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The Department of Computer Science at the University of Surrey seeks to recruit
an outstanding post-doctoral researcher in the field of formal verification of
security for a full-time position as soon as possible after 16th September 2019.
The post is part of the 18.5 month project “FaCT: Faithful Composition of
Trust”. The main responsibility of the post holder will be to:
1. implement a lightweight Trusted Platform (TP) that relies on the guarantees
provided by a verified microkernel such as sel4 to ensure isolation, and
2. investigate the end-to-end security guarantees that can be provided for
communicating TP systems.
The post holder will be working closely with researchers within the security
group at Surrey and partner universities. The post holder will benefit from the
research environment provided by the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, an
Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research recognised by the
British Government. The Centre’s research focus is on the design and analysis
of security protocols, data privacy, access control, privacy preserving
security, trustworthy systems, and distributed ledger technologies.
Informal enquiries are welcome and should be directed to Dr Brijesh Dongol,
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> or Dr Santanu Dash,
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.
The University of Surrey is among the highest achieving universities in the
United Kingdom, having been awarded the Times/Sunday Times University of the
Year Award for 2016. We are ranked in the top 10 in the Guardian University
Guide 2018. In addition to your salary you will receive a generous annual leave
entitlement, pension provision and excellent development opportunities. Our
benefits package also includes an exclusive discounted membership package to
the Surrey Sports Park and an on-site Nursery. The University is committed to
equality of opportunity in employment and offer many opportunities to help
researchers develop as independent researchers.
Apply online or download application documents and further information at
http://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/056319. If you are unable to apply online please
contact Bianca Barrett ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>).
Closing date for applications: 27th August 2019
Expected start date: 16th September 2019
Salary: £31,302 to £35,211 per annum
