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<p class="MsoNormal">£32,004 - £38,183 per annum for Research Fellow.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">£26,052 - £31,758 per annum for Research Associate (does not require a PhD)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7.5 months fixed term in the first instance (there is a possibility to extend a further 12 months or more).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deadline: 11<sup>th</sup> June 2017.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My apologies for cross-posting. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are advertising two research positions, a research fellow or a research associate/postdoc position in Operations Research/ Optimisation/ Computational Intelligence for Transport/Logistics.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The successful candidate will join a dynamic team working on a project with immediate impact to real-world problems in transport/logistics. For some results we have already achieved in the project, please have a look at
<a href="http://ukvn-logistics.org/">http://ukvn-logistics.org/</a> and <a href="http://tiny.cc/IL_success_story">
http://tiny.cc/IL_success_story</a> .<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The required qualification and experience is a degree with good grades (a PhD for the Research Fellow post) in Computing, Engineering or Mathematics or other relevant areas with a focus on operational research or computational intelligence,
and a proportionate publication record. The successful candidate should have strong programming skills and experience in working with combinatorial problems and/or discrete-event or multi-agent simulation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The initial contract is for 7.5 months but there is a possibility to extend a further 12 months or more.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Could you please kindly forward this to any interested colleagues/candidates? Thank you very much.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Interested candidates please submit your application to our LJMU website:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Research Fellow post: <a href="https://jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.list?p_web_site_id=4005&p_function=text&p_show_results=Y&p_text=1903">
https://jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.list?p_web_site_id=4005&p_function=text&p_show_results=Y&p_text=1903</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Research Associate post: <a href="https://jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.list?p_web_site_id=4005&p_function=text&p_show_results=Y&p_text=1901">
https://jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.list?p_web_site_id=4005&p_function=text&p_show_results=Y&p_text=1901</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please also send your CV and transcripts to Dr. Trung Thanh Nguyen
<a href="mailto:T.T.Nguyen@ljmu.ac.uk">T.T.Nguyen@ljmu.ac.uk</a> for informal discussions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The interview will take place on 20<sup>th</sup> June and the successful candidate will be informed shortly after the interview.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr. Trung Thanh Nguyen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Reader in Operational Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Liverpool Logistics Offshore and Marine Research Institute (LOOM),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Department of Maritime and Mechanical Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Liverpool John Moores University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Phone: +44 151 231 2006<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Web: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-engineering-and-technology/department-of-maritime-and-mechanical-engineering/trung-thanh-nguyen</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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