Requirements are the excellent completion of a degree at the Masters level in Geoinformatics, Geomatics, Computer Science or any scientific/technical subject in a relevant field, and excellent English language (both oral and writing) skills. Applicants have to submit the complete scholarship application as detailed at the under “Application form” (see left hand side of this website).
Candidates will be selected by the selection committee consisting of the faculty members. Successful candidates will then be invited to start their official admission process at the University of Salzburg. For this first selection process only electronic documentation is required.Undersign the last page electronically. If this is not possible, print out the last page, scan it and attach it like the other documents requested (specified at the last page of the application form).
Scan your certificates and convert them into pdf-files. Send the filled application form and the attachments.Please make sure that the application form and all attachments alltogether do not exceed 6 Mb .
Scholarship Application Deadline: 20 April, 2011
Doctoral Scholarship in Geographic Information Science, University of Salzburg, Austria
SRF Positions in Complex Systems at University of Oxford, UK
We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow in Complex Systems who will join the research group based at the CABDyN Complexity Centre at the University of Oxford. The advertised post is funded through one of the CABDyN Complexity Centre’s new projects: “Forecasting Financial Crises: Measurements, Models and Predictions” is funded under the European Commission’s Framework 7, Future of Emerging Technologies Open Scheme. The project aims to address the very important challenge of improving our ability to detect early warning signals for potential instabilities and crises in financial markets, by developing novel network-based measures and software tools that can be applied to large-scale financial datasets on a real-time basis.
Candidates will be expected to have a PhD in a cognate discipline e.g. mathematical biology, computer science, economics, engineering, mathematics, physics, or quantitative sociology (social network analysis) from a major research university, with postdoctoral training in complex systems and networks, and with a track record of serious interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement. Candidates will be expected to show evidence of substantial practical experience of managing and working with large-scale empirical data sets for research purposes, some familiarity more specifically with financial data sets, and an established interest in finance research literature. An appropriate track record of high-quality peer-reviewed publications on complex systems and networks, and good programming skills will be essential.The Senior Research Fellow will manage and analyse different large-scale financial datasets used in this project, will oversee the day-to-day management, will present research results at international workshops and conferences, and will co-author articles for publication in leading peer-reviewed journals.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 8 March 2011
Postdoctoral or PhD Position for International Master Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Germany
The duties include academic service in the area of new MSc programme development as well as research in intelligent systems. The successful candidate will – within a team – develop and manage a new international Master Programme in Computer Science and Intelligent Systems as well as contribute to its teaching. Furthermore, the candidate is expected to conduct research in the area of Knowledge Technology and Intelligent Systems. This post is open to Postdocs or PhD candidates. PhD candidates have the opportunity to advance their academic education through the completion of a doctoral dissertation.
Academic degree preferably in computer science qualifying the holder to carry out the above-mentioned responsibilities. In particular, an MSc or PhD in Artificial Intelligence or Computer Science is essential. Your demonstrated research interests should be in the areas of Knowledge Technology and Intelligent Systems (e.g. Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, Vision, or Knowledge Representation etc). We are also looking for very good communication skills and teamwork, in particular a very good command of both German and English is a requirement. Experience or a keen interest in developing a new MSc programme and very good programming skills are a plus.
The position is fulltime (39 hours per week). This initial short-term contract will end after two years and can be extended for a further three years (see also §2 of the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Law.
The university intends to increase the number of women amongst its academic personnel and encourages qualified women to apply. In compliance with the Hamburg Equal Opportunity Law, if applicants are equally qualified, preference will be given to qualified female applicants or qualified disabled applicants.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 28.2.2011
