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Department of Statistics

Research Officer

Salary from £43,277 to £51,714 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £55,497 pa inclusive of London allowance

Funding is available to support this position for 23 months expecting to start on 1 October 2026.  

NeST is a collaborative six-year EPSRC Programme Grant led by a team of 9 investigators located in 6 UK universities. NeST enables cross-over and the sharing of ideas and techniques across the universities. The investigatory team is diverse in many ways, but in particular has technical diversity with expertise in statistics, applied probability, computational methods, mathematics and experience of extensive engagement with external partners. Further information on NeST is available at https://nest-programme.ac.uk/

Applications are invited for a Research Officer position on the research project "Network Stochastic Processes and Time Series (NeST)" funded by the EPSRC.  You will conduct the relevant research under the direction of Professor Qiwei Yao.

Candidates should have:

·       a PhD in statistics or machine learning or expect to submit their PhD within 6 months of the post start date;

·       a solid background in mathematical statistics or machine learning theory;

·       excellent research achievement or potential for such achievement in high-dimensional statistics inference and theory;

·       an ability to conduct complex simulation and real data analysis; and advanced programming skills.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working, and excellent training and development opportunities.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.

To apply for this post, please go to www.jobs.lse.ac.uk. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email q.yao@lse.ac.uk. 

The closing date for receipt of applications is 21 August 2026 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.

Interviews will take place in September 2026.