[AISWorld] Funded PhD student and PostDoc positions in the Netherlands and Austria

[hr at sti2.at]

***PhD student and PostDoc positions***


Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck (www.sti-innsbruck.at) is 
a leading research group in semantic technology at the Department of 
Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, engaged in 
research and development to bring information and communication 
technologies of the future into today`s world.

Wageningen University & Research (www.wur.nl), the Netherlands, is fully 
engaged in developments of new technology for education and research. We 
are developing artificial intelligence, data science, robotics, 
sensoring and decision support, data infrastructures, visualization and 
other technologies. Our aim is to employ these developments in 
innovations in environment, food, nutrition and health, animal and plant 
science, and social sciences. We are convinced that new technology will 
transform these domains and open up new possibilities towards the 
sustainable development goals.

We are currently looking for candidates for the following positions:

PhD Students, PostDocs

We are searching for new team members (primarily PhD students) to 
collaborate with us on the funded projects:

- European Commission-funded project (Horizon 2020) smashHit: Smart 
Dispatcher for Secure and Controlled Sharing of Distributed Personal and 
Industrial Data aims to assure trusted and secure sharing of data 
streams from both personal and industrial platforms, needed to build 
sectorial and cross-sectorial services, by establishing a framework for 
processing of data owner consent and legal rules and effective 
contracting, as well as joint security and privacy-preserving 
mechanisms.
- European Commission-funded project (Horizon 2020) OntoCommons: 
Ontology-driven data documentation for Industry Commons aims to bring 
together and coordinate activities of the most relevant EU stakeholders 
for the development of an Ontology Commons EcoSystem, consisting of 
ontologies and tools following specific standardization rules, that can 
be effectively used as foundation for data documentation in the 
industrial domain, in order to facilitate data sharing and valorisation 
and overcome the existing interoperability bottlenecks.
- Interreg funded project KI-Net: building blocks for AI-based 
optimization in industrial production develops a cross-border competence 
network that examines, researches and develops, presents, and builds 
basic building blocks for AI-based optimizations in industrial 
manufacturing, thus making it easier for SMEs to access the targeted use 
of AI in production and maintenance processes.
- Eurostars funded project WordLift New Generation aims to expand 
WordLift's market reach by creating a new platform to deliver the 
features offered today to WordPress users, to any websites regardless of 
the CMS. We plan to improve the backend's performance enabling 
enrichment and querying of RDF graphs with semantic similarity indices 
and full-text search allowing clients to implement semantic search and 
content recommendations on their website; integrate with personal 
digital assistants such as Amazon Alexa.
- FFG-funded project (IKT der Zukunft - Ausschreibung DE-AT 
Datenwirtschaft) CampaNeo: Platform for Real-time Vehicle Data Campaigns 
develops an open platform on which private and public institutions can 
create campaigns and collect and analyze vehicle data in real-time.

We offer:

- Work and study locations with the highest living standards and amazing 
nature.
- Possibility to perform computer science research on cutting-edge 
applied topics of global significance, at one of the best-ranked 
universities in Austria and the best-ranked university of the 
Netherlands.
- Direct cooperation with the most important and large European 
technology industry (Volkswagen AG, Germany; Atos Spain; LexisNexis, 
UK/Ireland), innovative start-up companies, as well as city 
administrations, legal experts, and academic institutions, and 
potentially the industry of the "Food Valley" (e.g. Unilever, Campina in 
the Netherlands).
- PhD education in English at a leading university, free of charge.
- Competitive salaries: starting yearly (brutto) salary for a PhD 
student position is 41 601 Euro, and 55 243 Euro for a PostDoc, in case 
of full-time employment.
- Part-time employment is possible.
- Flexible working hours, work location choice, and other university 
employment benefits (see: 
https://www.uibk.ac.at/universitaet/zusatzleistungen/index.html.en)

Responsibilities:
- Conduction of world-class research
- Publishing in top journals
- Writing of further research papers (for workshops, conferences) and 
project reports
- Participation and presentation in conferences, meetings
- Implementation of research project(s)
- Writing a doctoral dissertation (for PhD students)
- Proposal writing and funding acquisition
- Supervision of students
- Training and further education
- Administrative tasks

Required qualifications:

- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or an 
equivalent relevant degree (for PhD students), PhD/doctoral degree (for 
PostDocs)
- Research interest and experience in areas such as Semantic Technology, 
Knowledge Graphs, (Semantic) Web Services, (Research) Data 
Infrastructures, Data Value Chain, Explainable AI, Smart Contracting and 
Blockchain, Rule-based Systems, Sensor Data Processing and Modelling, 
Online Communication and Marketing, as well as in interdisciplinary work 
involving life sciences, health, sustainability, ethics, legal, 
economic, social and behavioural sciences
- Experience in programming e.g. Java, Python, Web frameworks such as 
Angular, machine learning frameworks, and/or other relevant technologies
- Very good English language skills
- Willingness to work in international, geographically distributed teams
- Willingness to combine formal research with real-world practice in 
national and international projects

Application:

Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a list of 
publications (when available), a research statement, and be sent via 
email (text, postscript or PDF only) to hr at sti2.at.

The thesis and project work will be supervised by Dr. Anna Fensel, who 
is associate professor at Wageningen University & Research and associate 
professor at University of Innsbruck. Questions about the positions can 
be sent to her at anna.fensel at wur.nl.

Additional information regarding our organizations' research and 
projects, and further relevant information is available at 
www.sti-innsbruck.at and www.wur.nl.