Assistant Professor/ Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics

Salary

Assistant Professor / Lecturer: €62,855 – €99,533 p.a. (7 points)

Assistant Lecturer: €40,682 – €69,887 p.a. (14 points)

The Role

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is seeking candidates with the potential to build on the research strengths of the Department in the areas of Geometric Analysis, Algebra, and Number Theory. We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Mathematics. The person appointed will have a proven record of teaching, research and publication, appropriate to career stage. They will be expected to make a strong contribution to the teaching programme of the Department and undertake teaching duties on the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes as well as the supervision of Master’s and PhD students.

The appointee will be expected to build a strong research profile, that supports the University’s research strategy including affiliating to the Research Institutes, where appropriate and working with colleagues on national and international research. The appointee will be expected to sustain and conduct research, engage in scholarship of quality and substance and generate publications of international standard.

Applications are desired from researchers with a PhD in Mathematics and a high degree of potential in areas related to any of the following:

• Differential Geometry
• Algebraic Topology
• Analysis on Metric Spaces
• Conformal Analysis
• Groups and Group Representations
• Combinatorics and Number Theory
• Diophantine approximation and Measure Theory
• Ring Theory

The post is expected to commence from September 2025.

The ideal candidate will have:

Essential

• A PhD in Mathematics;
• A broad and deep knowledge of Mathematics;
• A strong academic record in teaching and research;
• A record of scholarly work and publication of international quality, demonstrating potential to become a significant contributor in their field;
• Experience of, and a demonstrated commitment to, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, programme development and academic innovation;
• Experience supervising graduate research students;
• Experience of, and commitment to, working in an interdisciplinary setting;
• Good administrative, organisational, teamwork and communication skills.

For further details including full comprehensive job description please see reference number 031581 on the Maynooth University vacancies page, by clicking the 'Apply' button, above.

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