Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Risk and Reliability Analysis
The Department of Mathematics, Section for Stochastic analysis, finance, insurance and risk is announcing a tenure-track position in risk and reliability analysis. The Department of Mathematics consists of six sections. For more information, see our webpage.
Section for Stochastic analysis, finance, insurance and risk is an interdisciplinary section for the evaluation of risk in finance, insurance and industrial systems. The section received much credit for its scientific contributions by the international committee that evaluated Norwegian mathematics in 2012. Student output has for many years been consistently high, and the demand for our candidates is huge.
Description
The appointment is a fixed-term postdoctoral position of six years. During this fixed-term period, the candidate is given the opportunity to qualify for a tenured position. Compulsory work in this period will be limited to up to 25% of working hours.
The position is in risk and reliability analysis. The research within this field combines a wide range of areas including stochastic modelling, statistical methods, graph theory, linear and non-linear optimization, sequential decision analysis under uncertainty, real options, stochastic and dynamic simulation, stochastic optimal control and stochastic differential equations. The candidate must contribute with research in her/his area of specialization, but with a focus on risk and reliability. Moreover, she/he should be open for interdisciplinary scientific cooperation, including collaboration with relevant industrial partners.
Qualifications
Tenure-track positions at the University of Oslo are reserved for candidates who are expected to develop the competence and independence required to build and head a leading international research group. Candidates must be able to demonstrate outstanding results in relation to the production of scientific material, dissemination, organization and leadership of a research project, teaching and development of a course of study. Both potential shown in recent research and total scientific output will be emphasized. Applicants should hold a doctorate (PhD) (or similar qualifications) in a field of relevance to risk and reliability theory. For appointment to a tenure-track position it is required that the public defence of the candidate's doctoral thesis was held within the preceding 5 years. Additional time may be allowed for leave relating to childbirth or adoption.
Pursuant to the Act relating to universities and university colleges, post holders at institutions can only be employed for one fixed-term period in a tenure-track position. Anyone employed for a fixed-term period of more than one year in an ordinary postdoctoral position pursuant to the Regulations concerning terms and conditions of employment for the posts of post-doctoral research fellow, research fellow, research assistant and resident or who has held such a postdoctoral appointment at a foreign institution, cannot be employed in a fixed-term postdoctoral tenure-track position.
The applicants will be judged according to their scientific and pedagogical qualifications with administrative and other qualifying activities taken into account as well. Interviews and trial lectures may be used as part of the appointment process.
The teaching languages at the University of Oslo are Norwegian and English. The person appointed to the position will be expected to be able to teach in Norwegian and English within two years.
Applicants, who at the time of appointment cannot provide documentary evidence of formal basic teaching competence, must acquire such competence in the course of a period of two years.
Please see Regulations on appointments to tenure-track positions, with supplementary provisions for UiO for more details regarding qualifications and the assessment.
Salary
Position code 1352, Pay Grade: 57 – 65 (NOK 483 700 – 560 700 per year, depending on qualifications and seniority).
The application must include:
- Application letter
- Project description
- CV (summarizing education, positions, pedagogical experience, administrative experience and other qualifying activity)
- Copies of educational certificates, transcript of records
- A complete list of publications and up to 5 academic works that the applicant wishes to be considered by the evaluation committee
- Names and contact details of 2-3 references (name, relation to candidate, e-mail and telephone number)
Please remember that all documents should be in English or a Scandinavian language.
In accordance with the University of Oslo's equal opportunities policy, we invite applications from all interested individuals regardless of gender or ethnicity.
UiO has an agreement for all employees, aiming to secure rights to research results a.o.
Contacts
Professor Arne Bang Huseby
Telephone: +47 22855860
Mobile: +47 90125434
Questions regarding Easycruit, contakt HR Officer Therese Ringvold
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1648411/64285?iso=no