Research Fellow (Human-Robot Teaming)

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Queen's University Belfast

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Our summary

Salary: £42,972 a year
About £2,870 a month after tax.
Work mode: On-site, Belfast
Contract: Full-time
Closing date: Apply by Monday 16 November

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

Have or be about to obtain a PhD in a relevant area such as: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Human Factors / Cognitive Systems, Computer Science or a closely related discipline.
Significant, recent, relevant experience to include:
- Human participant experimental design
- Human cognitive/workload modelling
- Multimodal sensing and data fusion
- Time-series or real-time data analysis
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Adaptive or shared autonomy
- Human factors and experimental evaluation
- Real-time intelligent systems
Demonstrable experience in programming/scripting, beyond that taught in undergraduate engineering courses.
A proven track record of using relevant techniques to carry out analyses, critical evaluations, and interpretations of data in a research context.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more in our QUB Employee Rewards and Benefits Brochure.

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity.

If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application - http://go.qub.ac.uk/internationalstaffsupport.

The role

We are seeking an outstanding researcher to contribute to the HARMONICA project, an EU Horizon-funded Research and Innovation Action advancing Europe's recycling sector towards a human-centric Industry 5.0 model. The post will focus on adaptive human-robot teaming: developing intelligent systems that understand a human team member's changing cognitive and physical state and dynamically adapt robot behaviour and autonomy in complex shopfloor environments.

The successful candidate will work at the intersection of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), human-centred AI, multimodal sensing and machine learning, developing real-time approaches that enable robots and semi-autonomous mobile manipulators to respond appropriately to human workload, attention, capability and performance.

About the person

The successful candidate must have and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following essential criteria:

This is not an exhaustive list. To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Brief.

Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.