Chair in Statistics
Salary:  Professorial (minimum £59,078)
Closing Date:  Thursday 31 January 2013
Full details:  http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A577

This new post, commencing 1 September 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter, is part of a continuing expansion of the Department which this year is also seeking to fill a Lectureship in Statistics and two Lectureships in Pure Mathematics, following the appointment of a Reader and two Lecturers in Statistics and a Professor and two Lecturers in Pure Mathematics last year.

Lancaster University has one of the largest and strongest statistics research groups in the UK comprising 21 academic staff, 7 research associates and 39 FTE research students. In the 2008 RAE, 60% of Lancaster’s Statistics and OR outputs were graded as 3* or 4*.  The statistics group takes a leading role in the development of statistical methodology such as Markov chain Monte Carlo, particle filtering, extreme value theory, wavelets, the analysis of longitudinal and spatial data and mixture models  Application interests include industry, medicine and the social sciences. In collaboration with the Department of Management Science, we host STOR-i, one of only three EPSRC-funded Doctoral Training Centres in the Mathematical Sciences.

You may have research interests in any area of statistics, but a proven record of attracting research funding and research studentships is required.  Appointments that strengthen our existing statistics research groups or lead to the establishment of similar groups with other methodological interests or to collaborations in other application areas are sought.  We also seek people who will be capable and enthusiastic supervisors of our growing body of research students and contributors to the Department’s teaching programme.

Informal enquiries can be made to: Professor John Whitehead, j.whitehead@lancaster.ac.uk