Research Fellow

University of Birmingham - School of Computer Science

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to December 2027

Background

To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project.

The successful candidate will contribute to the project "Higher-Order Monad-based Programming and Reasoning (HOMBRe)," which explores foundational aspects of program semantics and verification. A central focus of the project is the treatment of computational effects via monads and their generalizations. The project also investigates the semantics of iteration and recursion via trace operators, with particular interest in the notion of guarded traces. In addition to theoretical development, HOMBRe involves formalization in type theory and the mechanization of results using interactive theorem provers. The project welcomes a broad range of perspectives across functional-imperative programming, verification logics, and categorical semantics.

Role Summary

• Work within specified research grants and projects and contribute to writing bids
• Operate within area of specialism
• Analyse and interpret research findings and results
• Contribute to generating funding
• Contribute to licensing or spin out deals with demonstrated commercial success (such as revenues, asset or company sales, IP generated) and/or public understanding of the discipline or similar

Main Duties

The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.

• Develop research objectives and proposals for own or joint research, with assistance of a mentor if required
• Contribute to writing bids for research funding
• Analyse and interpret data
• Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding
• Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc
• Supervise students on research related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline
• Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods
• Undertake management/administration arising from research
• Contribute to Departmental/School research-related activities and research-related administration

Person Specification

• Normally, a higher degree relevant to research area or equivalent qualifications/experience
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly
• Fluency in relevant models, techniques or methods and ability to contribute to developing new ones
• Ability to assess resource requirements and use resources effectively
• Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes

Informal enquiries to Dr Sergey Goncharov, email: S.Goncharov@bham.ac.uk

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