UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

MASS SPEC ANALYTICAL (MSA), BRISTOL.

EPSRC CASE studentship.

Establishment of frameworks for the evaluation of evidence relating to 
traces of drugs

Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning, School 
of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh,

Mass Spec Analytical (MSA), Bristol.


	A PhD CASE studentship is available at the Joseph Bell Centre for 
Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning in the School of Mathematics in 
collaboration with Mass Spec Analytical (MSA), Filton, Bristol, 
(http://www.msaltd.co.uk) under the supervision of Professor Colin Aitken.

	Fees and stipend are available for UK nationals. The stipend will be 
the current EPSRC rates with an enhancement from the industrial partner 
and is expected to be about £16,000 in the first year. There is also a 
travel budget to enable attendance at conferences and for research visits.

	Further particulars, including more details of the project, are
available on the School of Mathematics website:

http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/local/jobs/vacancies/

	The successful candidate will be based in the School of
Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, with excellent library
and computing facilities and a flourishing postgraduate community.

	It is part of the condition of the award that the student spends
at least three months of the project working at MSA in Bristol. It
is expected this will be in three annual periods of one month
each. MSA will provide the cost of travel to and from Bristol and
of accommodation for this placement.

Qualifications:

	Applications are invited from graduates with a first-class Honours or 
Master's degree in a mathematics degree with a substantial statistics 
component or a statistics degree or from final-year undergraduate or 
Masters students on such a degree programme, or equivalent.

Vetting:  Applicants may be subject to UK security vetting.

Start date:

	This is open to negotiation but the latest possible
starting date is October 1st 2010.

	Application:

	Please submit a CV, the names and addresses of two
referees and a covering letter to Ms Gill Law, Graduate School
Secretary, School of Mathematics, King's Buildings, The University
of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ; [log in to unmask];
fax 0131 650 6553.  Electronic applications are acceptable.

Closing date:  November 30th 2009.

Enquiries are welcome and can be made to Professor Colin Aitken
([log in to unmask]).
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Professor Colin Aitken,
Professor of Forensic Statistics,
School of Mathematics, King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh,
Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ.

Tel:    0131 650 4877
E-mail:  [log in to unmask]
Fax :  0131 650 6553
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~cgga


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