Post-Doctoral Researcher, School of Business and Law, CUBS/ Centre for Resilience and Business Continuity

20 Months, fixed-term, whole-time post

Position summary

The current situation regarding potential cyber threats has increased the complexity of critical sectors and infrastructure such as energy, health and transport. With increasing digitalisation and ever-evolving cyber threats, this represents an important pillar for business continuity management.

DYNAMO ( https://horizon-dynamo.eu/ ) is a project that aims to solve this vulnerable part of businesses. The knowledge generated by DYNAMO will help to speed up the recovery process for critical infrastructure organisations. The entire project is designed as a phased project, where the journey from concept to final outcome is a step-by-step process driven by user feedback.

The person appointed to this Post Doc position will be expected to support the PI on all UCC deliverables for the project and in the publication of papers from the DYNAMO outputs and related projects (feeding into the DYNAMO project).

Post Duration: 20 months

Salary: €42,781 - €49,177p.a. (IUA PD1 Salary Scale)

Project Title: HORIZON DYNAMO 

For an information package including further details of the post see https://ore.ucc.ie/.  

Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Dr Karen Neville, Director of the Centre for Resilience and Business Continuity (CRBC), CUBS; Email: [email protected]

Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal (https://ore.ucc.ie/). Queries relating to the online application process should be referred to [email protected], quoting the job-title and project name.

Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Friday,  16th  February 2024.

No late applications will be accepted.

Please note that an appointment to posts advertised will be dependent on University approval, together with the terms of the employment control framework for the higher education sector.

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