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        Postdoctoral Researcher 

                in the 

    Lancaster Centre for Forecasting



  Lancaster University Management School

    Department of Management Science

    www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/forecasting

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Salary:          £25,251 to £35,938 

Closing Date:    Monday 12 March 2012

Interview Date:  Monday 26 March 2012 

Reference:       A363

 

Applications are invited for a two-year post-doctoral position to commence early in 2012, funded by the Lanacster Research Centre for Forecasting.

 

You should have the potential to develop academic and applied research of international standard; research interest and expertise should include the areas of time series forecasting, and / or time series data mining, either with methods of statistics, econometrics, machine learning or computational intelligence (e.g. artificial Neural Networks, etc), preferably in the context of management science, operational research or operations management. You should have, or almost have, excellent Masters and PhD degrees in management, engineering or computer science (or in a related subject area), with initial publications in preparation for leading scholarly journals. Corporate experience from applied research and consultancy projects is particularly valued. You will also have excellent verbal/written communication skills, a strong quantitative background, and basic computer programming experience (in C#, Matlab, or R etc.).

 

You would be expected to work approximately two days per week for the forecasting centre under the supervision of Dr Sven F Crone and Prof Robert Fildes, and to engage in joint research with the team in the remainder. You will work with academic colleagues and students whilst developing their research agenda. In addition to all aspects of academic research you will support the Forecasting Centre by engaging in applied forecasting research projects with companies, liaising with external clients, providing support in executive education courses and supporting the above activities through marketing and administration.

 

If you are selected to go through to the next stage of recruitment you will be asked to provide a complete research proposal in the area of forecasting or data mining on time series data according to the guidelines provided online which can be found at: www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/departments/ManSci/Research/

 

Enquiries on the research topics should be directed to either: Professor Robert Fildes (Tel: +44 1524 593879) or Dr. Sven F. Crone, Directors, Lancaster Centre for Forecasting, Tel. +44 (0)1524 592991 - Email: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]

 

Apply Online

 

Further details:

Job Description http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Upload/vacancies/files/898/A262%20JD.pdf

Person Specification http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Upload/vacancies/files/898/A363%20PS.pdf

Further Info http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Upload/vacancies/files/898/A363%20Additional%20Info.pdf



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