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, including several involving Bayesian computation.
Examples are:
- Extending the software Distance, written by members of CREEM (and others) to allow the design and analysis of distance sampling surveys of wildlife
populations.
- Implementing code in the statistical environment R to allow statistical modelling of wildlife population dynamics
- Writing code in a 3rd generation language (3GL) to for Bayesian modelling animal movement based on tag data
- Implementing parallel processing techniques
- 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: Esta dirección de correo electrónico está protegida contra los robots de spam, necesita tener Javascript activado para poder verla ).
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

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