Postdoctural Research Fellow - School of Computer Science - Te Kura Mātai Rorohiko - 32 month fixed term

The University of Auckland seeks a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to develop and analyse computational and mathematical models of autonomous agency in living and artificial systems. The role contributes to an interdisciplinary international research project focused on operational closure, viability, semantic information and emergent individuality.

Responsibilities:

• We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to help develop new computational and mathematical approaches to understanding autonomous agency — how living and artificial systems maintain themselves, regulate their own viability, adapt, and develop forms of intrinsic and emergent agency
• You’ll work closely with Dr Matthew Egbert and an international network of collaborators from the University of Rochester, Santa Fe Institute, University of British Columbia, Dartmouth College, and the Basque Foundation for Science
• Your work will focus on developing and analysing models of operational closure, viability, semantic information and emergent individuality, with the goal of developing rigorous formal frameworks for understanding how agency can arise and be organised in living and artificial systems
• You’ll be comfortable working independently while also contributing to a collaborative international research team, communicating your findings to both academic and wider audiences, and ideally have experience working across disciplinary boundaries