Professor/Associate Professor in Autonomous Systems

Salary details: Grade 10 - Competitive (Professor) / Grade 9 - £58,596 to £65,815 per annum (Associate Professor)

Hours per week: 37.5

About the role

The University of Leicester is one of the top 200 universities in the world, as well as the Daily Mail University of the Year 2025 and twice shortlisted for University of the Year (THE Awards 2024 and The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025).

Our ambitious staff and students work in cooperation to deliver research, teaching and learning of the highest quality. The School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences provides a rich and culturally diverse environment where both students and staff can thrive in a demanding yet cooperative and friendly atmosphere.

We are looking for a candidate in the area of Autonomous Systems and bioinspired approaches to autonomous systems, who will join the “Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS)” group led by Prof. Shigang Yue. The group has several staff interested in robotics and autonomous systems and works closely with partners such as Space Park Leicester and the Bioengineering group in the School of Engineering (with whom they share lab space). We welcome applicants in all areas of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, but applicants in Autonomous Systems and Robotics for Extreme Environments (e.g. Space) and Bioinspired Autonomous Systems for Robots, UAVs, and drones are particularly welcome.

The School has research links with Space Park Leicester, the College of Life Sciences (including the Leicester Institute for Precision Health and the Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre), and Institute for Environmental Futures at the University of Leicester and aims to strengthen and deepen these research links. The School is a founding member of the College of Science and Engineering’s Centre for AI, Data Analytics and Modelling (AIDAM), and has ambitions to lead a future UoL research institute in Data Science. The candidate should be able to shape and strengthen these aims of the School.

This role involves fostering growth in research and teaching within their areas of expertise, as well as positively contributing to the development and support of the School, College, and University.

About you

This opportunity is available at either Professor or Associate Professor level depending on your experience, knowledge and research outputs - please indicate in your application which position you are most interested in.

To be successful in the role of Associate Professor, you will hold a PhD in a relevant subject area and evidence of an emergent track record of sustained achievement in internationally leading research, as well as an emergent record of excellence in research and enterprise leadership.

To be successful in the role of Professor, in addition to the above, you will already have an established track record of sustained achievement in internationally leading research in terms of originality, significance and rigour, that are consistent with the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences.

For more information on the role and its responsibilities, please refer to both Job Summary Forms.

Additional information

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Professor Shigang Yue (head of the TAS group, sy237@leicester.ac.uk), Professor Ruslan Davidchack (deputy Head of School, rld8@leicester.ac.uk), or Professor Rajeev Raman (Director of Computing Research, rr29@leicester.ac.uk).

We anticipate that interviews will take place during w/c 21 January 2025 on Main Campus.

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