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

[Marlon Dumas]

The Institute of Computer Science of University of Tartu invites 
applications from promising early-to-mid-career academics for a 
full-time permanent position of Associate Professor of Information Systems.

The successful candidate will have a PhD in a relevant discipline, a 
solid research track record in Information Systems, and a demonstrated 
record of excellence in teaching and student supervision. Candidates 
with a background in Web information systems, information retrieval, 
data and knowledge engineering, or business process management are 
particularly welcome.

With 14000 students and 1800 academic staff, University of Tartu is the 
highest ranked university in the Baltic States according to both the QS 
World University ranking and THE ranking. University of Tartu's 
Institute of Computer Science hosts 900+ Bachelors and Masters students 
and 60 doctoral students. Ranked as the #3 CS department in Central and 
Eastern Europe, the institute is home to internationally recognized 
research groups in the fields of information systems, software 
engineering, data science, distributed systems, bioinformatics, and 
information security. The institute delivers Bachelors, Masters and PhD 
programs in Computer Science, as well as specialized Masters programs in 
software engineering, technology management, cyber-security, and 
security and cloud computing, in cooperation with other leading 
universities in Estonia and Scandinavia. The institute has a strong 
international orientation: about one-third of graduate students and 
one-third of academic and research staff members are international. 
Graduate teaching in the institute is in English.

The duties of an Associate Professor at University of Tartu include 
conducting research, attracting and implementing research projects, 
research student supervision, graduate and undergraduate teaching (one 
course per semester) and curriculum development. The successful 
candidate will develop an independent research agenda within the 
Software Engineering & Information Systems research group. The group is 
composed of 25 members, including 12 PhD students. The group places a 
strong emphasis on research excellence, quality of its research 
publications and research prototypes, and scientific reproducibility. In 
the past five years, members of the group have received eight best paper 
and best demo awards at international conferences, including ER, CAiSE, 
and BPM. For more information, see: https://sep.cs.ut.ee

The appointment will be permanent. The starting salary will be between 
3000 and 3500 euros per month, gross. Estonia applies a flat income tax 
of 20% on salaries and provides public health insurance for employees. 
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 and 
the possibility of supervising PhD students with state-funded PhD 
scholarships.

The starting date is negotiable, between August and December 2019.

The deadline for applications is 4 February 2019. Further details about 
the position and the application procedure can be found at: 
http://www.cs.ut.ee/en/jobs