2 x Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Robotics & Mechatronics (Teaching & Research)

About the Role

The School of Engineering & Materials Science (SEMS) is home to The Centre for Advanced Robotics @ Queen Mary (ARQ). ARQ staff apply their robotics expertise to a wide range of research problems and applications, including soft robotics, cognitive robotics, haptics and tactile sensing, grasping and manipulation, robot learning, digital twins, human-robot interaction and drones, with strong potential to impact our core research themes of ‘Green Energy’, ‘Future Transport’ and ‘Bioengineering & Biomaterials’. Staff also support our delivery of engineering and robotics undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of study.

We are looking for world-leading researchers in any robotic area, including the design of sensors, actuators and robotic structures, robot autonomy, robot perception and control, robot learning, artificial intelligence engineering and human-robot interaction, able to complement and expand our robotics research and teaching and strengthen the integration of robotics activity across SEMS. In REF2022, SEMS was ranked 7th overall and 2nd for the quality of our research outputs.

About You

Applicants should have a proven track record of research achievement demonstrated through refereed journal publications, and at a minimum outstanding potential for research income generation, with a proven track record expected for a role at senior lecturer level.

A commitment to high-quality student education is also essential, to develop and support our taught programmes, particularly in the robotics area.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

In return, we offer 30 days’ leave per annum, access to a pension scheme, a season ticket loan scheme and competitive salaries. We also offer enhanced family friendly leave, and an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus. You will also work with a friendly team, with personal development opportunities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability.

How to Apply

Please complete an application form, including a single attachment, which clearly outlines if you apply for lecturer of senior lecturer, then details the following, in this order:

1. Research statement (1 page max) which clearly summarises your research achievements (funding success and outputs/impact) and outlines your future aspirations.
2. Education statement (1/2 page max) which summarises the most relevant elements of your teaching
3. CV in which the following information is clearly laid out:
   • career history and academic qualifications 
   • list of fully refereed journal papers (noting in bold the 4 you believe are the most significant to date) 
   • details of any research grant income, specifying funding attributed to you 

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