Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics
- Employer
- ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
- Location
- Egham, United Kingdom
- Salary
- £39,233 per annum - including London Allowance
- Closing date
- 24 Jun 2024
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- Academic Discipline
- Mathematics & Statistics, Physical Sciences, Physics & Astronomy
- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Postdocs, Research Related, Research Assistants / Officers
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Department of Mathematics
Location
Egham
Salary
£39,233 per annum - including London Allowance
This is the expected starting salary for this post however appointment at a higher point may be made for candidates who demonstrate exceptional skills and experience relevant to the role.
Post Type
Full Time
Closing Date
23.59 hours BST on Monday 24 June 2024
Reference
0624-193
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Full-Time, Fixed-Term (until 31 August 2025)
Applications are invited for the post of Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Mathematics.
Christopher Fuchs, Jacques Pienaar, and Rüdiger Schack are seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a recently awarded John Templeton Foundation grant to set up a three-year international consortium to explore, "What is Metrology if Quantum Measurements Participate in Making Reality?" QBism is part of the subject of research, but not exclusively so, as the grant is based upon a healthy debate between a number of parties.
While being based at Royal Holloway, the position will require a significant amount of travel to build synergy between the consortium nodes — Fuchs and Pienaar in Boston, Michel Bitbol at CNRS in Paris, the UFRJ experimental group in Rio de Janeiro, Adam Frank at the University of Rochester, Marcelo Gleiser at Dartmouth College, Richard Healey in Spain, Klaus Moelmer at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Eran Tal at McGill University in Montreal, Christopher Timpson at the University of Oxford, Harald Wiltsche at Linkoping University in Sweden, and Jun Ye at JILA in Boulder, Colorado. The position will come with a fairly large travel budget.
We are looking for either a philosopher with an interest in physics, or a physicist with an interest in philosophy. Either way, a researcher preferably sympathetic to developing connections between quantum interpretation and phenomenology (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty) and/or pragmatism (James, Dewey, Price, Brandom) and/or a Bayesian who can prove new quantum de Finetti theorems. (These preferences, however, are not an absolute requirement.)
In return we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Training and Development opportunities
- Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
- Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing.
- Free parking
The post is full time until 31 August 2025 and based in Egham, Surrey where the University is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Rüdiger Schack via R.Schack@rhul.ac.uk
For queries on the application process the Human Resources Department can be contacted by email at: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk
Please quote the reference: 0624-193
Closing Date: 23:59, 24 June 2024
Interview Date: 2/3 July 2024
Further details: Job Description & Person Specification
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One of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities.
Royal Holloway is one of the UK’s top 20 universities, ranked 129 globally (Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2015-16). We sit within the top 25% of UK universities for research that is rated world leading or internationally recognised and at 89%, our 2015 National Student Survey satisfaction rating is the highest of the University of London institutions.
The university has 21 academic departments and schools spanning the arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences, management, economics and law. We combine our world-class research and excellence in teaching with a global perspective, creating a close-knit community that inspires success. With some 9,000 students learning from internationally renowned academics and researchers, ours is a unique culture, where our students and colleagues feel recognised as individuals. We have a unique best-of-both-worlds location; a safe, leafy campus in Egham, Surrey, less than 40 minutes by train from central London and just seven miles from Heathrow airport, creating the environment where our community thrives.
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- ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
- Telephone
- +(44)01784 434455
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EGHAM HILL
EGHAM
SURREY
TW20 0EX
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