Senior Research Fellow (Control Engineering)

Women's Engineering Society; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford invites applications for a Senior Research Fellow in Control Engineering. The post is permanent and based in Oxford, with a start date of January 2027 or soon after, reporting to the Head of Department.

The successful candidate will conduct original research, contribute to teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, and lead a research group.

Qualifications

• Doctoral level expertise in Control Engineering and related fields.
• Ability to lead and collaborate within a research group.
• Experience obtaining external funding for independent research programs.

Responsibilities

• Conduct original research in Control Engineering and its applications.
• Contribute to undergraduate and graduate teaching.
• Supervise Masters and Doctoral students and project work.
• Lead and manage a research group with clear objectives.
• Develop external funding to enable an independent program.

Skills

Doctorate in Control Engineering

Leadership in research

Grant funding experience

Education

PhD in Control Engineering

Job description

Senior Research Fellow (Control Engineering)

Permanent

Posted: 2 days ago

Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

Description

The Department of Engineering Science intends to appoint a full time Senior Research Fellow (SRF) in Control Engineering, from 1 January 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a permanent academic post, based in the Keble Road Triangle (OX1 3PJ). There is a procedure to apply for title of Associate Professor (under the MPLS Procedure for Conferment of Title) and to apply for the title of Full Professor in due course.

This appointment will strengthen the Department’s research in Control Engineering. The group’s current expertise includes, on the theory end, optimal, data-based, robust and model predictive control as well as large-scale, embedded, robust and distributed optimisation and polynomial/sum of squares methods; while applications span biology, battery/energy management systems, transportation, aerospace manufacturing systems, and agriculture. Candidates with research interests that align with or fall outside of the above areas are equally welcome.

The successful candidate will be expected to conduct original research in Control Engineering and its applications. They will hold a doctorate with significant post-qualification research experience in Control Engineering or a similar field. They will also be expected to contribute to the department’s research portfolio in control engineering, obtaining external funding to enable development of a new and independent research program. Applications are sought from across the Control Engineering discipline, either being complementarity to existing activities, or bringing a new research dimension to the Control Group.

The successful candidate will also assist in the teaching of their subject at the undergraduate and graduate level. This will include lectures, practical classes, demonstrations and design and project work. The subjects are expected to be in the general field of Control Engineering, Mathematics, and other areas of engineering, depending on the interests of the appointee. The department is developing a new MSc in Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Biology, and the successful candidate will be able to contribute to current and emerging areas of knowledge that are relevant and important to the theory and algorithms aspects of this MSc, as well as to the MSc's operation. Graduate teaching will also involve supervision of Masters and Doctoral students.

They will report to the Head of Department and act as the leader of their research group, setting clear task objectives, developing productive working relations and line-managing the members of the team.