Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Employer
- Durham University
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Salary
- Salary Commensurate with experience
- Date posted
- May 23, 2022
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Science, Technology & Mathematics, Mathematics
- Employment Level
- Post-Doc
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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The Department
The Department is one of the UK's
best Mathematics departments, with an outstanding reputation in
research, teaching, and student employability. Ranked 7th in terms
of grade point average intensity in the Research Excellence
Framework 2014, it has an active programme of internationally
recognised research in Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics
(including Applied and Computational Mathematics as well as
Mathematical and Theoretical Particle Physics), and Statistics and
Probability. The research culture is vibrant, with many visitors,
seminars, international conferences and workshops. We aim to
provide a supportive and friendly environment with a strong sense
of community. The Department, which currently has 100 permanent
members of staff, has recently grown significantly. In 2021, we
moved to a newly constructed building, which we share with Computer
Science, with the goal of fostering constructive interdisciplinary
exchanges. Both the Department and the University run High
Performance Computing services.
The Statistics Group within the
Department of Mathematical Sciences has 23 academic staff, plus
postdoctoral researchers and PhD students. Research spans a wide
range. Current interests include: Bayesian statistics; modelling of
structure, geometry, and shape; statistical machine learning;
computational statistics; high-dimensional statistics;
nonparametric statistics; foundations of statistics and decision
theory; applied statistics, with specific attention to large-scale
applications in a wide variety of contexts.
There are many active collaborations
with other Durham University departments and research institutes,
including the newly founded Institute for Data Science, as well as
with companies and governmental bodies. The Department operates a
Statistics and Mathematics Consultancy Unit, which provides a focus
for external liaison with outside and commercial organisations.
Clients include local companies, multi-nationals and national and
international governmental organisations. The Group provided 6
impact case studies for REF 2014.
The Department holds an Athena SWAN
Bronze award. Athena SWAN is a national initiative that recognises
the advancement of gender equality, representation, progression and
success for all in academia. The Department also supports the
London Mathematical Society Good Practice Scheme, whose aim is to
support mathematics departments to embed equal opportunities for
women within their working practices.
The Role
The Department of Mathematical
Sciences invites applications for a one-year full-time Postdoctoral
Research Associate position beginning in October 2022 or
earlier.
The successful candidate will work
on EPSRC New Horizons project 'A New Foundation for Statistical
Shape Analysis' with PI Professor Ian Jermyn at Durham and Co-I
Professor Karthik Bharath at University of Nottingham, as well as
international Visiting Researchers. Candidates with a strong track
record in statistical shape analysis, geometric computation,
computer vision, or related areas are encouraged to apply.
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