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Professor / Lecturer in Disordered Systems / Statistics

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater)
Closing date
13 Dec 2022

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Applications are invited for two posts, one in Disordered Systems and one in Statistics, as part of the King’s Inspired Science (KIS) initiative, in the Department of Mathematics at King’s College London. This is part of a continued strategic expansion of Mathematics at King’s, with 13 new posts being advertised across the mathematical sciences, as well as being part of the KIS initiative, which aims at substantial growth in core science with applications to life sciences. We expect to fill one post at the Lecturer level and the other at the Professor level. 

Candidates for the Disordered Systems post are expected to have a PhD in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics or related areas, and research expertise in some area of Complex and Disordered Systems (understood in a broad sense), with applications to Life Sciences (broadly defined). For example, but not exclusively, research interests could be in statistical and quantum mechanics of systems with disorder, Anderson or/and many-body localization, theory of random matrices, nonequilibrium dynamics, spin glasses and other glassy materials, neural networks, optimization and machine learning.

Candidates for the Statistics post are expected to have research expertise in some area of Statistical Methodology, with applications to Life Sciences (broadly defined), to bolster the department’s research strength in this area. Candidates should have the potential to carry out research that has high levels of originality, innovation and depth that is likely to  lead to significant impact on their field and beyond over the long term. 

The successful candidates will be expected to contribute to the research activity of the Department, take part in teaching and examining for the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes, make a contribution to the academic organisation of the Department, and have demonstrable ability to attract research funding.

The posts are available from March 2023 and are located at the Strand Campus of King’s College London.

Further particulars of the post can be located below, and further information about the department and the research group can be found at:    https://www.kcl.ac.uk/mathematics  

These posts will be offered on a permanent contract. 

These are full-time posts - 100% full time equivalent

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King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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