Professor of Control Engineering

The College of Oxford intends to nominate to the Professorship of Management Engineering. A non-stipendiary Professorial Fellowship with Kellogg Faculty is connected to this Professorship. It is a Statutory (full) Professorship, which is essentially the most senior educational grade at Oxford, usually named or endowed Chairs.

This appointment is a key a part of our plan to strengthen analysis and educating in Management Engineering at Oxford as a pillar of our portfolio in engineering science. We search candidates with an internationally acknowledged imaginative and prescient throughout the self-discipline of Management Engineering and its crossovers with adjoining fields. Present areas of exercise inside the management group embrace large-scale, embedded, strong and distributed optimization; polynomial/sum of squares strategies; strong and optimum management; and mannequin predictive management. The group additionally covers purposes together with biology, battery/power administration methods, transportation, aerospace, manufacturing methods and agriculture. Whereas purposes in these areas are welcome, the search is meant to determine the candidate finest in a position to assist and develop the group’s pursuits, extensively interpreted.

You must possess an impressive analysis and publication report, with internationally recognised stature within the self-discipline. You should have the imaginative and prescient, management, and skill to handle a considerable analysis crew, together with a report of securing grant funding, and a readiness to contribute to the event and administration of the Division of Engineering Science. You must have a wonderful report of educating and graduate supervision, and the flexibility to information and encourage junior colleagues.

A job description containing full particulars of the applying process and duties is obtainable by way of the hyperlink beneath. The time limit for purposes is

12:00 UK time on Monday 15 January 2024

. Interviews are anticipated to be held in March 2024. For queries in regards to the put up that aren’t answered within the job description, please contact the Head of Division on

[email protected]

or phone: +44 (0)1865 273003.

Purposes are significantly welcome from ladies, black, and minority ethnic candidates, all of whom are under-represented in educational posts in Oxford. The Division values range and inclusion and holds an Athena Swan Bronze award, highlighting its dedication to selling gender equality in academia. The College is a Dwelling Wage Employer, holds an Athena Swan Silver Award, HR Excellence in Analysis, and a Race Equality Constitution Bronze Award and is a Stonewall Range Champion. Our employees and college students come from everywhere in the world and we search to create a pleasant and inclusive tradition. Range is positively inspired by way of our EDI Committee, working teams and networks, for instance

eng.ox.ac.uk/women-in-engineering

, in addition to quite a lot of

household pleasant insurance policies

.