School of Mathematical Sciences
Location: Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK
Salary: £39,906 to £46,049(Full-Time/Indefinite with End Date)
Closing Date: Wednesday 10 June 2026
Interview Date: Friday 26 June 2026
Reference: 0264-26
This £4M programme is funded by EPSRC and brings together research groups from the Universities of Lancaster, Bristol, Warwickand the London School of Economics together with a committed group of industrial and public sector partners.
Interaction between the research groups at the universities will be strongly encouraged and resourced;our philosophy is to tackle the methodological, theoretical and computational aspects of these statistical problems together. This integrated approach is essential to achieving the substantive fundamental advances in statistics envisaged, and to ensuring that our new methods are sufficiently robust and efficient to be widely adopted by academics, industry and society more generally.
The programme is led by Idris Eckley (Lancaster University), Haeran Cho (University of Bristol), Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster University), Qiwei Yao (London School of Economics) and Yi Yu (University of Warwick).
This 2-year position is available at Lancaster University. You should have, or be close to completing, a PhD in Statistics or a closely related discipline. Throughout, you should have demonstrated an ability to develop new statistical theory and methods in one of the relevant areas, including but not limited to: anomaly detection; changepoint analysis; non-stationary time series analysis, high dimensional statistics, statistical-computational tradeoffs, scalable statistical methods. You will also have shown a demonstrable ability to produce academic writing of the highest publishable quality.
This is a are full-time position, though we will consider applicants requesting part-time or other flexible working arrangements.
Please note: unless specified otherwise in the advert, all advertised roles are UK based.
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