POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW London, England
Job description
We are seeking a Postdoctoral researcher to work on the EPSRC-funded ESPRESSO project (“Efficient Search over Personal Repositories - Secure and Sovereign”).
The post (Post B) will be based in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Birkbeck, complementing two additional posts (Posts A and C) based in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton University
The ESPRESSO project is researching, developing and evaluating decentralised algorithms, meta-information data structures and indexing techniques to enable large-scale data search across Personal Online Datastores (pods) hosted on distributed pod servers, addressing both keyword-based search and SPARQL querying. EPRESSO builds on and extends existing frameworks and systems such as SOLID, NSS, Dataswift/HAT, gtk-gnutella, Gaian DB.
You will be working with Professors Alexandra Poulovassilis and George Roussos at Birkbeck, and Professors Thanassis Tiropanis and Adriane Chapman at Southampton, as well as our partner organisations (Dataswift and the NExT++ Centre, Singapore), the broader research community, and industry stakeholders.
This is a 2 year fixed Term contract with a start date of 1 November 2023 or as soon as possible.
This is the same cross-institutional selection panel as for the original post.
Remuneration
Research Level 2, Grade 7 £42,365 to £48,424
Enquiries
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