Associate Professor (or Professorship) in

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Oxford Living Subsidy

Job summary

The University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute, invites applications for an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Applied Mathematics. The successful candidate will join a thriving research community and contribute to high-quality research, teaching, and outreach activities in Oxford.

The appointee will carry out, disseminate, and supervise research at an international standard, teach across a range of mathematical topics, and support diversity initiatives within the department.

Qualifications

• PhD in mathematics or closely related discipline with outstanding research in applied mathematics.
• Ability to teach a range of mathematics topics across lectures, classes, and tutorials.

Responsibilities

• Carry out and disseminate high-quality research in applied mathematics.
• Obtain funding for research activities and supervise research groups.
• Teach a range of mathematics topics via lectures, classes, and tutorials.

Skills

Research excellence

Teaching

Data-centric methods

Education

PhD in mathematics

Tools

Machine learning

Job description

The Mathematical Institute proposes to appoint an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Applied Mathematics from 1 October 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will be appointed as an Official Student at Christ Church (the equivalent of Tutorial Fellows in other colleges), under arrangements described in the job description.

• The combined University and College salary scale has a minimum point of £57,986 per annum, plus additional benefits and allowances including an Oxford Living Subsidy of £21,567 per annum.
• An allowance of £3,199 per annum would be payable upon award of Full Professor title.

The Associate Professor will join a thriving research community of applied mathematicians at Oxford, at the world-leading Mathematical Institute. They will play a leading role in helping to build further collaborations across the global research community, in addition to engaging with outreach activities to support the department in achieving its strategic aim to improve the diversity of its undergraduate and postgraduate student body, and in particular its gender diversity. They will be responsible for carrying out, disseminating the results of, obtaining funding for, and supervising research at a high international standard in the field of applied mathematics and for teaching a range of topics in mathematics via lectures, classes and tutorials. A complete list of duties and responsibilities is set out in the job description.

The successful candidate will have a PhD in mathematics or a closely related discipline, with a record of outstanding research in applied mathematics. We welcome applications from across applied mathematics , with a preference for candidates developing or applying modern data-centric computational methodologies, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, to advance fundamental understanding, and engineering, of problems arising in the physical, biological, medical, and information sciences.They will be expected to teach effectively across a range of topics in mathematics.

Only applications received before 12.00 noon UK time on Monday 28 September 2026 can be considered.

In person interviews will take place in Oxford on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 October 2026.