Optima Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Job no: 0052515
Location: Parkville
Position sort: Full-Time 1.0 FTE (fastened time period for 3 years)
School: School of Science
Division/College: College of Arithmetic and Statistics
Wage: UOM Stage A $80,258 – $108,906 – Stage B $114,645-$136,136 p.a. plus 17% tremendous

• Work intently with OPTIMA’s Chief Investigators, analysis college students, postdoctoral analysis fellows, the OPTIMA Supervisor, in addition to educational {and professional} employees from each OPTIMA areas
• Be accountable for advancing optimisation methodologies, creating open-source software program instruments, co-supervising Masters and PhD college students, collaborating with trade companions, and speaking and disseminating the analysis outcomes that aren’t commercial-in-confidence.
• Wage packaging, subsidised well being and wellbeing companies, health and cultural golf equipment, Myki reductions, and a 25% low cost on graduate programs to our employees and their speedy households!

Concerning the Position

You’ll be a member of the Australian Analysis Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Coaching Centre in Optimisation Applied sciences, Built-in Methodologies, and Functions (OPTIMA). You’ll conduct world-class analysis and supply coaching for analysis college students working in industrial optimisation. The analysis program includes a give attention to model-based and black-box optimisation methodologies of related to a broad vary of trade associate optimisation challenges. You’ll be accountable for advancing optimisation methodologies, creating open-source software program instruments, co-supervising Masters and PhD college students, collaborating with trade companions, and speaking and disseminating the analysis outcomes that aren’t commercial-in-confidence.

Your obligations will embody:

• You’re anticipated to considerably contribute in the direction of the analysis effort of the group and to develop your analysis experience with an growing diploma of autonomy.
• Beneath the steering and help of Senior Educational employees, conduct internationally aggressive analysis in optimisation, both as a member of a group or independently, leading to publications in high-quality journals and conferences, and different scholarly outputs to a excessive educational customary
• Actively take part in analysis seminars and conferences to disseminate analysis findings as alternatives come up
• Co-supervise or, the place acceptable, supervise honours, coursework masters or postgraduate analysis college students, and analysis help employees inside the area of the employees member’s space of analysis.

Who We Are Trying For

You’ll have a confirmed capability to conduct distinctive analysis in optimisation, evidenced by a powerful document of peer-reviewed publications relative to their post-PhD expertise. You also needs to possess experience in at the very least one of many following areas: operations analysis, constraint programming, evolutionary computation, computational optimisation, machine studying, stochastic optimisation, optimisation within the vitality sector, and may have the potential to mentor and encourage postgraduate and honours analysis college students.

Additionally, you will have:

• Completion of a PhD in a area of utilized arithmetic, statistics, pc science or engineering or associated self-discipline
• Potential to earn earnings by nationally aggressive exterior analysis granting our bodies
• Demonstrated capability to work constructively and collaboratively with colleagues in furthering the goals of OPTIMA, and a capability to work in multidisciplinary analysis or instructing groups
• Vital expertise with programming computational algorithms

For additional data concerning obligations and necessities, please check with the hooked up PD.

This place requires the incumbent to carry a present and legitimate Working with Kids Test to make sure the College supplies a protected atmosphere for everybody.

Please be aware: Visa sponsorship is accessible for this place.

Your New Workforce – Australian Analysis Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Coaching Centre in Optimisation Applied sciences, Built-in Methodologies, and Functions (OPTIMA). Headquartered in The College of Melbourne, OPTIMA brings collectively the assorted interdisciplinary fields with superior optimisation applied sciences – arithmetic, statistics, pc science, engineering, and economics. OPTIMA has 120 members, including18 chief investigators throughout the College of Melbourne and Monash College, and an extra 13 associate investigators throughout our trade organisations and three worldwide associate universities. This position will probably be positioned within the College of Arithmetic and Statistics.

What We Supply You!

As well as, we provide the chance to be a part of a vibrant group and luxuriate in a variety of advantages, together with beneficiant depart provisions, wage packaging, well being and well-being companies and reductions on graduate programs. For extra data, try our advantages  web page!

Concerning the College of Melbourne

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We’re devoted to making sure barrier free and inclusive practices to recruit probably the most gifted candidates. If you happen to require any cheap changes with the recruitment course of, please contact the e-mail tackle listed on the backside of the web page.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Candidates

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For additional data, together with our 2023-2027 Indigenous technique please go to -https://about.unimelb.edu.au/reconciliation/murmuk-djerring

Be part of Us!

If you happen to really feel this position is best for you, please apply with the next paperwork: 

• Resume
• Cowl Letter outlining your curiosity and expertise
• The responses in opposition to the Choice Standards^ (discovered within the Place Description)

^For data that can assist you with compiling quick statements to reply the choice standards and competencies, please go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/selection-criteria

You probably have any questions concerning the recruitment course of, please be happy to contact Ana Gencic by way of e-mail at [email protected] , making certain that you simply embody the Place Quantity and the Job Title as the topic. Please don’t share your utility to this e-mail tackle.

You probably have any explicit questions concerning the job please observe the main points listed on the Place Description.

Functions shut: THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER 2023 11:55 PM Australian Jap Customary Time (AEST)

Place Description:   0060111_Optima Postdoctoral Analysis Fellow_PD.pdf