Three (3) Research Fellows, College of Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Science, University of Exeter, UK (2016)

The College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences brings together the excellent teaching and research of these complementary specialisms. Scientists within the College are active in internationally recognised research across the disciplines playing a pivotal role in all five key interdisciplinary research themes within the University's Science Strategy: climate change and sustainable futures, extrasolar planets, functional materials, systems biology and translational medicine. Further, members of the College have played a key role in developing the research strategy for the £52.5M Living Systems Institute scheduled to open in Autumn 2016.

We wish to appoint three outstanding Research Fellows to join the recently funded EPSRC Centre for Predictive Modelling in Healthcare, a £2M award which brings together outstanding scientists in systems biomedicine, dynamical systems and statistical science. The Centre will focus on the development of predictive mathematical models, leading to new technologies supporting clinical decision making for a range of chronic health conditions including cardiac arrhythmias, dementia, diabetes and epilepsy.

With an additional £3M in research funding, the interface between mathematics, computer science and healthcare is one of the most rapidly expanding areas within the University. The successful candidates will join a research team currently consisting of 14 postdoctoral researchers and 10 PhD students. They will be co-located with researchers from the Wellcome Trust ISSF funded Centre for Biomedical Modelling and Analysis, housed in our state of the art Research, Innovation, Learning and Development (RILD) building.

Research Fellow in Mathematical Modelling of Transient and Excitable Dynamics (Ref. No: P50629)
Working with Professors Vadim Biktashev and Peter Ashwin on the project “Construction and analysis of models of transient and excitable dynamics”, the post holder will focus on the development of hybrid numerical-analytical methods for approximation of transient phenomena in spatio-temporal excitable systems, particularly with non-standard asymptotic structure, and data-driven mode-decomposition methods for transient fast-slow dynamics.

Research Fellow in Mathematical Modelling of Transient Network Dynamics (Ref. No: P50630)
Working with Professors Peter Ashwin and Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova on “Network structure and emergent dynamics”, this project will address classification of emergent transient dynamics for dynamically perturbed networks of nonlinear systems, and on construction of networks given observed transient or intermittent dynamics.

Research Fellow in Parameter Inference and Uncertainty Quantification for Healthcare (Ref. No: P50631)
Working with Professor Peter Challenor and Dr Marc Goodfellow “Data-Model Fusion and Uncertainty Quantification”, this project will focus on techniques to develop Bayesian emulators for efficient experimental design and techniques to estimate model structure and parameters from data.

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