Postdoctoral Research Associate

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cryptography

Durham University

Durham University is one of the world's top universities with strengths across the Arts and Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences.

The Department of Computer Science at Durham has an outstanding reputation for excellence in teaching, research and employability of our students. The department is particularly well-known for its strong standing in theoretical computer science.

The PDRA will join the Network Engineering Science and Theory in Durham (NESTiD) group, which is a new research group (since Jan 2021) in the Computer Science department at Durham University. NESTiD spans a wide area of research underpinning the fundamental theory, practical systems and applications of networks and distributed computing. The groups research interest include Network Design and Algorithms, Distributed and Parallel Computing and Algorithms, Networked Systems and Applications, Security and Resilience, Network Science, Dynamism and Processes on Networks, Mathematical theory underpinning Networks and Communication, Social Network design and Human interaction, Cloud, Edge, Fog and Wireless Networks.

ACiD, Algorithms and Complexity in Durham, is a world-leading research group with research programmes in computational complexity, proof complexity, descriptive complexity, graph theory, exact algorithms, randomised algorithms, approximation algorithms, parameterized algorithms, finite model theory, constraint satisfaction, interconnection networks, universal algebra and mathematical logic. ACiD and NESTiD share many members and there are lots of interactions between the two groups.

The Role

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cryptography with a particular emphasis on provable security for symmetric designs to work on the EPSRC research project Untargeted Attacks in (Password-based) Cryptography.

This post is fixed term for 2 years. The funding is available from 01/02/22 for this fixed period only; the project is time limited and will end on 31/12/23.

The post-holder is employed to work on research/a research project which will be led by another colleague. Whilst this means that the post-holder will not be carrying out independent research in his/her own right, the expectation is that they will contribute to the advancement of the project, through the development of their own research ideas/adaptation and development of research protocols.

All applicants are asked to submit:

* A CV, containing your publications and contact details for two referees. * Covering letter which details your experience, strengths and potential in the requirements set out above * One or two pieces of work (paper or thesis) to illustrate skill set.

Next Steps

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview and assessment in January 2022.