Job: Five Early-Stage Researcher (pre-doctoral) and two Experienced Researcher (post-doctoral) positions

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:27:38 +0100 (CET)
From: Fausto Giunchiglia <fausto at disi.unitn.it>
Message-ID: <52422.127.0.0.1.1385116058.squirrel at mail.disi.unitn.it>
X-url: http://www.essence-network.eu/hiring

The ESSENCE (Evolution of Shared SEmaNtics in Computational
Environments, www.essence-network.eu) Marie Curie Initial Training
Network is offering five Early-Stage Researcher (pre-doctoral) and two
Experienced Researcher (post-doctoral) positions, to start in February
2014. The application deadline for these posts is 15th December 2013.

This is a rare opportunity to be involved in a highly prestigious
European training network for outstanding applicants in an emergent and
important research area, led by internationally leading groups in their
fields!

ESSENCE conducts research and provides research training in various
aspects of translating human capabilities for negotiating meaning to
open computational environments such as the web, multi-robot systems,
and sensor networks. The network will support 15 pre- and post-doctoral
fellows who will work toward a set of different research projects within
this overall theme, ranging from symbol grounding and ontological
reasoning to game-theoretic models of communication and crowdsourcing.

ESSENCE involves a top-quality consortium of internationally leading
research institutions which will act as hosts for the following projects
in the current recruitment round:

Early-Stage Researchers (36 months):
- Communication Planning (CISA, Informatics, The University of
  Edinburgh, UK)
- Concept Convergence: Argumentation and Agreement over Meaning
  (IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
- The Social Construction of Conceptual Space (ILLC, Universiteit van
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Sociolinguistics and Network Games (ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam,
  The Netherlands)
- Open-ended Robot Interaction (AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
  Belgium)

Early-Stage Researchers must, at the time of recruitment by the host
organisation be in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent research
experience) of their research careers, and not yet have a doctoral
degree.

Experienced Researchers (24 months):
- The ESSENCE Platform: Architecture (CISA, Informatics, The University
  of Edinburgh, UK)
- The ESSENCE Challenge (Information Engineering and Computer Science,
  Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy)

Experienced Researchers must (at the time of recruitment by the host
organisation) be in possession of a doctoral degree, or have at least
four years of full-time equivalent research experience, and have less
than five years of full-time equivalent research experience (including
time spent on doctoral research).

For both categories, research experience is measured from the date when
they obtained the degree which formally entitled them to embark on a
doctorate.

All positions are very competitively remunerated (significantly above
the respective average national salaries/studentships for pre- and
post-doctoral positions) and aimed at outstanding candidates. Please
consult the individual descriptions of projects at
http://www.essence-network.eu/hiring for detailled salary information.

Researchers can be of any nationality, though at the time of recruitment
by the host organisation, researchers must not have resided or carried
out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of their
host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately
prior to the reference date. (Short stays such as holidays and/or
compulsory national service are not taken into account.)

All applicants are asked to pre-apply at
http://www.essence-network.eu/hiring. Please contact Dr Michael Rovatsos
(mrovatso at inf.ed.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

Fausto Giunchiglia

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