Hi John, On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:06:42AM +0200, John Hughes wrote:

We're advertising a position for a PhD student in the FP group at Chalmers, with closing date the 1st of September. Interested? Please apply!

I'm an aerospace engineer currently employed in wind power. Most of my work since graduating in 2009 has been in the areas of real-time, mission-critical control and estimation. This work is all done with imperative programming languages. I studied some Scheme as an undergraduate at MIT and have been learning Haskell over the past year. I'm having a great time, I'm becoming much better at programming and I want to learn more, but the impression I get from the job page you linked is that I don't have enough functional programming experience in the real world to be qualified for your position. Is there any chance I'd be a reasonable fit for your position? Is it a good idea for me to apply? Thanks, Matt Peddie