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https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=715516AT
An exciting opportunity is available to join a high profile multi-disciplinary research project which is helping to shape the future of Britain's infrastructure systems. The MISTRAL project is funded by a £5.3million Programme Grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). MISTRAL is led by Prof Jim Hall FREng at the University of Oxford, and follows on from the very successful ITRC programme (http://www.itrc.org.uk/). Its key aim is to develop and demonstrate a highly integrated analytics capability to inform strategic infrastructure decision making across scales, from local to global. The research will deal with energy, transport, digital communications, water, waste and flood defence systems at multiple scales, developing new methods for analysing their performance, risks and interdependencies. It will provide a virtual environment in which we will test strategies for long term investment in national infrastructure and understand how alternative strategies perform with respect to policy constraints such as reliability and security of supply, cost, carbon emissions, and adaptability to demographic and climate change.
The successful applicant will work on MISTRAL at the University of Southampton's Transportation Research Group (TRG) under the direction of Dr Simon Blainey and Prof John Preston. In this role you will make a key contribution to the development of national transport models as part of the MISTRAL project, working closely with researchers developing models of other infrastructure systems. You will be responsible for devising programming solutions for a range of modelling tasks, and for integrating these solutions with the overall MISTRAL modelling framework. You will also be expected to play a leading role in the dissemination of results from the project.
With a PhD (or equivalent) in a quantitative discipline, you will have substantial practical experience of computer modelling and will be comfortable in developing models using at least one programming language. You will be skilled in identifying effective solutions for representing and resolving complex systems in a software environment, and in communicating these solutions to stakeholders and other researchers. Applications will be considered from candidates who are working towards or nearing completion of a relevant PhD qualification.
For full details and to apply please visit this website: https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=715516AT
The closing date for applications is Friday 6 May 2016.
This is a two year fixed term post.
Salary: £28,982 to £29,847 per annum
Some further information on working as part of the ITRC consortium is available at http://www.itrc.org.uk/about-itrc/video-bites/. TRG is a multi-disciplinary group founded in 1967 and recognised worldwide as a leading University centre for research, teaching and knowledge transfer in transportation. The group is part of the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, and is based on the new Boldrewood Innovation Campus in Southampton. More details of TRG and its activities can be found here: www.trg.soton.ac.uk/
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