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Centre for Transport Studies Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Imperial College London Research Associate Mobile Environmental Sensing System Across a Grid Environment (MESSAGE) Traffic makes a significant contribution to air pollution in inner cities. Governments devise policies and traffic management schemes to minimise the impact of air pollution. More detailed knowledge of how traffic-generated pollution behaves in the urban environment could greatly enhance these policies and schemes. Factors such as street and building design, vehicle braking and accelerating patterns, individual traveller decisions and local weather conditions affect the concentration of pollutants that individuals are exposed to as they move around. The MESSAGE project is jointly funded by the EPSRC and the Department for Transport. It will develop e-Science and grid technologies to enable data from a network of mobile sensors to be gathered and interpreted. The e-Science technologies developed will be generic enough for use in other applications of mobile sensor networks, for example, climate or weather mapping. The MESSAGE project is led by Imperial College London, and comprises a consortium of partners drawn from the Universities of Cambridge, Southampton, Newcastle and Leeds who will work closely with one another and with a number of major industrial partners and transport authorities. This post will be based in the Centre for Transport Studies (CTS) at Imperial College London and will have responsibility for the development of traffic and air quality modelling tools to support one of the major MESSAGE applications in London. This application will involve the deployment of a range of types of wireless-based air pollution sensors on buses and other vehicle fleets in London and the use of the data collected in this way to provide dynamic estimates of air quality and to improve the treatment of air quality management in urban traffic management and control systems. The successful applicant will work closely with other MESSAGE researchers based in CTS and elsewhere at Imperial (in the Departments of Computing, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Physics) and with the research teams in the other MESSAGE institutions. There will also be close collaboration with a number of industrial partners, including Transport for London. Applicants should be qualified to doctoral level in a relevant aspect of transport network and/or air quality modelling and be familiar with modern statistical computing techniques. Some familiarity with eScience technology would be desirable but is not essential. Salary in the range: £23,560-£30,790 p.a. This is a fixed term appointment for 32 months, with the possibility of extension. To apply, please email an application form (downloadable from http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment/research), an up to date CV with details of two academic referees and a brief personal statement to: Professor John Polak Centre for Transport Studies Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44(0)20-7594-6089 Fax: +44(0)20-7594-6102 Web: www.imperial.ac.uk/cts Potential applicants wishing to discuss either of these posts informally are encouraged to contact Professor Polak directly. Closing date: 7 November 2006 -- Prof. John Polak Head of Centre for Transport Studies Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ T: +44-(0)20-7594-6089 F: +44-(0)20-7594-6102 http://www.imperial.ac.uk/transport-studies