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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear all,</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A 2-year postdoc position and a 3-year PhD studentship are available at the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.essex.ac.uk/" title="https://www.essex.ac.uk/"><span style="color:#0078D7">University
of Essex</span></a>. 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.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The successful applicants will work closely with Dr<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/KYROP21400/Maria-Kyropoulou" title="https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/KYROP21400/Maria-Kyropoulou"><span style="color:#0078D7">Maria
Kyropoulou</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and will be a part of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/computational-finance-and-economic-agents" title="https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/computational-finance-and-economic-agents"><span style="color:#0078D7">Centre
for Computational Finance and Economic Agents</span></a>. In the context of the project the applicants will also collaborate with other AGT, Fair Division and Blockchain experts supporting the project, e.g.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://iohk.io/" title="https://iohk.io/"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://iohk.io/</span></a>.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Deadline for applications: 30 May.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">More details for the positions and how to apply are available here:</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Postdoc position</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=9918109NEm" title="https://vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=9918109NEm"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=9918109NEm</span></a></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">PhD position</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/opportunities/blockchain-incentives" title="https://www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/opportunities/blockchain-incentives"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/opportunities/blockchain-incentives</span></a></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Feel free to email<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:maria.kyropoulou@essex.ac.uk" title="mailto:maria.kyropoulou@essex.ac.uk"><span style="color:#0078D7">maria.kyropoulou@essex.ac.uk</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:kyropoulou.m@gmail.com" title="mailto:kyropoulou.m@gmail.com"><span style="color:#0078D7">kyropoulou.m@gmail.com</span></a>)
for any questions.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Maria</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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