Postdoctoral Fellow (Level B)

Job Description

• One of Australia’s leading research & teaching universities
• Vibrant campus life with a strong sense of community & inclusion
• Enjoy a career that makes a difference by collaborating & learning from the best

At UNSW, we pride ourselves on being a workplace where the best people come to do their best work.

THIS ROLE IS LOCATED IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.

The School of Mathematics and Statistics currently has more than ninety continuing academic staff and several dozen research staff as well as visiting academics. UNSW is the only university in Australia to be ranked in the top 100 in the world in mathematics and statistics by each of the three ranking bodies: CWTS Leiden, USNews and QS.

This position is based in the School of Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Science and supports the Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project: Fixing the holes in Bayesian model comparison. This role will develop new fundamental theory in Bayesian model comparison, and create fast and scalable methods for its implementation, building on techniques from computational statistics and machine learning.

The Postdoctoral Fellow (Level B) is expected to carry out independent and/or team research within Bayesian inference and computation and to carry out activities to develop their research expertise relevant to this field.