UNIVERSITY OF SURREY: Analysis Fellow, Laptop Science

Laptop Science

Location:  Guildford

Wage:  £36,024 to £39,347 every year

Submit Sort:  Full Time

Closing Date:  23.59 hours BST on Monday 13 Could 2024

Reference:  004024-R

The College of Surrey is a world community of concepts and folks, devoted to life-changing education and research.

We’re bold and have a daring imaginative and prescient of what we wish to obtain – shaping ourselves into the most effective universities on the planet, which we’re attaining by means of the abilities and endeavour of each worker.  

Our tradition empowers individuals to attain this goal and to collectively, and individually, make an actual distinction.  

The position

Purposes are invited for a 30-months Analysis Fellow in E-Voting to work full time on an EPSRC-funded challenge TrustVote: Dispute-Decision Mechanisms and Methods for Non-public and Verifiable Voting. The profitable submit holder is predicted to begin as quickly as attainable and will probably be based mostly within the Division of Laptop Science and its extremely regarded Surrey Centre for Cyber Safety (SCCS), working with Dr. Cătălin Drăgan.

The goal of the challenge is to construct foundations for dispute-resolution and to reinforce present protocols (e.g., Helios, Belenios, Selene, ElectionGuard, Swiss Postal Voting) and/or suggest new voting protocols or dispute-resolution mechanisms.  Primarily based on the profitable candidate’s experience and curiosity the position can incorporate machine-checked proof ensures utilizing instruments corresponding to EasyCrypt, Squirrel, Proverif, and so on.

The Surrey Centre for Cyber Safety (SCCS) is a widely known centre of excellence for cyber security research and teaching. There are roughly 17 everlasting educational members and 15 non-academic researchers with experience on voting, formal modelling and verification, utilized cryptography, belief techniques, social media, communication and networks, and blockchain and distributed ledger applied sciences over key sectors corresponding to authorities, finance, communications, transport and cross-sector applied sciences. 

About you

• We’re on the lookout for candidates that display robust research and analytical expertise, have robust communication skills and enthusiasm for creating their very own research concepts.  
• Candidates ought to have experience in one of many following areas: e-voting, or formal verification of cryptographic protocols, or provable security.
• A PhD in Laptop Science, Arithmetic, or different carefully associated space (or be heading in the right direction of getting one very quickly on the time of software).

How you can apply

To use for this position, please add a CV and canopy letter together with your software on the College of Surrey Web site. 

The submit runs till October 31^th 2026. For casual enquiries and additional info please contact Dr. Cătălin Drăgan c.dragan@surrey.ac.uk 

Additional particulars:    Job Description    

Please be aware, it’s College Coverage to supply a beginning wage equal to Stage 3.6 (£34,980) to profitable candidates who’ve been awarded, however are but to obtain, their PhD certificates.  As soon as the unique PhD certificates has been submitted to the native HR Division, the wage will probably be elevated to Stage 4.1 (£36,024).