Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Robotics, Biorobotics

Based in the Department of Engineering Mathematics, this Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Robotics position is initially funded for five years, with the opportunity to move to an Open Ended contract subject to future planned growth. Candidates are welcome from both early career and established stages with an emphasis on growing international strength.

You will complement our research strengths in Robotics (AI for robotics, swarm, soft, tactile and neuro-robotics) and application areas (medical, manipulation, autonomous systems, mobility, assistive, field and industrial robotics).

Applications are welcome that complement these areas or that open-up new areas, such as cyber-physical systems or digital twins, with strong potential for collaboration.

You should also provide and/or support innovation and leadership in education in the growing and evolving field of robotics and autonomous systems (including our sector-leading MSc Robotics programme and our new MSc Biorobotics programme).

The post will be in our Pathway 1 job family (Research, Teaching and Citizenship, see http://www.bristol.ac.uk/hr/grading/academic/pathways/ ).

You will show the clear potential to build an internationally leading research team generating high-quality outputs and able to secure funding from a range of sources, including industry.

You will support teaching growth in Robotics, specifically our new MSc in Biorobotics, and also in Engineering Mathematics at undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels.

You will also join the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), a partnership with the University of the West of England, connecting you to over 450 staff, students and innovators across a broad spectrum of robotics research.

You will have access to BRL’s extensive facilities, including a dedicated 4,500sqm research laboratory with numerous robot platforms and advanced fabrication and test facilities: https://www.bristolroboticslab.com .

The University of Bristol has a large number of postgraduate students in robotics through a joint BRL MSc programme and the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Autonomous Robotic Systems (FARSCOPE-TU), within which you will have the opportunity to propose projects and supervise PhD students: https://www.farscope.bris.ac.uk .

Further information is available in the attached job description.

We welcome applications from all members of our community and are particularly encouraging those from diverse and underrepresented groups to join us.

Informal enquires are welcome and can be directed to Prof. Tony Mulholland, Head of the Department of Engineering Mathematics ( [email protected] ).

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We welcome applications from all members of our community and are particularly encouraging those from diverse groups, such as members of the LGBT+ and BAME communities, to join us.