Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Research (ESR) Fellow - "Evidence-Based Robust Optimisation for Large Scale Evolvable Processes"

Applications are invited for a 36 month Early Stage Researcher (ESR) position within the UTOPIAE Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Training Network, to work on a project entitled “Evidence-Based Robust Optimisation for Large Scale Evolvable Processes”. This work relates to optimisation under uncertainty of large scale evolvable processes and forms part of a wider area of Research being undertaken by the network which covers modelling, optimisation, and uncertainty quantification. The overall aim of the area of research of this ESR position is to develop methods and algorithms to treat both aleatory and epistemic uncertainty in the context of the optimisation of complex systems and processes that evolve with time. The successful applicant will work in a multi-disciplinary team with members of the Department and their partners in the UTOPIAE Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Training Network. For further information on UTOPIAE, please see http://www.utopiae.eu/

Applicants will be required to meet the Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Stage Researcher eligibility criteria. In particular, at the time of appointment they should be within the first 4 years of their research career and should not have resided in the host country for more than 12 months in the last 3 years immediately before the appointment. Researchers are normally required to undertake trans-national mobility (i.e. move from one country to another) when taking up the appointment.

Key subject areas: Numerical optimisation; Uncertainty quantification; Aerospace Engineering; Design for Reliability and robustness; Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation; Navigation and Control; Statistics and probabilities; Decision making; Computational intelligence; Imprecise probabilities

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) shall, at the time of recruitment by the host organisation, be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and have not been awarded a doctoral degree.

All researchers recruited in an ITN must be Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) and undertake transnational mobility (including, but not limited to secondments with other UTOPIAE partner institutions, conference attendance, outreach and engagement work and any other appropriate work requiring travel as deemed necessary by their supervisor).

For all recruitment, the eligibility of the researcher will be determined at the time of their first recruitment in the project. The status of the researcher will not evolve over the life-time of the project.

CONDITIONS OF MOBILITY OF RESEARCHERS:
Researchers can be of any nationality. They are required to undertake transnational mobility (i.e. move from one country to another) when taking up their appointment (see mobility rule below). Therefore, nationality is not a criterion. Rather the location of the researcher’s residence or main activity during the 3 years prior to their recruitment is the determining factor.

Mobility Rule: at the time of recruitment by the host organisation, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account. As far as international European interest organisations or international organisations are concerned, this rule does not apply to the hosting of eligible researchers. However, the appointed researcher must not have spent more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment at the host organisation.
Example: German nationals can be eligible for recruitment at a beneficiary located in Germany as long as they have resided or carried out their main activity outside of Germany for more than 24 months in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment.

Note that the mobility rule applies to the (first) beneficiary where the researcher is recruited, and not to beneficiaries to which the researcher is sent or seconded. It is also only determined at one point in time: that of the fellow’s first recruitment in the project.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Applicants are required to submit a CV, cover letter and two reference letters. The cover letter needs to detail the knowledge, skills and experience you think make you the right candidate for the job. Applicants should confirm within their covering letter the length of time they resided in the host country in the last 3 years before 1st of October 2017. All applications should be emailed to [Email Address Removed] by the deadline of 16 April. Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to [Email Address Removed]