Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Financial Mathematics (T&R)

About the role

Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Financial Mathematics.  We are seeking to appoint an outstanding candidate in an area of Financial Mathematics, or in an area of Applied/Computational Mathematics that has a strong interdisciplinary link with finance. Applicants whose work has had a significant impact outside of the university environment are particularly encouraged to apply.  

About you  

A successful applicant will have demonstrated exceptional potential for achieving research excellence. He or she will be expected to develop a research platform within the School or to contribute to an existing one.

Candidates should also have a strong interest in pursuing excellence in teaching and supervising graduate students, as well as the ability and flexibility to teach across a range of topics in financial mathematics and mathematics in general at undergraduate and postgraduate level. 

About the School

The School is part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, which comprises of five schools and two institutes. The Faculty’s student population has grown in recent years, both within the UK and overseas, and its research profile has strengthened considerably.

The School has large and popular undergraduate and graduate programmes and aims to continue to expand its research profile as well as its study programmes across both UG and PGT. This position will be based in the Centre for Data Science, Statistics and Probability.

The School comprises 85 academic staff and associate lecturers, 16 research assistants and 14 members of professional services staff. The School is home to around 80 PhD students, and approximately 1,000 undergraduates and 100 master level students.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

The post is full-time and permanent with an expected start date of 01 December 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Boris Khoruzhenko (Head of School) at b.khoruzhenko@qmul.ac.uk and Dr Silvia Liverani (Head of the Centre in Probability, Statistics and Data Science) at s.liverani@qmul.ac.uk.

Please note, if you applied in the past for the Opportunity 2059, please do not re-apply or submit another application.

Closing date for applications is 15th September 2024.