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Faculty of Technology

School of Mathematics & Physics

Senior Research Associate for Drone Medical Logistics

Employment type:
Fixed-term (to 30 June 2024)

Employment basis:
Full-time

Salary:
£33,348 - £37,386 per annum

Post number:
ZZ

Date published: 26 April 2023

Closing date: 16 May 2023

Interview date: 26 May 2023
The University of Portsmouth is an ambitious institution with a track record of success.

One of only four universities in the south east of England to achieve a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework and ranked in the top 150 in the Times Higher Young University World Rankings.


Applications are invited for a Senior Research Associate (SRA) position to work on the Future Transport Zone (FTZ) programme, a £28.75 million project funded by the Department for Transport to trial innovative and sustainable ways to move people and freight.


This is a multidisciplinary project in collaboration with the University of Southampton and Solent Transport, comprising Southampton City Council, Portsmouth City Council, Isle of Wight Council, and Hampshire County Council.

The University of Portsmouth will trial drones for medical deliveries for the NHS to move medical supplies between three hospitals in Hampshire - Southampton General Hospital, Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth and St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight.

Using drones for medical deliveries has the potential to significantly reduce the time it takes to get crucial medical test results for hospital patients, or deliver life saving medicines to remote parts of the country.


Detailed information about the project:

The SRA will lead on the implementation of a stochastic optimisation-simulation environment for optimising and evaluating multimodal supply chains involving land-to-UAV and UAV-to-land logistics interchanges, and the optimal scheduling of UAVs for deliveries and collections.

The optimisation-simulation tool will aid logistics planners understand how multiple freight transport modes involving various land-to-UAV interfaces could be adopted into their existing operations, focussing on the NHS case study.

This could include interfaces such as direct-to consignee (including land-and-deliver and in-flight drop), through micro-consolidation points to consignees or through dynamic drop-off points served by sustainable transport modes.


The researcher will also lead on the simulation and evaluation of the impacts of potential drone-land and land-drone logistics operating scenarios.

Applicants should have a PhD (or equivalent research experience) in Operational Research (OR) and logistics, or a related discipline.

Experience is required in applied OR, simulation, freight logistics and desirable in drone logistics; proficiency in computer programming is also required; and the ability to work with academics, local authorities and stakeholders.


The models and algorithms developed are expected to be of sufficient scientific novelty that they will lead to articles published in leading OR and transport scientific journals.

SRA is also expected to disseminate the research findings at project meetings, international conferences, and industrial events.


They will also support the research activity at the University of Portsmouth, and encourage junior researchers such as PhD students in their research work.

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