Lecturer in Computer Security (282537)
 

Salary range: Grade 7: £36,914 - £40,322, 
                       Grade 8: £41,526 - £51,034
Term: Open Ended
FTE: 1.0
Closing date: 29.03.2020

The Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Computer Security in order to grow its expanding Computer Security research expertise, and to support the development and delivery of a growing portfolio of postgraduate and undergraduate modules in the area. Based within the Faculty of Science, CIS is an internationally recognised research department specialising in computer security, health informatics, interactive systems, information science and theoretical computer science. It is home to around 600 undergraduate, taught postgraduate and PhD students with an increasing emphasis on online delivery of high quality educational programmes. CIS is working closely with industry through a growing portfolio of Knowledge Exchange research and education projects supported by the Scottish Funding Council Innovation Centres, like the DataLab and the Digital Health and Care Institute, and Innovate UK.

CIS in partnership with key stakeholders has developed a Graduate Apprenticeship MSc in Cyber Security. This MSc programme is designed for learners employed full time within an IT role in industry with a significant credit-bearing work-based learning component. Successful applicants will be expected to play a central role in the delivery and future design of the programme.

Successful applicants will be expected to join the Strathclyde Computer Security research group (https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/strathclydesecurityresearchgroup/), a multi-disciplinary group bringing together researchers from CIS and Engineering. The group pursues research in both technical security, like network security, security policy verification, malware and intrusion analysis, digital forensics, software defined radio security, and cyber-physical systems security; as well as human and organisational factors in security and privacy, and cybercrime. The group’s research is supported by broad funding from UKRI (EPSRC, ESRC and AHRC), EU, and industrial partners (e.g. CISCO, Brocade, Juniper, VMWare, Samsung, Fortinet and Scottish Power). The group conducts practical research work utilising a number of specially developed experimental testbeds (The Experimental Network ArChitectures Testbed (ENACT); The Ransom Architectures for Network and Systems Opportunistic Malware (RANSOM) Testbed; and The Power Network Demonstration Centre (PNDC) Testbed). Ideal candidates will either strengthen the group’s multi-disciplinary research capability with research expertise in IoT security and privacy, cyber-physical systems security, and security data analytics, or will complement its expertise in areas like secure coding and secure software engineering.

We seek to recruit candidates that demonstrate significant promise in their research discipline with a record of achievement in their career to date. The successful candidate will possess a PhD in Computer Security or Privacy and have a body published research in high quality publications with research interests in computer security and/or privacy.

Research Starter Grant The Faculty of Science offers a Research Starter Grant to all new full-time, non-professorial, academic staff within the Faculty. The Grant may be used for any purpose that assists staff to establish their Strathclyde research career and to assist in attracting additional funding for research from external sources. Any grant awarded will be to a maximum of £10,000, and the planned expenditure of the award is normally for a period of 18 months. Departments may, however, add to the value of this award.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Prof. Neil Ghani, Head of Department (neil.ghani@strath.ac.uk).

Formal interviews for this post will be held during week commencing 20 April 2020.

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Faculty
Faculty of Science
Department/School
Computer and Information Sciences
Staff Category
Academic
Type of Employment
Open-ended
Working Hours
Full-time
Vacancy Description
 

Salary range: Grade 7: £36,914 - £40,322, 
                       Grade 8: £41,526 - £51,034
Term: Open Ended
FTE: 1.0
Closing date: 29.03.2020

The Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Computer Security in order to grow its expanding Computer Security research expertise, and to support the development and delivery of a growing portfolio of postgraduate and undergraduate modules in the area. Based within the Faculty of Science, CIS is an internationally recognised research department specialising in computer security, health informatics, interactive systems, information science and theoretical computer science. It is home to around 600 undergraduate, taught postgraduate and PhD students with an increasing emphasis on online delivery of high quality educational programmes. CIS is working closely with industry through a growing portfolio of Knowledge Exchange research and education projects supported by the Scottish Funding Council Innovation Centres, like the DataLab and the Digital Health and Care Institute, and Innovate UK.

CIS in partnership with key stakeholders has developed a Graduate Apprenticeship MSc in Cyber Security. This MSc programme is designed for learners employed full time within an IT role in industry with a significant credit-bearing work-based learning component. Successful applicants will be expected to play a central role in the delivery and future design of the programme.

Successful applicants will be expected to join the Strathclyde Computer Security research group (https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/strathclydesecurityresearchgroup/), a multi-disciplinary group bringing together researchers from CIS and Engineering. The group pursues research in both technical security, like network security, security policy verification, malware and intrusion analysis, digital forensics, software defined radio security, and cyber-physical systems security; as well as human and organisational factors in security and privacy, and cybercrime. The group’s research is supported by broad funding from UKRI (EPSRC, ESRC and AHRC), EU, and industrial partners (e.g. CISCO, Brocade, Juniper, VMWare, Samsung, Fortinet and Scottish Power). The group conducts practical research work utilising a number of specially developed experimental testbeds (The Experimental Network ArChitectures Testbed (ENACT); The Ransom Architectures for Network and Systems Opportunistic Malware (RANSOM) Testbed; and The Power Network Demonstration Centre (PNDC) Testbed). Ideal candidates will either strengthen the group’s multi-disciplinary research capability with research expertise in IoT security and privacy, cyber-physical systems security, and security data analytics, or will complement its expertise in areas like secure coding and secure software engineering.

We seek to recruit candidates that demonstrate significant promise in their research discipline with a record of achievement in their career to date. The successful candidate will possess a PhD in Computer Security or Privacy and have a body published research in high quality publications with research interests in computer security and/or privacy.

Research Starter Grant The Faculty of Science offers a Research Starter Grant to all new full-time, non-professorial, academic staff within the Faculty. The Grant may be used for any purpose that assists staff to establish their Strathclyde research career and to assist in attracting additional funding for research from external sources. Any grant awarded will be to a maximum of £10,000, and the planned expenditure of the award is normally for a period of 18 months. Departments may, however, add to the value of this award.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Prof. Neil Ghani, Head of Department (neil.ghani@strath.ac.uk).

Formal interviews for this post will be held during week commencing 20 April 2020.

Click here for full details