PhD student position at University of Leipzig

PhD student position is open at the chair of Business Information
Systems at Universität Leipzig:

For the BmbF (German Ministry of Education and Research) funded 
cooperative project SoftWiki we are looking for a PhD student with 
interest in Semantic Web research and Web application development.

The aim of the SoftWiki project is to empower distributed, communities
of domain experts, knowledge engineers and end users to collaborate on a
semantic level. The application domain of the project is Software
Engineering in particular Requirements Engineering. However, the role of
University of Leipzig in the project is to develop generic means of
scalable, Web based semantic collaboration, with respect to current
trends in Web technologies, such as folksonomies, blogs and semantic wikis.

Candidates should have/be:

* excellent knowledge of Web technologies,
* be familiar with the Semantic Web knowledge representation standards,
* experiences with Web application development,
* good software engineering skills,
* fluent English and at least basic German.

Compensation will be either as a Research Assistant (Wiss.
Mitarbeiter/in, BAT IIa/2) or PhD scholarship (approx. 1200 €). Possible 
start is 1st of June or later.

Leipzig is an attractive metropolis in eastern Germany, with a lively 
cultural, scientific and economic scenes.

Send a CV, a motivation letter including your research interests and two
references (with email addresses) to aksw@informatik.uni-leipzig.de.


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Sören Auer - University of Leipzig - Dept. of Computer Science
http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer, +49 (341) 97-32323

Received on Wednesday, 12 April 2006 17:50:49 UTC