Research Fellow (Postdoctoral), Web and Internet Science

Web & Internet Science

Location:  Highfield Campus
Salary:   £32,348 to £38,592 per annum
Full Time Fixed Term for three years
Closing Date:  Friday 23 September 2022
Interview Date:   To be confirmed
Reference:  1809322FP-R

1 Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) post

Web & Internet Science Group, Southampton University 

Salary:  £32,348- £38,592

The post is full-time for three years. The starting date will be 1 Novembert 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter. 

We are seeking a Postdoctoral researcher to work on the EPSRC-funded ESPRESSO project (“Efficient Search over Personal Repositories – Secure and Sovereign”).

The post is based at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton.  The project will be researching, developing and evaluating decentralised algorithms, meta-information data structures and indexing techniques to enable large-scale data search across Personal Online Datastores (pods) hosted on distributed pod servers, addressing both keyword-based search and SPARQL querying. EPRESSO will build on and extend existing frameworks and systems such as SOLID, NSS, Dataswift/HAT, gtk-gnutella, Gaian DB. 

You will be working with Professors Thanassis Tiropanis and Adriane Chapman (University of Southampton), Professors Alexandra Poulovassilis and George Roussos (Birkbeck, University of London), as well as our partner organisations (Dataswift and the NExT++ Centre, Singapore), the broader research community, and industry stakeholders. 

It is essential that you have a PhD in computer science, or equivalent professional qualifications and experience; ideally your PhD or equivalent professional qualifications and experience will be in distributed database systems, information retrieval, computer networking or semantic web.  

You will have a background in peer-to-peer systems, distributed query processing and information retrieval and you will be familiar with the technologies of the SOLID framework. You will be responsible for the research on decentralised search and querying algorithms over pods. Experience in Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies is also highly desirable. 

For further information please contact Thanassis Tiropanis (email t.tiropanis@southampton.ac.uk ) 

Applications will be considered from candidates who are working towards or nearing completion of a relevant PhD qualification. The title of Research Fellow will be applied upon completion of PhD.  Prior to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Research Assistant will be given.

Application Procedure

You should submit your completed online application form at https://jobs.soton.ac.uk . The application deadline will be midnight on the closing date stated above. If you need any assistance, please call Lauren Ward (Recruitment Team) on +44 (0) 23 8059 2507, or email recruitment@soton.ac.uk . Please quote reference 1809322FP on all correspondence.