Professor of Uncertainty Quantification

Closing Date Monday, 9th December 2013

School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham

Salary will be within the professorial range, minimum £56,467 per 
annum depending on skills and experience. 

Applications are invited from outstanding candidates for the 
above post, which lies at the interface of Statistics and Applied Mathematics.  
The successful candidate will be expected to contribute strongly to 
maintaining and enhancing the School’s high standards in research and teaching.

The School of Mathematical Sciences is making a major initiative in 
Uncertainty Quantification that will ultimately bring together extensive 
activity across the University into a Centre of Excellence. The Unit of Assessments 
for Applied Mathematics and Statistics were ranked 5th and 6th nationally 
in terms of Research Power and GPA respectively in the 2008 RAE. The 
successful candidate will be expected to contribute to maintaining and 
enhancing our research record, and to pursue and encourage interdisciplinary 
research across the research groups in the School of Mathematical Sciences, notably 
in Statistics and Probability, Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Scientific Computing, and 
Mathematical Medicine and Biology, and more widely in the University, in the 
Faculties of Engineering, Science and Social Sciences.  In recognition of its 
commitment to promoting women in science, The University of Nottingham is 
one of four universities to hold a Silver Athena SWAN Award.

Candidates should hold a PhD (or equivalent) in statistics, mathematics or a 
related subject and have a commitment to high-quality teaching.

This post is available from 1 January 2014 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor I L Dryden, tel: +44(0)115 846 7412, 
or email: [log in to unmask]  Please note that applications sent directly 
to this email address will not be accepted. Information about the School 
is available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mathematics/index.aspx

Further details:  http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Jobs/CurrentVacancies/ref/JK14380

This post will remain open until filled - review of applications 9 December 2013

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