[AISWorld] Associate Professor of Information Systems at University of Tartu

[Marlon Dumas]

We invite applications from promising early-to-mid-career academics for 
a full-time permanent position of Associate Professor of Information 
Systems at University of Tartu's Institute of Computer Science - 
https://www.cs.ut.ee/en/

In addition to teaching (one course per semester) and supervising 
students, the successful candidate will be an active member of our 
Software Engineering and Information Systems research group - 
http://sep.cs.ut.ee/. The group conducts leading-edge research in the 
fields of business process management, process mining, software 
analytics and software processes. In the past ten years, the group has 
earned seven best paper or distinguished paper awards, two best demo 
awards, and three test-of-time awards at international conferences (BPM, 
ER, ICSSP, RuleML+RR, MODELS).

We welcome candidates with a background in any sub-field of Information 
Systems, including but not limited to requirements engineering, 
information systems analysis and design, business process management, 
business data analytics, social network analysis, information system 
architectures, information systems security and privacy, or related topics.

University of Tartu is the leading higher education and research centre 
in Estonia, with more than 15000 students and 1800 academic staff. It is 
also the highest ranked university in the Baltic States according to 
both the Times Higher Education and the QS World University rankings. 
University of Tartu's Institute of Computer Science hosts 900 Bachelors 
and Masters students and 70 doctoral students. The institute has a 
strong international orientation: over 40% of graduate students and a 
quarter of academic and research staff members are international. 
Graduate teaching in the institute is in English.

Estonia is an open, modern, and advanced society, reputed for its 
leadership in digital society development, its economic and press 
freedom, and its robust and dynamic tech startup scene. Tartu is 
historically the University town of Estonia, with a population of 
100,000 including close to 20% of students.

The appointment will be permanent. The starting salary will be 3000 
euros per month, gross. Estonia applies a flat income tax of 20% on 
salaries. On top of the salary, the university pays social tax, which 
opens rights to free public health insurance, maternity / paternity 
benefits, and pension benefits. Other benefits include 56 days of annual 
leave and a sabbatical semester per 5-years period of appointment. 
Relocation support will be provided if applicable.

Besides access to EU funding instruments, Estonia has a merit-based 
national research funding system that enables high-performing scholars 
to create sustainable research groups, including a "starting grants" 
scheme for early-career researchers, as well as the possibility of 
supervising PhD students with state-funded PhD scholarships.

The starting date is negotiable, preferably in August 2020.

The deadline for applications is 2 December 2019. Further details about 
the position, including formal requirements and application procedure 
can be found at: http://www.cs.ut.ee/en/jobs