Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Pure Mathematics (with a preference for areas relating to Geometry)

The Mathematical Institute proposes to appoint an Associate Professor (or Professor) of Pure Mathematics (with a preference for areas relating to Geometry) from 1 September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will be appointed to a Tutorial Fellowship at St Peter’s College, under arrangements described in the attached job description. 

The combined University and College salary scale has a minimum point of £55,755 per annum. In addition, the Colleges pay substantial additional benefits including a housing allowance of £11,635 per annum. An allowance of £3,155 per annum would be payable upon award of Full Professor title.

The Associate Professor will join a thriving research community of pure mathematicians at Oxford, at the world-leading Mathematical Institute. They will play a leading role in helping to build further collaborations across the global research community, in addition to engaging with outreach activities to support the department in achieving its strategic aim to improve the diversity of its undergraduate and postgraduate student body, and in particular its gender diversity. They will be responsible for carrying out, disseminating the results of, obtaining funding for, and supervising research at high international standards in the field of pure mathematics, with a preference for areas relating to Geometry and for teaching a range of topics in mathematics via lectures, classes and tutorials. A complete list of duties and responsibilities is set out in the attached job description.

The successful candidate will have a PhD in mathematics or a closely related subject, and will be committed to improving diversity within the discipline. They will demonstrate the ability and/or potential to carry out research at a high international level in pure mathematics and to teach effectively across a range of topics in mathematics.

We proudly hold a departmental Athena SWAN Silver Award and an institutional Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, which guide our progress towards advancing racial and gender equality. As part of our strategic aim to improve staff equality and diversity, we would particularly welcome applications from women and BME candidates, who are currently under-represented in positions of this type within the department.

Activities involving the promotion of diversity in mathematics will be taken into account when balancing overall workload. Departmental duties will be reduced in the first year of the appointment.

Our family-friendly policies include flexible working, hybrid working, and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive interview process and will reimburse up to £250 towards any additional care costs (for a dependent child or adult) incurred as a result of attending an interview for this position, which may not be applicable if the interviews are held remotely.

Informal enquiries regarding the application process should be directed to the Recruitment Administrator (email: recruitment@maths.ox.ac.uk), quoting vacancy reference  173841.

To apply for this vacancy and for further information, including a job description and selection criteria, please click on the apply button above.

Only applications received before 12.00 noon UK time on Monday 2 December can be considered.

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