University Lecturer in Statistics in association with Jesus College

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES DIVISION

Department of Statistics in association with Jesus College

UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN STATISTICS FIXED TERM APPOINTMENT OF 5 YEARS' DURATION

The Department of Statistics proposes to appoint a University Lecturer in Statistics, from 1 October 2013, for a fixed term of five years.

The successful candidate will work at the Department of Statistics and will be offered a Tutorial Fellowship at Jesus College under arrangements described in the further particulars.

The combined University and College salary will be on a scale currently from £42,883 per annum.

The successful candidate will have research interests in either modern computational statistics and statistical machine learning, or in some other branch of Statistics that augments, complements or builds upon the research interests of current members of the department.

The successful candidate will have a PhD or equivalent degree in Statistics or related discipline, and a strong, relevant research record published in leading journals, as well as the potential to attract appropriate research funding.

The appointee will also be expected to have the ability to lecture in a wide range of topics for the joint Mathematics and Statistics degree at Oxford, the MSc programme in Applied Statistics, provide relevant supervision of graduate students, tutorial teaching in the first and second year of the Mathematics degree, and to carry out relevant duties of a Tutorial Fellow.

Further particulars, containing details of the application procedure and duties, may be obtained from the departmental website http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/vacancies or from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The closing date for applications is the 29 November 2012.

Interviews will take place on 23 January 2012 Please quote AM12001 on all correspondence Queries about the post should be addressed to Personnel Administration atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or telephone: +44 (0) 1865 272869/66.

Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.