Research Fellow in Statistical Computing
£29,853 - £35,646 per annum
Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM)
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of St Andrews
Scotland
Closing date for applications: 24 May 2010
The post is for 1 year, with a possible extension to a further 2 years,
and is available from 1 July 2010, or as soon as possible thereafter.
You will collaborate with other research staff within the Centre for
Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM) to write,
test and maintain computer code to implement new statistical methods
developed within the centre. You may also participate in development of
the new methods and in writing up the research outputs for publication.
If desired, there is the possibility to co-teach the more
computational parts of some undergraduate courses.
You will work on a variety of projects. The main project involves
extending the software Distance, written by members of CREEM (and
others) to allow the design and analysis of distance sampling surveys of
wildlife populations. Other potential projects involve implementing
code in the statistical environment R to allow statistical modelling of
wildlife population dynamics; writing code in a 3rd generation language
(3GL) to model animal movement based on tag data; implementing parallel
processing techniques; and writing Bayesian statistical models in the
software OpenBUGS.
You should have training and practical experience in scientific
computing, and some training in statistics. You should be familiar with
the statistical environment R; experience of 3GLs is desirable, as is
experience with Visual Basic, OpenBUGS and parallel programming. Good
communication and team working skills are essential, and experience
working collaboratively within a research environment is desirable. An
interest in statistical ecology will be a distinct advantage.
Informal enquiries to Dr Len Thomas (email: [email protected]).
Closing date for applications: 24 May 2010
Interviews will be held on 4th June 2010
Further particulars of the position are available from the university
recruitment web site:
https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies.aspx
or directly from
http://www.creem.st-and.ac.uk/len/SK4935.pdf
