31.101, Jobs: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Assistant Professor, KU Leuven

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Subject: 31.101, Jobs: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Assistant Professor, KU Leuven

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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 06:52:26
From: Dirk Speelman [dirk.speelman at kuleuven.be]
Subject: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Assistant Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium

University or Organization: KU Leuven 
Job Location: Leuven, Belgium 
Job Title: Language Technologist with Expertise in Artificial Intelligence
Job Rank: Assistant Professor

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Description:

The Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven offers a fulltime tenure-track position (100%
assistant professor) for a language technologist with expertise in the domain
of Artificial Intelligence. We are looking for candidates who are
internationally oriented, have and excellent research record and relevant
teaching competence in Artificial Intelligence. 

The Department of Linguistics at KU Leuven is an internationally oriented
center for research and training in linguistics. The department is committed
to a wide range of approaches to the study of language(s), with a focus on
different research methods, theoretical frameworks and phenomena. Candidates
have a profile that complements the existing expertise within the department
and that will help to set up interdisciplinary collaboration with other
departments and centers within and beyond the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven.

Offer:

We offer a fulltime position in an intellectually inspiring environment. KU
Leuven is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university that
carries out both fundamental and applied scientific research. It is highly
inter- and multidisciplinarily focused and strives for international
excellence. In this regard, it actively works together with research partners
in Belgium and abroad. It provides its students with an academic education
that is based on high-quality scientific research.

You will work in Leuven, a historic, dynamic and lively city located in the
heart of Belgium, within 20 minutes from Brussels, the capital of the European
Union, and less than two hours from Paris, London and Amsterdam.

You will be appointed as assistant professor on the tenure track for a period
of 5 years. After this period and a positive evaluation, you are permanently
appointed (or tenured) as an associate professor. KU Leuven is well-equipped
to welcome foreign professors and their family. The university provides
practical support concerning immigration and administration, housing, child
care, Dutch courses, career coaching for partners, etc. In order to facilitate
scientific integration and research in the first stage of the appointment, a
start-up grant of 100.000 Euros is offered to new professors who do not have
other substantial research funding.

Interested?

A full description of the vacancy can be found at the link below.

For more information please contact Prof. dr. Geert Brône, tel.: +32 3 502 15
16, mail:geert.brone at kuleuven.be. 
For problems with online applying, please contact solliciteren at kuleuven.be.

KU Leuven places great importance on research integrity and ethical conduct
and will therefore ask you to sign an integrity statement upon appointment.

Application Deadline: 28-Feb-2020 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/55501283?hl=en&lang=en 
Contact Information:
	Prof. dr. Geert Brône 
	Email: geert.brone at kuleuven.be 
	Phone: +32 3 502 15 16 

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