Lectureship: Starting from £37,756 rising to £45,053
Senior Lectureship/Readership: Starting from £46,400 rising to £53,765
Interviews will take place in the period 28th - 30th May 2014
Applications are invited for positions in Applied Mathematics at either Lecturer
(Assistant Professor), or Senior Lecturer/Reader (Associate Professor) level.
Applications are welcome in any area of Applied Mathematics which complements and strengthens existing areas of expertise at Bath, including : Analysis & Differential
Equations, Continuum Mechanics, Dynamical Systems & Complexity, Industrial
Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Control Theory,
Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Networks and Collective Behaviour.
A successful applicant at Senior Lecturer or Reader Level will have a strong track record of independent research of international standing. At Lecturer level a successful applicant will have shown (at least) exceptional potential for achieving such research excellence.
The appointees will be expected to sustain a leading research programme, and to be active in developing and submitting competitive applications for external funding.
Candidates should also have a strong interest in pursuing excellence in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and in supervising graduate students.
Both the Department and the University are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive working environment. We are working to improve the present gender balance within the Department, and particularly welcome applications from women, who are currently under-represented in academic posts.
Alongside completion of the online application form, candidates should upload (i) a full Curriculum Vitae, (ii) a statement of research interests of up to 3 pages and (iii) a one-page outline of teaching strategy and the names and addresses of at least three referees, using the online application portal at http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Nick Britton
( N.F.Britton@bath.ac.uk
, +44 (0)1225 386005), Professor Hartmut Logemann
( H.Logemann@bath.ac.uk
, +44 (0)1225 386008), Professor Paul Milewski
( P.A.Milewski@bath.ac.uk
, +44 (01)1225 386224) or the Head of Department,
Professor. Ivan Graham ( I.G.Graham@bath.ac.uk
, +44 (0)1225 386343).
Applied Mathematics at Bath
The Department wishes to make several appointments in Applied Mathematics.
Applications are welcome in any area of Applied Mathematics which strengthens and complements existing areas of expertise at Bath.
Two positions have arisen from departures of staff in the areas of Mathematical
Control Theory and Mathematical Biology and hence we would welcome strong applications in these areas.

The Applied Mathematics group has expanded in recent years, and, since August
2011, has appointed five new academic staff at all levels. There is a strong tradition of rigorous applied mathematics including interaction with pure mathematics in PDE and there is a growing collaboration between applied mathematics, particularly numerical and applied analysis and probability and statistics.
Members of the group are involved in interdisciplinary centres of the University of
Bath: the Centre for Mathematical Biology ( http://www.bath.ac.uk/cmb/ ) involves collaboration between mathematicians, biologists, and other researchers from across the University, the Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics
( http://www.bath.ac.uk/cnm/ ) hosts collaboration between applied mathematics, numerical analysis and areas of application and the Centre for Networks and
Collective Behaviour ( http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/centres/cncb/ ) is a universitywide collaboration, centred in Applied Mathematics. The Probability Laboratory at
Bath
( http://www.maths.bath.ac.uk/~ak257/pab/pab.html
) also has strong links with Applied
Mathematics.
The Department of Mathematical Sciences
The Department, which currently consists of 57 academic members of staff, carries out internationally excellent mathematical research. The research groups of the
Department as a whole are: Algebra & Geometry, Analysis & Differential Equations,
Continuum Mechanics, Dynamical Systems & Complexity, Industrial Applied
Mathematics, Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Control Theory, Numerical
Analysis, Probability, Statistics.
The Department maintains a unified vision of the mathematical sciences, embracing pure and applied mathematics, probability and statistics and their intradisciplinary interactions. We have fostered strong intradisciplinary connections, such as (i) the theory of partial differential equations with their applications to continuum mechanics, mathematical biology, mathematical control theory and numerical analysis, (ii) statistical modelling and probability theory with numerical analysis and (iii) analysis with geometry.
In our multidisciplinary and industrially applied research, we foster synergies between research teams, while simultaneously emphasising mathematical rigour underpinning the applications. Many projects have been supported by industry, such as our longrunning collaboration with the Met Office, which combines activity in stochastic processes, continuum mechanics, and scientific computing. Our research has environmental and economic impact in areas as diverse as forestry and fisheries, energy distribution and radioactive waste disposal, weather forecasting and climate modelling, surgery for cleft lip, and clinical trial design.
The Department provides a stimulating and supportive research environment. We appoint high-calibre staff whose expertise complements and extends our research profile and we provide mentoring for new appointees appropriate to their career stage.
Since the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the University of Bath has implemented several strategic investment initiatives. From these, the Department obtained a Professor in Pure Mathematics, two Readers in Applied Mathematics and

Statistics, and three Prize Fellows (permanent academic posts with an initial two-year research period). We have also made strong replacement appointments for all staff that have left. In the last six years, the overall expansion of staff numbers in the
Department was 21%. We expect further expansion as our recruitment of high-quality undergraduates continues to rise.
In 2010, the Department moved into a new five-storey building at the heart of the campus, providing bright new staff offices, space for collaborative discussion, and accommodation for support staff. There is also a custom-built lecture room with adjacent social and exhibition space which is used extensively for seminars, meetings and workshops organised by Department members.
More details of the research activities of the Department, and in particular of Applied
Mathematics, is given at http://www.bath.ac.uk/math-sci/research
Undergraduate Teaching
Undergraduate teaching activities of the Department encompass various degree programmes at Bachelor and Master level, and service teaching to other departments. Applications are currently buoyant and the department recruits close to
300 very well prepared students each year to its ambitious undergraduate programme. The popularity of the degree programme is enhanced by the availability of options which combine advanced studies in Mathematical Sciences with a year either in industry or spent studying abroad. The MMath programme offers four years training in Mathematical Sciences in which students can choose a wide range of options in pure and applied mathematics and statistics and probability, as well as units from other departments. A new MMath with industrial placement option has recently been added to the degree scheme.
Postgraduate Programmes
Departmental postgraduate taught provision includes established Masters
Programmes in `Mathematical Sciences' and `Modern Applications of Mathematics', which includes a Mathematical Biology stream. Postgraduate research is vibrant with an expanding PhD population, currently standing at more than 50. The Department pioneered the Doctoral College route to PhD in which students must pass 6 assessed graduate level mathematics courses during the first 18 months of 3.5 years’ funded study. This broadens and deepens postgraduate provision, providing formal training in areas not necessarily directly related to the student’s research. This initiative has been strengthened by the EPSRC-supported Taught Course Centre involving the universities of Bath, Bristol, Imperial College, Oxford and Warwick.
These five universities share video-linked graduate mathematics courses using an
Access Grid node at each university.
Further details of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes can be found at: http://www.bath.ac.uk/math-sci/admissions/

Career Development for New Staff
New lecturers, in particular Early Career Researchers, are given minimal administration and reduced teaching loads (normally one small course in the first year), and receive priority in studentship allocation and travel funding. Each is assigned a mentor to provide support in all aspects of work, including the development and implementation of a personal research strategy. Further support is provided by the Staff Development Performance Review system. Probationary staff take the Bath Course on Enhancing Academic Practice which includes units on rese arch management. The University’s Research Development Support Office assists with the preparation of First Grant bids, which all eligible staff are expected to make. The Faculty of Science provides start-up funds for selected projects of recent appointees.
The University Research Development and Support Office provides assistance with research proposals and knowledge transfer, and the Academic Staff
Development programme offers relevant training, for example in IT, research supervision and management.
The University of Bath
The University, founded in 1966, is regularly placed among the top dozen in the UK by national newspaper guides. Its buildings, including one newly constructed to house Mathematical Sciences and opened in 2010, are set in an attractive hill-top site about a mile from the centre of Bath, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage City, which has fine amenities. The campus is safe and friendly for students and has firstclass sports facilities. The university was named by The Sunday Times as the
“University of the Year” for 2011-12. For more information on the University and on the City of Bath see: http://www.bath.ac.uk/ http://www.bath.ac.uk/about/city/.
Conditions of service
See the website at http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/display.aspx?id=1196&pid=0
Making an application
Alongside completion of the online application form, candidates should upload (i) a full Curriculum Vitae, (ii) a statement of research interests of up to 3 pages and
(iii) a one-page outline of teaching strategy and the names and addresses of at least three referees, using the online application portal at: https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=VH2197
Applications should arrive by Wednesday 2 nd April 2014
Interviews will take place in the period 28th - 30th May 2014