Professor and Head of Data Science for the Environment and Sustainability

Key Skills

Data science techniques, Machine learning techniques, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Job Description

Location: London

Salary: The starting salary will be on the Professorial Grade and commensurate with skills and experience, inclusive of London allowance.

About the Role

This roleis a research-intensive professorship and one of four key strategic academic appointments to DERI. These roles are unique in that they are dedicated to research and have minimal, if any, teaching responsibilities associated with them. Each post comes with support to facilitate the growth of a research group, and the forging of collaborations, enabling the post-holder to seamlessly establish themselves at DERI. The postholder will be a key member of the DERI leadership team, contributing to our development, as well as inspiring, and leading on expanding research in this space to deliver outstanding, interdisciplinary research achievements.

This leadership role will spearhead research in Data Science for the Environment and Sustainability. The postholder will inspire internal and external partners aligned to a shared vision, drive collaborative multi-disciplinary research and deliver large external research grants. For the successful candidate, this role provides exceptional scope with opportunities to set and define the research strategy in this area and lead its delivery, working closely with the Director of DERI.

About You

You should have a PhD in a relevant field or have an equivalent qualification or experience, with strong research expertise in Data Science with applications to the Environment and Sustainability at a national and international level, including publications in internationally renowned journals. You should be a natural collaborator and leader, inspirational to peers, with drive to turn ideas into tangible outputs. You should also be strongly aware of the role that organisational culture and reputation plays in achieving excellent research bids and outputs.

About the Institute

The Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI) is Queen Mary’s first University Research Institute, created as part of the university’s ambitious Strategy 2030. University Research Institutes represent a paradigm shift as they are outside the standard Queen Mary faculty structure and collaborate across the university to advance multi-disciplinary research and innovation.

DERI is dedicated to ground-breaking research in digital and data science, including artificial intelligence (AI). DERI offers an outstanding research environment including a dedicated physical space along with recently purchased high performance computing infrastructure to enable scientific breakthroughs. Further, DERI leads the university’s participation in The Alan Turing Institute, the UK national institute for data science and AI. By tackling grand challenges, DERI will have impact in academia, government, industry and more broadly, society.

DERI sits in a vibrant ecosystem for digital and data science and is based at the Whitechapel campus in East London in close proximity to Barts NHS Trust, Queen Mary Innovation, Queen Mary University Enterprise Zone.

This is a very exciting time to join us as DERI continues to expand, offering the opportunity for the postholder to conduct world-class research whilst also feeding into, and helping to steer the growth, and evolution of the Institute, and Data Science, digital, and data science research at Queen Mary, and more widely.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to (Greg Slabaugh) at g.slabaugh@qmul.ac.uk.