Research Assistant/Associate (Secondment) (Fixed Term) Cambridge, East of England, England
Job description
A position (6-month Secondment) exists for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate to work on the development of stochastic optimisation methods for large-scale tomographic image reconstruction, within the EPSRC project PET++: Improving Localisation, Diagnosis and Quantification in Clinical and Medical PET Imaging with Randomised Optimisation https://petpp.github.io .
You will be an integrated member of the Cambridge Image Analysis (CIA) Group and as such participate in all research and research-related activities such as research projects, seminars and workshops. The CIA at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics constitutes a strong research group in mathematical imaging. We work on various inverse problems in imaging, partial differential equations and optimisation approaches, their theoretical analysis and computational realisation.
Duties include developing and conducting individual and collaborative research objectives, proposals and projects. The role holder will be expected to plan and manage their own research and administration, with guidance if required, and to assist in the preparation of proposals and applications to external bodies. You must be able to communicate material of a technical nature and be able to build internal and external contacts. You may be asked to assist in the supervision of student projects, the development of student research skills, provide instruction or plan/deliver seminars relating to the research area.
You will have or will be nearing the completion of, a PhD degree in mathematics or a closely related subject. Experience in a high-level programming language (e.g. python, MATLAB) is required as well as the willingness to learn to program in python. Moreover, experience in two or more of the following is desired: theoretical and/or applied optimisation, inverse imaging problems, variational reconstruction approaches, (bio-) medical imaging, GPU programming.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 30 September 2023 in the first instance.
Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.
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Please indicate the contact details of two academic referees on the online application form and upload a full curriculum vitae and a description of your recent research (not to exceed three pages). Please ensure that at least one of your referees is contactable at any time during the selection process, and is made aware that they will be contacted by the Mathematics HR Office Administrator to request that they upload a reference for you to our Web Recruitment System; and please encourage them to do so promptly.
Informal inquiries can be made by contacting [email protected]
Start date: 1 March 2023 - 30 September 2023
Please quote reference LE35447 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society. We particularly welcome applications from women and /or candidates from a BME background for this vacancy, as they are currently under-represented at this level in our Department.
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