PDRA Opportunities at UCL Statistical Science

There are a number of open post-doctoral opportunities in the Department of Statistical Science at University College London, please see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/department/jobs for further details.

Research Associate in Statistics (SILICOTRYP)

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate to work with Professor Mark Girolami on the SilicoTryp project “The Silicon Trypanasome”. The aim of the project is to develop statistical methods to support the study of models of metabolic pathways of the Trypanasome parasite. This research is funded by a grant from the BBSRC.

The post is available from October 2011 (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is initially funded for 24 months.

Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent qualification) and a research background in Statistics or Systems Biology. It is essential that the successful candidate has extensive experience of Bayesian methods and a strong interest in Biology.

Research Associate in Statistics (ICARUS)

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate to work with Professor Mark Girolami on the ICARUS project “An ICT Enabled Approach to Optimising the Reliability of manual Ultrasonic Non-destructive Testing ”. The aim of the project is to develop statistical methods to increase the probability of detecting weld faults. This research is funded by EU FP7 grant. Candidates should have a PhD and research background in Statistical Pattern Recognition or Machine Learning. It is essential that the successful candidate will have extensive experience of Bayesian methods in pattern recognition. The post is available from October 2011 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for 24 months.

Research Associate in Statistics (ARF)

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate to work with Professor Mark Girolami on the development of theory and methods for geometric Markov chain Monte Carlo. The aim of the project is to study the theory of Riemann manifold Monte Carlo methods. This research is funded by a grant from the EPSRC.

The post is available from October 2011 (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is initially funded for 12 months.

Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent qualification) and a research background in Mathematical Statistics.

Research Associate in Statistics (CLIMB)

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate to work with Professor Mark Girolami on the development of statistical pattern recognition methods. This research is funded by a grant from the EPSRC.

The post is available from September 2011 (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is funded for 5 months.

 Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent qualification) and a research background in Statistical Pattern Recognition or Machine Learning.