I have been recently offered an interview call for my dream job - Asst. Professor (sandwiched between lecturer & Assoc Prof) at a newly founded research group at a mid-tier UK university.

I just completed my PhD last month (Mar 2019) from top-tier (Oxbridge) university and had applied for the position without really expecting an interview call. I have been asked to prepare a 10 minute presentation titled "Your 3 year plan to become an independent academic"

The problem is that the interview is scheduled immediately (in less than 2 days), and this doesn't give me enough time to contact my former PhD supervisor(s) and ask them for their valuable time/advice.

I have zero post-doc experience as an independent researcher. My questions are:

• How deeply technical should I go in the slides for such an opportunity? (Any equations/journal citations are expected?)
• Should I have identified specific research methodologies, potentially leading to the PhD title for the PhD students I am supposed to supervise
• Is it more appropriate to be modest and put in the slides to aim to just co-supervise (rather than be primary supervisor for) PhD student
• Is an individual year-wise breakdown/Gantt chart expected at such faculty interviews?
• Should I identify the grants that I shall be applying to? (In particular, what specific EPSRC programmes exist for early career researchers?)

I am really sorry to be naive and asking a ton of questions here. The faculty position is in exactly the same area as my PhD (in energy engineering/alternative fuels) and I'd like to give it my very best.