[Job-offers-cs] Postdoc and PhD student positions in the “Blockchain incentives: consensus and fairness” project at the University of Essex

[Pekka Orponen]

Dear all,


A 2-year postdoc position and a 3-year PhD studentship are available at 
the University of Essex<https://www.essex.ac.uk/ The applicants will 
work in areas related to Algorithmic Game Theory and Fair Division with 
applications in Blockchain. The research will be integral to the EPSRC 
project “Blockchain incentives: consensus and fairness”, aimed at 
providing a systematic analysis of blockchain protocols with respect to 
the strategic behaviour of the stakeholders and related fairness properties.

The successful applicants will work closely with Dr Maria 
Kyropoulou<https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/KYROP21400/Maria-Kyropoulou 
and will be a part of the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic 
Agents<https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/computational-finance-and-economic-agents 
In the context of the project the applicants will also collaborate with 
other AGT, Fair Division and Blockchain experts supporting the project, 
e.g. https://iohk.io/>
Deadline for applications: 30 May.

More details for the positions and how to apply are available here:

Postdoc position
https://vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=9918109NEm>
PhD position
https://www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/opportunities/blockchain-incentives>
Feel free to email 
maria.kyropoulou at essex.ac.uk<mailto:maria.kyropoulou at essex.ac.uk> (or 
kyropoulou.m at gmail.com<mailto:kyropoulou.m at gmail.com>) for any questions.

Best regards,
Maria