Research Associate in Cosmology

at  Imperial College London

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ABOUT THE ROLE

As part of the UKRI Africa-UK Physics Partnership Collaborative Research Projects programme we are inviting applications for a Research Associate position. We are actively seeking applicants from Africa to join our collaborative team.

WHAT YOU WOULD BE DOING

You will be expected to help produce independent and original research, submit publications to refereed journals and support the activities of Imperial Astrophysics and the wider project team.
The principal scientific aim of the project is to address an important source of systematic errors affecting the international and world-leading Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, which is based in Africa and Australia. Radio frequency interference (RFI) from cell phones and satellites will corrupt a large part of the data from the SKA and removing it is key in order to reach the scientific goals of the SKA. We plan to use an artificial intelligence (AI), simulation-based inference (SBI) approach, which encompasses a number of elements: simulation; emulation; data compression; and statistical inference. These elements form the basis of simulation-based inference, which is rapidly becoming a powerful Bayesian analysis tool in cosmology.