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Research Associate in AI for Environmental Forecasting (SENTINEL project)
University of Leicester • Belgrave, Leicester
Posted
8 November 2026
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Role overview
University of Leicester is hiring a Research Associate in AI for Environmental Forecasting (SENTINEL project) in Belgrave, a scientific & qa role advertised as contract. The employer has not published a salary for this vacancy. University of Leicester holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.
As Research Associate in AI for Environmental Forecasting (SENTINEL project), you will lead the AI development strand of SENTINEL, a UKRI-funded project developing a physics-informed AI forecasting system for chemical fugitive emissions. You will build a multi-modal training dataset and design, train and evaluate the Receptor Transfer Function Learner, combining generative AI downscaling, graph neural networks and explainable AI to forecast community exposure to fugitive emissions 24 to 72 hour…
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