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Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology

 

Applications are invited for a Senior Research Associate in Digital Twins in the Department of Engineering, to work on the Digital Roads of the Future (DRF) initiative.

The key responsibilities and duties are to provide technical leadership and coordination to the DRF initiative via research advancement in Digital Twins within its existing grants; authoring new grant proposals; authoring publications and disseminating the initiative's outcomes; teaching and learning support; administration, financial management, planning and organisation; staff management, training, and supervising; and internal and external networking, while constantly upholding the university's values.

The skills, qualifications and experience required to perform the role are: (i) having obtained a PhD degree in any relevant engineering or science discipline, or architecture; (ii) possessing significant previous academic experience related to Digital Twins for infrastructure or the built environment as Research Associate or equivalent; (iii) possessing a relevant and very strong academic track record with peer-reviewed journal publications in top journals or patents, with some evidence of preparation of successful proposals; (iii) possessing previous project and financial management experience; (iv) possessing excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 40 months in the first instance or until 31 March 2027, whichever comes the soonest.

CLOSING DATE: 15 July 2022

For further information and how to apply, please visit: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/35340/ 

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