Open Position
Assistant Professorship (Assistenzprofessur, tenure track)
at the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria in the field of Algorithms.
The Rectorate of the University of Salzburg invites applications for a full-time tenure track assistant professorship at the Department of Computer Sciences in the field of Algorithms.
Begin: March 1st, 2017.
The successful candidate is expected to conduct independent research on high quality level in one or more of the following areas: parallel and distributed algorithms, algorithm engineering, algorithmic game theory, approximation algorithms, online algorithms, streaming algorithms; Furthermore, it is expected that the candidate will be active in the acquisition of third-party funding as well as in students supervision.
Within the first two years of employment, the University of Salzburg will offer a “qualification agreement”. It is expected that the candidate completes his/her habilitation within the first four years after the qualification agreement is signed.
In case the goals of this agreement are met, the employment (first limited to a period of at most 6 years) will be made permanent and the title of the employee will be changed to “Associate Professor” (assoziierte/r ProfessorIn).
The appointee is expected to possess a PhD in Computer Science or Discrete Mathematics and to have an excellent publication record in at least one area of algorithms.
Desired qualifications:
- Postdoc experience
- experience in teaching
- experience in acquisition of third party funding
- strengths, creativity, team-working ability
Applications are to be sent to the Rector of the University of Salzburg, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heinrich Schmidinger, Personalabteilung, Kapitelgasse 4, 5020 Salzburg.
The application should include an academic CV containing all publications, as well as names and email addresses of at least three references. The reference number A0050/1-2016 should be mentioned in the cover letter.
The closing date is July 27, 2016. An official announcement of the job opening will appear in the “Mitteilungsblätter der Universität Salzburg”. Informal inquiries may be addressed to Prof. Dr. Robert Elsässer (robert.elsaesser@sbg.ac.at).