Assistant Professor in Statistics

Job title:

Assistant Professor in Statistics

Firm

Heriot-Watt College

Job description

Job Description:Wage: Grade 8 (£45,585-£54,395)Contract: Full-time (35 hours every week)Detailed DescriptionThe Division of Actuarial Arithmetic and Statistics at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, is in search of to reinforce and broaden its strengths in analysis and instructing in statistics by appointing an Assistant Professor in Statistics.Candidates are invited from any space of the statistical sciences. These working in Bayesian statistics, utilized statistics, statistical studying, actuarial statistics or epidemiology are significantly welcome to use. We’re significantly all for candidates who would work with the College’s multi-disciplinary International Analysis Institutes within the areas of local weather change and sustainability, and healthcare.Because the profitable candidate, you’ll lead, perform and publish internationally wonderful analysis in your discipline. You should have a powerful monitor report of analysis in statistics or statistical information science which incorporates fields equivalent to utilized statistics, Bayesian statistics, statistical studying, actuarial statistics, epidemiology, computational statistics and statistical methodology.You’ll both be established or have the potential to ascertain your self as a global analysis chief, with sturdy postdoctoral analysis expertise and the ambition to construct a world-class educational group.You should have the related expertise to have interaction and innovate in our specialised statistical information science, actuarial and monetary instructing programmes.The College strongly encourages and helps the technology of business influence from analysis, and we welcome candidates with expertise of statistical work with industrial companions or working with the actuarial/insurance coverage/monetary business.Key Duties and DutiesThe post-holder can be required to:

• Lead, perform and publish internationally wonderful analysis in statistics, statistical information science, or a associated discipline;
• Apply for analysis funding by means of both the submission of high-quality grant proposals or funding from business, with the aim of constructing a analysis group;
• Undertake information alternate actions to advertise and disseminate your analysis;
• Perform such administrative and recruitment actions as could also be required to attain these goals;
• Develop and ship revolutionary instructing in statistics and associated fields at undergraduate and postgraduate stage;
• Be accountable to the Head of Division for performing the actions listed above in a means that may keep and improve the College’s fame for excellence.

The profitable candidatewill be primarily based at our Edinburgh campus within the UK. We encourage functions from under-represented teams. We welcome requests for versatile working preparations and usually accommodate them.Training, {Qualifications} and ExpertiseBecause the profitable candidate, you’ll lead, perform and publish internationally wonderful analysis in your discipline. You should have a powerful monitor report of analysis in statistics – which can additionally embrace actuarial information science, monetary danger and local weather change danger – as demonstrated by means of publications, citations, exterior invites and analysis funding. You may be established as a global analysis chief, with the ambition to construct a world-class educational group and have the expertise or potential to oversee PhD college students and post-doctoral researchers.You should have the related expertise to have interaction and innovate in our specialised statistical information science, actuarial and monetary diploma programmes. You should have the drive and dedication to contribute to the growth of our profitable postgraduate programmes.Important Standards

• PhD in statistics, or a associated discipline.
• Monitor-record of internationally-leading analysis with internationally wonderful publications.
• Expertise to show a variety of lecture programs within the Division, in addition to supervise MSc dissertations.
• Glorious interpersonal and teamwork expertise.
• Potential, ambition and plans to acquire analysis funding.
• Capacity to oversee efficiently PhD college students.

Fascinating Standards

• Monitor report of acquiring analysis funding.
• Monitor report of profitable supervision of PhD college students and/or post-doctoral researchers.
• Expertise of statistical work with industrial companions.
• Potential to offer management within the growth and implementation of a analysis technique inside the Division of Actuarial Arithmetic and Statistics.
• Potential to offer management within the planning, organisation and growth of studying and instructing actions within the Division.

About our groupThe Division of Actuarial Arithmetic and Statistics has a heat, supportive atmosphere with employees from everywhere in the world. The Division is internationally famend in statistics and statistical information science, utilized likelihood, actuarial science and monetary danger, by means of its world-leading analysis actions. As a part of the Maxwell Institute, we’re ranked third within the UK for the excellence and breadth of our analysis, within the 2021 UK authorities’s 5-yearly evaluation of college analysis.The Division is seeking to additional strengthen its statistics group, to assist its ambitions to reinforce and broaden its statistics experience. Our statisticians work in numerous fields, such Bayesian statistics, utilized statistics, statistical studying, actuarial statistics and epidemiology. We’ve got shut ties and collaborations with researchers on the College of Arithmetic on the College of Edinburgh, by means of the Maxwell Institute, beneath the “Knowledge and selections” analysis theme.In step with this, the Division is in search of to additional its analysis contributions to the College’s International Analysis Institutes (GRIs), significantly the 2 GRIs regarding space of local weather change and sustainability, and healthcare. The GRIs are a way to deal with the multi-disciplinary analysis challenges in these fields, to attach and focus the analysis efforts of lecturers throughout the College.Within the College construction, the Division sits inside the College of Mathematical and Laptop Sciences, together with the Division of Arithmetic and the Division of Laptop Science. The College is a associate within the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, an institute that brings collectively the mathematical analysis actions at Heriot-Watt College and the College of Edinburgh. The Maxwell Institute is an internationally pre-eminent, collaborative centre for analysis and for postgraduate coaching within the mathematical sciences. It provides an atmosphere that may appeal to and foster the perfect mathematical expertise from around the globe.With an thrilling programme of analysis occasions, the Maxwell Institute is the center of mathematical sciences analysis in Edinburgh. It additionally coordinates the Maxwell Institute Graduate College (MIGS), to which all our mathematical sciences PhD college students belong. The Maxwell Institute was awarded round £6m of funding from the Engineering and Bodily Sciences Analysis Council for a centre for doctoral coaching in Mathematical Modelling, Evaluation and Computation (MAC-MIGS) and is making use of to resume the funding. Most of the doctoral college students work on matters in statistics.The Worldwide Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), positioned within the centre of Edinburgh, is one other bodily and networking useful resource for our employees. ICMS attracts prime worldwide mathematical guests all yr spherical by means of its intensive programme of worldwide workshops, conferences, and different analysis and outreach actions. Lots of our employees spend a few days every week there, to satisfy with collaborators on the College of Edinburgh.The College of Mathematical and Laptop Sciences has an Athena SWAN Bronze Award and is dedicated to its equality constitution, which incorporates having a various and inclusive workforce, and to providing equality of alternative to all.How you can ApplyFunctions may be submitted till midnight on Friday third Might.Interviews will happen w/c twentieth Might candidates should submit through the Heriot-Watt College on-line recruitment system: (1) a canopy letter describing their curiosity and suitability for the submit; (2) a full CV; (3) An overview of their analysis plans for the following few years; (4) A one-page abstract of their instructing philosophy or strategy to instructing; and (5) a listing of publications.When you’ve got any queries, then please don’t hesitate to contact both Professor Catherine Donnelly, Head of Division, or Professor George Streftaris, .At Heriot Watt we’re obsessed with our values and look to them to attach our individuals globally and to assist us collaborate and have fun our success by means of working collectively. Our analysis programmes can ship actual world influence which is achieved by means of the variety of our worldwide neighborhood and the popularity of inventive expertise that connects our world group.Our flourishing neighborhood offers you the liberty to problem and to carry your enterprising thoughts and to assist our companions with options that may be utilized now and sooner or later. Be a part of us and Heriot Watt will offer you a platform to thrive and work in a means that additionally helps you reside your life in steadiness with well-being and inclusiveness on the coronary heart of our world neighborhood.Heriot-Watt College is dedicated to securing equality of alternative in employment and to the creation of an atmosphere wherein people are chosen, skilled, promoted, appraised and in any other case handled on the only foundation of their related deserves and talents. Equality and variety are all about maximising potential and making a tradition of inclusion for all.Heriot-Watt College values variety throughout our College neighborhood and welcomes functions from all sectors of society, significantly from underrepresented teams. For extra info, please see our web site and in addition our award-winning work in Incapacity Inclusive Science Careers .We welcome and can take into account versatile working patterns e.g. part-time working and job share choices.Use our whole rewards calculator: to see the worth of advantages offered by Heriot-Watt College.

Anticipated wage

£45585 – 54395 per yr

Location

Edinburgh – Midlothian

Job date

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 23:58:03 GMT

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