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Research Fellow

On-site in London·Added 11 days ago (last checked 1 Oct)

Overview

Benefits

  • 41 days holiday

    Per the ad, which doesn’t say whether bank holidays are on top.

  • Cycle to work and season ticket loan

    Commuter benefits named in the ad.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits, some of which are below:

  • 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 6 closure days)
  • Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
  • Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
  • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
  • Immigration loan
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
  • Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
  • Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits, some of which are below: • 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 6 closure days) • Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme • Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan • Immigration loan • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay • Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service • Discounted medical insurance Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

The role

The successful candidate will need to evidence the following in their application. They must hold a PhD, or be close to completing a PhD, in Operations Research, Operations Management, Economics, Computer Science, or a related discipline. If the PhD has not been formally awarded before the employment start date, the post holder will be appointed at the Research Assistant Grade 6B level.

They must demonstrate clear interest in one of the two research agendas presented as core to this role, as set out in the Job Description. This interest must be evidenced in the Cover Letter, where applicants are required to specify which agenda they intend to pursue and how they plan to use the 12‑month appointment to meet the duties and responsibilities of the post.

They must also demonstrate advanced knowledge and experience in optimisation methods or game theory, mechanism design, economic theory, and strong mathematical and analytical skills, including experience with formal proofs. This expertise should be evidenced through the CV and writing samples. In addition, applicants must show that they can propose a research plan that fits within one of the two research directions described in the Job Description, and this should be clearly articulated in the Cover Letter.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details. When completing your supporting statement, please tell us, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Job Description.

What you'll do

UCL School of Management Operations and Technology group is seeking a motivated, independent, and highly skilled Postdoctoral Research Fellow to contribute to a research agenda in the following two potential directions:

  • Led by Dr. Kenan Arifoglu, Dr. Aras Selvi: research on end-to-end synthetic data generation and decision making under uncertainty. The work will develop new methods for generating privacy-preserving data that remain useful for the operational decisions ultimately made from them, rather than treating data generation and decision making as separate stages. A particular focus will be on high-stakes healthcare settings, where sensitive data must support reliable planning, capacity, and resource-allocation decisions under uncertainty despite privacy restrictions.
  • Led by Dr. Yi-Chun Akchen and Dr. Mengzhenyu Zhang: projects on examining how firms, platforms, and market designers can use information and assortment strategically. Two related research projects are possible. The first project studies information disclosure combined with mechanism design in markets with private information. The second studies dynamic information and assortment policies in markets where customers arrive over time and do not observe the history of previous decisions. Both contribute to a broader understanding of how limited, carefully designed communication and menus can improve allocation, coordination, and revenue.

This post is a fixed‑term, 12‑month contract. The role is based at the School's Canary Wharf campus, and the start date is flexible, with appointments possible from January 2027.

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In their own words

About the company & team

The UCL School of Management is home to UCL's business and management research and education programmes. The School has forged a reputation for world-leading research and teaching in the areas of innovation management, the creation and growth of technology-intensive organisations, business analytics, and entrepreneurship. The research undertaken at the UCL School of Management has been rated as 'world-leading' and 'internationally excellent' in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF), placing us 2nd in the UK for Business and Management. The School is accredited by both the AACSB and AMBA, and is a member of the Chartered Association of Business Schools.

The School is home to over 2,300 students, with more than 55% from outside the UK, who study across a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, executive and PhD programmes. These programmes prepare our students for leadership roles in the next generation of tech-intensive organisations and new ventures, as well as in finance and consulting firms.

This is an exciting time to join the UCL School of Management, which, since 2025, has been undergoing a rapid expansion to deliver a new strategy that will see staff and student numbers double over the coming years. This growth includes new degree programmes, additional staff, and enhanced facilities at our Canary Wharf campus, supporting our mission to educate socially conscious entrepreneurial leaders equipped to tackle the world's greatest challenges.

Further information about the School can be found here: www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/

Additional information

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and, for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. You can

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