Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Mathematical Finance

Location: Reuben College, University of Oxford, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QP

Contract type: Permanent upon completion of a successful review. The review is conducted during the first 5 years

The Mathematical Institute proposes to appoint an Associate Professor (or Professor) of Mathematical Finance from 1 September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will be appointed to a Fellowship by Special Election at Reuben College, under arrangements described in the attached job description. 

The University salary scale has a minimum point of £55,755 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 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 a high international standard in the field of Mathematical and Computational Finance and for teaching a range of topics in mathematics via lectures and classes. A complete list of duties and responsibilities is set out in the attached job description.  The appointee will hold a primary affiliation with the Mathematical and Computational Finance Research Group led by Professor Rama Cont and the Oxford-MAN Institute of Quantitative Finance (OMI) led by Professor Alvaro Cartea.

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 applied 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. 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.

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.

Informal enquiries regarding the application process should be directed to the Recruitment Administrator (email: recruitment@maths.ox.ac.uk), quoting vacancy reference 176258.

Please apply for this vacancy online by clicking on the ‘Apply’ button above.

Only applications received before 12.00 noon UK time on 24 January 2025 can be considered.

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