PhD position - WU Institute for Information Systems and New Media - Vienna Austria

Dear Semantic Web Community,

A 6 year Teaching and Research Associate (PhD) position is available at 
the Institute for Information Systems and New Media institute 
<https://nm.wu.ac.at/nm/>, which is part of the Department of 
Information Systems and Operations Management <https://www.wu.ac.a 
/en/isom/> at the Vienna University of Economics and Business 
<https://www.wu.ac.at/>.

*What to expect*

- Writing a dissertation: As part of a WU-PhD course you will be 
investigating your research topic and spending a third of your working 
hours on writing your dissertation.

- Participation in research and teaching at the institute in German and 
English

- Guided implementation of courses

- Independent scientific work

- Participation in organizational and administrative tasks at the institute

*What you have to offer*

- Completed a master's degree, which entitles you to enroll in a PhD 
program, in one of the following subject areas: Computer Science, 
Business Informatics (Information Systems; Business Informatics; Data 
Science); Information Technology; Software Engineering; Social and 
Economic Sciences (with a focus on applied Computer Science; Data 
Science; Business Informatics)

- An interest in scientific work and teaching at the Institute for 
Information Systems and New Media whose research focus includes:

- Distributed and Decentralized Systems: internet architectures, 
semantic technologies, knowledge graphs.

- Software Engineering: internet-based, scalable information systems, 
development and empirical studies of development languages and methods, 
security and privacy.

- Complex Systems: network science, social network analysis, 
computational social science and data science.

- A solid technology oriented academic background: excellent study 
results; technical knowledge of at least one programming languages (such 
as C++, Java or Python); hands on experience working with structured 
data formats (such as JSON, XML and/or RDF); experience working with 
query languages (such as SQL, SPARQL, or graph query languages).

- Willingness to use multimedia teaching methods: You have experience in 
using multimedia teaching and learning formats or are at least willing 
to learn.

- Other required skills: Proficiency in German and English

Additional details, including a link to the WU job portal, can be found 
here: https://www.wu.ac.at/karriere/arbeiten-an-der-wu/jobangebot /?yid=1688

Best Regards,
Sabrina

-- 
Senior Assistant Professor,
Institute for Information Systems & New Media,
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel: +43-1-31336-4494
E-mail: sabrina.kirrane [at] wu.ac.at
Homepage: http://sabrinakirrane.com

Received on Thursday, 23 March 2023 08:44:06 UTC