Assistant Professor in Mathematical & Theoretical Physics (MAT_03)

Working at Durham College  

A globally excellent centre of instructing and analysis excellence, a heat and pleasant place to work, a novel and historic setting – Durham is a college like no different.

As one of many UK’s main universities, Durham is an unbelievable place to outline your profession. The College is situated inside a fantastic historic metropolis, dwelling to a UNESCO World Heritage Website, and surrounded by beautiful countryside. Our gifted students and researchers from all over the world are tackling world points and making a distinction to individuals’s lives.  

We imagine that inspiring our individuals to do excellent issues at Durham permits Durham individuals to do excellent issues on the earth. Being part of Durham is about extra than simply the success of the College, it’s additionally about contributing to the success of the town, county and neighborhood.

Our College Technique is constructed on three pillars of analysis, training and wider pupil expertise, but in addition on our eager sense of neighborhood and of inspiring others to realize their potential. 

Our Objective and Values

We would like our College to be a spot the place individuals could be free to be themselves, it doesn’t matter what their id or background. Collectively, we have fun distinction, worth each other and are every chargeable for creating an inclusive neighborhood that’s respectful and honest for all.

Discover out extra about the advantages of working on the College and what it’s prefer to reside and work within the Durham space on our Why Durham? info web page.   

The Division 

The Division is among the UK’s main arithmetic departments, with an impressive fame in analysis, instructing, and pupil employability. It has an lively programme of internationally acknowledged analysis in Pure Arithmetic, Utilized Arithmetic (together with Utilized and Computational Arithmetic in addition to Mathematical and Theoretical Particle Physics), and Statistics and Likelihood. The analysis tradition is vibrant, with many guests, seminars, worldwide conferences and workshops. We purpose to supply a supportive and pleasant surroundings with a powerful sense of neighborhood. The Division, which presently has greater than 110 everlasting members of employees, has just lately grown considerably. In 2021 we moved to a newly constructed constructing, shared with Pc Science, with the aim of fostering constructive interdisciplinary exchanges.

The Division has a proud custom of delivering excellence in its undergraduate programmes via research-led and small group instructing. Attracting among the greatest college students within the nation (4th highest common UCAS entry tariff amongst universities in England), the Division was ranked eleventh within the UK within the Full College Information 2024.

The Division holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award. Athena SWAN is a nationwide initiative that recognises the development of gender equality, illustration, development and success for all in academia. The Division additionally helps the London Mathematical Society Good Apply Scheme, whose purpose is to assist arithmetic departments to embed equal alternatives for girls inside their working practices.

For extra info, please go to our web site at https://www.dur.ac.uk/mathematical.sciences/.

The Division of Mathematical Sciences at Durham College seeks to nominate one gifted particular person to the function of Assistant Professor.  We welcome purposes from distinctive candidates with analysis and instructing pursuits in mathematical and theoretical particle physics, notably in area concept, string concept and theoretical cosmology. 

This submit provides an thrilling alternative to make a serious contribution to the event of internationally wonderful analysis and instructing whereas permitting you unrivalled alternatives to progress and embed your profession in an thrilling and progressive establishment. For extra info, please go to our Division pages at https://www.dur.ac.uk/mathematical.sciences/

Assistant Professors at Durham 

Assistant Professors on the Schooling and Analysis observe are inspired to give attention to analysis and instructing however are additionally anticipated to have interaction in wider citizenship to reinforce their very own improvement, assist their division and self-discipline, and contribute to the broader pupil expertise. 

Educational colleagues are supported to publish wonderful analysis of their space of curiosity with a give attention to prime quality outputs (together with monographs and journal articles), fairly than amount. We purpose to assist your analysis wants, together with sensible assist akin to sources to attend conferences and to fund analysis actions, in addition to a beneficiant analysis depart coverage and a chosen mentor.  

Durham College can also be dedicated to making sure excellent instructing high quality, stimulating studying environments, and revolutionary curricula for all our college students. You’ll be supported to develop your instructing experience and expertise. 

We’re assured that our recruitment course of permits us to draw and choose the very best expertise to Durham. We, due to this fact, supply a lowered probation interval of 1 yr for our Assistant Professors and thereafter, topic to passable efficiency, your place might be confirmed as everlasting. 

Candidates should exhibit prime quality analysis within the area of Theoretical Particle Physics, with the flexibility to show our college students to an distinctive customary and to completely interact within the companies, citizenship and values of the College. 

We try to supply a working and instructing surroundings that’s inclusive and welcoming and the place everyone seems to be handled pretty with dignity and respect. Candidates might be anticipated to exhibit these key ideas as a part of the evaluation course of. 

Key tasks: 

• To pursue analysis that is top of the range when it comes to originality, significance and rigour.  
• To develop clear plans for the pursuit of nationwide and worldwide funding alternatives to assist analysis and end-user engagement. 
• To play a job in related instructing and analysis supervision, and contribute to ongoing curriculum improvement. 
• Contribute to enhancing the standard of the analysis surroundings within the Division, the broader College and past via collaborative analysis exercise. 
• Display a willingness to contribute to the executive work, citizenship and values of the Division.  
• To ship lectures, seminars and tutorials at undergraduate and taught postgraduate ranges, in addition to participating in associated exercise akin to evaluation.
• To completely interact in and improve the values of the Division.
• To contribute to attracting and supervising analysis college students, and to reinforce the Division’s dedication to its vibrant and inclusive postgraduate tradition.  
• Perform different duties as specified by the Head of Division. 

Durham College is dedicated to equality, range and inclusion 

Equality, range, and inclusion (EDI) are a key element of the College’s Technique and a central a part of the whole lot we do.  We additionally reside by our Objective and Values  and our Workers Code of Conduct.   At Durham we actively work in direction of offering an surroundings the place our employees and college students can research, work and reside in a neighborhood which is supportive and inclusive. It’s vital to us that every one colleagues undertake actions which are aligned to each our values and dedication to EDI. 

We welcome and encourage purposes from those that are presently under-represented in our work pressure, together with individuals with disabilities and from racially minoritised ethnic teams.

If in case you have taken a profession break or durations of depart which will have impacted on the quantity and recency of your analysis outputs and different actions, akin to maternity, adoption or parental depart, you might want to disclose this in your utility. The choice committee will take this into consideration when evaluating your utility.

The College has been awarded the Incapacity Assured Employer standing. In case you are a candidate with a incapacity, we’re dedicated to making sure honest therapy all through the recruitment course of. We are going to make changes to assist the interview course of wherever it’s cheap to take action and, the place profitable, cheap changes might be made to assist individuals inside their function. 

Individual Specification 

Candidates could have accomplished their PhD (or be near completion) and may define their expertise, expertise and achievements thus far, which exhibit that they meet all essential standards. 

Analysis

Candidates will need to have the capability for and be progressing in direction of the impartial improvement of internationally wonderful analysis that produces high-quality outcomes, together with some work that’s recognised as world-class or that has world-class potential.   

Important Analysis Standards

Schooling 

Candidates should exhibit the event and supply of high-quality instructing that contributes to offering a supportive and enabling studying surroundings and curricula which encourage college students to realize their potential.

Important Schooling Standards 

Providers, Citizenship and Values

Lively engagement in administrative and citizenship necessities and to fostering a respectful surroundings, together with a demonstrable dedication to equality, range, and inclusion.

Important Providers, Citizenship and Values Standards

Fascinating Standards 

The fascinating standards for this submit (for which candidates ought to present proof of some if not all standards) are: 

Contact Data 

Division contact for academic-related enquiries 

Iñaki García Etxebarria ([email protected])

Contact info for technical difficulties when submitting your utility 

For those who encounter technical difficulties when utilizing the net utility kind, we want you ship enquiries by e mail.  Please ship your identify together with a transient description of the issue you’re experiencing to [email protected]  

Alternatively, you might name 0191 334 6801 from the UK, or +44 191 334 6801 from outdoors the UK. This quantity operates through the hours of 09.00 and 17.00 Monday to Friday, UK time.  We are going to usually reply inside one working day (Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays).  

College contact for common queries in regards to the recruitment course of 

The best way to Apply  

We want to obtain purposes on-line.    

Please be aware that in submitting your utility, we might be processing your information.  We might ask you to think about the related College Privateness Assertion https://www.dur.ac.uk/ig/dp/privateness/pnjobapplicants/  which gives info on the collation, storing and use of knowledge.  

What to Submit 

All candidates are requested to submit: 

• A CV  
• A masking letter which particulars your expertise, strengths and potential within the necessities set out above. 
• Private analysis plan. 
• Two of your most important items of written work.  The place attainable your written work ought to have been printed or submitted since 2018, nevertheless work previous to 2018 could also be submitted the place candidates have had profession breaks. 
• An EDI & values assertion – (of not more than 500 phrases) which outlines work which you could have been concerned through which demonstrates your dedication to EDI and our values. I.e. Involvement in equality, range, and inclusion actions akin to mentoring, volunteering, or attending conferences.

The place attainable we request that you simply present accessible net hyperlinks to your publications, which the hiring Division will use to entry your work. The applying kind comprises fields through which to enter every of the net hyperlinks.

Please be aware we’re unable to entry publications behind a paywall.  

Within the occasion you might be unable to supply accessible hyperlinks to on-line internet hosting of your work, publications must be uploaded as PDFs as a part of your utility in our recruitment system.

Please be certain that your PDFs are not bigger than 5mb. Your work could also be learn by colleagues from throughout the Division and evaluated towards the present REF standards. 

All utility paperwork must be uploaded together with your identify and doc sort as PDF recordsdata. 

We are going to notify you on the standing of your utility at numerous factors all through the choice course of, by way of automated emails from our e-recruitment system.  Please verify your spam/junk folder periodically to make sure you obtain all emails.  

Referees 

You need to present 3 tutorial referees and they need to not (if attainable) embody your PhD supervisor(s).  The bulk must be from a college aside from your individual.

References might be requested for candidates who’ve been shortlisted and might be made out there to the panel through the interview course of. 

As a part of your utility, you may be requested whether or not you give your consent to your tutorial references being sought do you have to be invited to attend an interview. We are going to solely request references the place permission has been granted.  

Subsequent Steps 

All purposes might be thought-about; our standard apply is for colleagues throughout the Division to learn the submitted work of long-listed candidates.   

Brief-listed candidates might be invited to the College, both just about or in-person and could have the chance to satisfy key members of the Division.  The evaluation for the submit will usually embody a presentation to employees and college students within the Division adopted by an interview and we anticipate that the assessments and interviews will happen over two days in or across the third week of April. 

In case you are unable to attend on the date provided, it will not be attainable to give you an interview on an alternate date. 

Applicant Steerage  

For additional steering in your utility please see HERE