[Corpora-List] Job: Research Group Leaders, Multimodal Computing and Interaction, Saarland University, Germany

[Caroline Sporleder]

Saarland University is seeking to establish several

                      Junior Research Groups (W1/W2)

within the Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” 
which was established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the 
framework of the German Excellence Initiative.

The term “multimodal” describes the different types of digital information 
such as text, speech, images, video, graphics, and high-dimensional data, 
and the way it is perceived and communicated, particularly through vision, 
hearing, and human expression. The challenge is now to organize, 
understand, and search this multimodal information in a robust, efficient 
and intelligent way, and to create dependable systems that allow natural 
and intuitive multimodal interaction. We are looking for highly motivated 
young researchers with a background in the research areas of the cluster, 
including algorithmic foundations, secure and autonomous networked 
systems, open science web, information processing in the life sciences, 
visual computing, large-scale virtual environments, synthetic virtual 
characters, text and speech processing and multimodal dialog systems.
Additional information on the Cluster of Excellence is available on
http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de. Group leaders will receive junior faculty 
status at Saarland University, including the right to supervise Bachelor, 
Master and PhD students. Positions are limited to five years.

Applicants for W1 positions (phase I of the program) must have completed 
an outstanding PhD. Upon successful evaluation after two years, W1 group 
leaders are eligible for promotion to W2. Direct applicants for W2 
positions (phase II of the program) must have completed a postdoc stay and 
must have demonstrated outstanding research potential and the ability to 
successfully lead their own research group. Junior research groups are 
equipped with a budget of 80k to 100k Euros per year to cover research 
personnel and other costs.

Saarland University has leading departments in computer science and
computational linguistics, with more than 200 PhD students working on 
topics related to the cluster (see http://www.informatik-saarland.de
[www.informatik-saarland.de] for additional information). The German 
Excellence Initiative recently awarded multi-million grants to the Cluster 
of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” as well as to the 
“Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science”. An important factor to 
this success were the close ties to the Max Planck Institute for 
Informatics, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence 
(DFKI), and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems which are 
co-located on the same campus.

Candidates should submit their application (curriculum vitae, photograph, 
list of publications, short research plan, copies of degree certificates, 
copies of the five most important publications, list of five references) 
to Conny Liegl, Cluster of Excellence, Campus E1 7, 66123 Saarbrücken, 
Germany. Please, also send your application as a single PDF file to 
applications at mmci.uni-saarland.de.

The review of applications will begin on January 31, 2011, and applicants 
are strongly encouraged to submit applications by that date; however, 
applications will continue to be accepted until February 18, 2011. Final 
decisions will be made following a candidate symposium that will be held 
in the week of March 21–25, 2011.

Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with 
its policy of increasing the proportion of women in this type of 
employment, the University actively encourages applications from women. 
For candidates with equal qualification, preference will be given to 
people with physical disabilities.

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Caroline Sporleder
Cluster of Excellence MMCI / Computational Linguistics
Saarland University
csporled at coli.uni-sb.de
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~csporled
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