UEA 2014 EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowships, Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate, Research in Physical Sciences - Ref: RA1135

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Applications are invited for an EPSRC senior post-doctoral research associate position in the School of Computing Sciences at University of East Anglia, UK (UEA 2014 EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowships, Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate, Research in Physical Sciences - Ref: RA1135).

Description
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The prestigious (EPSRC) Doctoral Prize Scheme aims to develop and assist the very best EPSRC-funded students to launch a successful career in research following the end of their PhD. The successful applicant will undertake significant new research under the mentorship of Dr Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos.  

The fellowship will focus on dependence modelling with copulas for non-normal multivariate/longitudinal response data and deal with the development of copula-based
(a)  models with some desirable properties,
(b)  computationally intensive yet tractable estimation methods,
with applications in biostatistics, psychometrics, insurance, etc.

Applicants must have recently completed a PhD in Statistics, or a closely related field (or submitted their thesis no more than 6 months before commencing the Fellowship) funded in whole or in part by EPSRC. This full time post is available after January 2015 for a period one year.

Closing date: 12 noon on 22 December 2014
Salary: £31,342 per annum

Further particulars and an application form are available on UEA HR website:  https://www.uea.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/research/ or Tel. +44 1603 593493.

Informal enquiries regarding the vacancy are welcomed and may be addressed to Dr Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos (see at the end of this post for contact details).