Academic

Position on Robot Scientist project

The Computational Biology group of the Department of Computer Science,
University of Wales Aberystwyth is a world leader in the application
of knowledge discovery techniques to scientific problems in biology
and chemistry.

The Robot Scientist project aims to integrate machine learning with
laboratory robotics to produce the first closed loop scientific
discovery system. The system will help analyse the flood of data
coming from new biological techniques which allow the complete
internal inventories of the working parts of cells to be examined. The
understanding of this data is the greatest open challenge to biology.

The research will be done under the leadership of Dr Ross D. King and
in collaboration with Professor D. Kell (Institute of Biological
Sciences), Professor S. Muggleton (University of York), Professor
S. Oliver (University of Manchester), and PharmaDM.

We are interested in candidates with a PhD who have demonstrable
research expertise in machine learning or bioinformatics. The
appointment will be for a fixed term of two and a half years on
the RA1A salary range.

Informal enquiries to Ross D. King on +44 (0)1970-622432 or
rdk@aber.ac.uk . For information on Computational Biology research
see: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/Research/bio/ and,
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/Research/gen_fp.htm for further
particulars.

An application form can be obtained by contacting the Personnel
Office, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Old College, King Street,
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 2AX. Tel: +44(0)1970-621586, fax:
+44(0)1970- 622975 or by e-mail: personnel@aber.ac.uk or at
http://www.aber.ac.uk/employment.html