Postdoctoral Researcher

Management Science

Lancaster University - Lancaster Centre in Forecasting

Ref: A363
Salary: £25,251 - £35,938
Closing date: 12 March 2012
Interview date: 26 March 2012
Applications are invited for a two-year post-doctoral position to commence early in 2012, funded by the Research Centre for Forecasting.
You should have the potential to develop academic and applied research of international standard; research interest and expertise should include the areas of time series forecasting, and / or time series data mining, either with methods of statistics, econometrics, machine learning or computational intelligence (e.g. artificial Neural Networks, etc), preferably in the context of management science, operational research or operations management. You should have, or almost have, excellent Masters and PhD degrees in management, engineering or computer science (or in a related subject area), with initial publications in preparation for leading scholarly journals. Corporate experience from applied research and consultancy projects is particularly valued. You will also have excellent verbal/written communication skills, a strong quantitative background, and basic computer programming experience (in C#, Matlab, or R etc.).
You would be expected to work approximately two days per week for the forecasting centre under the supervision of Dr Sven F Crone and Prof Robert Fildes, and to engage in joint research with the team in the remainder. You will work with academic colleagues and students whilst developing their research agenda. In addition to all aspects of academic research you will support the Forecasting Centre by engaging in applied forecasting research projects with companies, liaising with external clients, providing support in executive education courses and supporting the above activities through marketing and administration.
If you are selected to go through to the next stage of recruitment you will be asked to provide a complete research proposal in the area of forecasting or data mining on time series data according to the guidelines provided online which can be found at: www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/departments/ManSci/Research/
Enquiries on the research topics should be directed to either:
Professor Robert Fildes (Tel: +44 1524 593879) or Dr. Sven F. Crone, Directors, Lancaster Centre for Forecasting, Tel. +44 (0) 1524 592991 or mobile +49 (0) 171 4910100 - Email: r.fildes@lancaster.ac.uk or s.crone@lancaster.ac.uk