[alife] 3-month research assistantship in games engine-based artificial life, Manchester, UK

[Rene Doursat]

3-MONTH RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP IN GAMES ENGINE-BASED ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Autumn 2016

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AOF700/research-assistant/

Location: Manchester, UK
Salary: £21,605 to £24,298 Grade 5 PER ANNUM pro rata
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary
Advert placed on: 25th July 2016
Advert closes: 8th August 2016
Job Ref: T2-80233273-02

DEPARTMENT

Manchester Metropolitan University is one of the UK's largest and most popular Universities. Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology is a large and successful School in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. It is committed to delivering high quality teaching, world-leading and internationally excellent research and working with industry. The School has a long track record of securing grants from research councils, EU and government backed bodies like Innovate UK.

ROLE

Applications are invited for a graduate Research Assistant position to work within a team on developing a library/toolkit to support artificial life research using a modern games engine (e.g. Unity, Unreal Engine or CryEngine). This exciting 12-week project at the interface of artificial life evo-devo research and games development will be conducted at Manchester Metropolitan University within the Faculty of Science and Engineering in close collaboration with leading researchers in morphogenetic engineering, artificial life and nature-inspired computing.

IDEAL CANDIDATE

The successful candidate will undertake research in the field of artificial life and will ideally have prior research expertise in artificial life, procedural generation and/or morphogenetic engineering. Good programming skills in C#, C++ or JavaScript are essential along with good communication skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team in order to deliver individual and team objectives. You will be expected to report progress in formal meetings and to disseminate the results at conferences and in leading international journals.

** Informal discussions via contact with Dr Matthew Crossley (m.crossley at mmu.ac.uk / +44 (0)161 247 1514). **

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Rene Doursat -
Professor of Complex Systems -
Deputy Head, Informatics Research Centre -
School of Computing, Mathematics & Digital Technology -
Manchester Metropolitan University -
Manchester, M1 5GD, UK

Web: http://doursat.free.fr -
email: r.doursat at mmu.ac.uk -
work: +44 (0)161 247 3589

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