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Principal's Research Fellowships: 5 year prestigious appointments at Edinburgh Napier University
http://www.napier.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/fellowships
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- an initial contract period of five years with opportunities for outstanding candidates to progress to Associate Professor.
- Salary: £37,768 – £46,414. The University will also offer an attractive research support package.
- Application Deadline 1st July
As part of its 2020 strategic vision, Edinburgh Napier University has launched 5-year Principal’s Research Fellowships, aimed at postdoctoral researchers with an established research record and talent to be a future academic leader. Two appointments per year will be made over the next three years.
We are looking for applications from ambitious individuals with a committed research vision. Based in the heart of Scotland’s historic and culturally rich capital city, our Principal’s Research Fellows will have the opportunity and the support to become pioneers in their chosen field in a university with an exciting strategy, ambitious for its staff and students. The University is inviting applications for the appointment of two fellows across a range of disciplines spanning our six schools.
Within the Information Society Theme (http://www.napier.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-areas/information-society) we are specifically hoping to attract people to the ***Bio-Inspired/Optimisation *** group led by Professor Emma Hart
The Bio-Inspired Algorithms group within the Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems is a large and thriving group with interests in nature-inspired computing that include Evolutionary Computing, Hyper-Heuristics, Artificial Immune Systems and Swarm Intelligence. The group has an excellent international reputation: it will host the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature in Edinburgh in 2016, with Prof. Emma Hart and Prof. Ben Paechter as General Chairs. The group inaugurated the international EvoStar Conference in 1998 and has run the conference since then, overseeing its growth into 4 co-located conferences. Staff regularly chair tracks at GECCO and ALife. Prof. Hart and Prof. Paechter are Associate Editors of the Evolutionary Computation Journal (MIT Press). The group has a sustained record of attracting funding from both international (EU) and national funding bodies, including EPSRC and Leverhulme. We have an excellent record of encouraging collaborative working with other researchers both in the UK and worldwide, for example hosting visiting international PhD students and visiting researchers, and writing joint publications with external authors.
The group has a particular interest in application of nature-inspired techniques to practical optimisation where we have a track record of working with industry. Current projects include use of evolution in design, optimisation of cutting patterns in the Forestry Industry, scheduling in the Health Care sector, and vehicle routing, with a specific emphasis on reducing carbon emissions, (working in conjunction with Edinburgh Napier’s Transport Research Institute). However, we also conduct fundamental research with the goal of improving understanding of bio-inspired optimisation and learning algorithms, for example covering evolutionary robotics, evolution of societies and the hybridisation of machine-learning and optimisation.
Please contact Prof. Emma Hart if you have any questions or require further detail
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