Open positions: PhD Student, PostDoc and Scientific Programmer - STI Innsbruck

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PhD Student, PostDoc and Scientific Programmer - STI Innsbruck


 


 


 


Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck


Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria


 


 


 

STI Innsbruck is a research institute at the  <http://www.uibk.ac.at/>
University of Innsbruck engaged in research and development of semantic
technologies. Focus is on the increased automatisation of content and
service delivery. STI Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the
following positions:

 

 

PhD student

PostDoc/Senior Researcher

Scientific Programmer

 

 

We are searching for new staff to help us in projects such as:

 

.        E-Freight facilitates the use of different transport modes on their
own and in combination, to obtain an optimal and sustainable utilisation of
European freight transport resources using semantic technologies.

.        Envision provides an ENVIronmental Services Infrastructure with
Ontologies that support users in the process of discovery and adaptive
chaining and composition of environmental services.

.        MSEE: The first Grand Challenge for MSEE project is to make SSME
(Service Science Management and Engineering) evolve towards Manufacturing
Systems and Factories of the Future. 

.        PeerAssist: The main scope of this project is the
conceptualization, design, implementation and demonstration of a flexible
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) platform, which will allow people to build virtual
communities dynamically based on interests and needs they share.

.        PlanetData: The main aim of PlanetData is to establish an
interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers, helping
organizations to expose their data on the Web in a useful way.

.        RENDER: The RENDER project addresses the challenges arising when
analyzing the dynamics of online information. RENDER will provide a
comprehensive conceptual framework and technological infrastructure for
enabling, supporting, managing and exploiting information diversity in
Web-based environments.

.        SUPPORT aims to raise the current level of port security by
integrating legacy port systems with new surveillance and information
management systems using semantic technology.

 

 

Furthermore our researchers continuously acquire new projects.

 

 

We offer:

 

*	The stimulating environment of a research institute in the fields of
Semantic Web, Ontology Engineering, Semantic Web Services, Semantic
Technologies beyond the Web, Service-Oriented Architectures, and formal
languages.
*	Long-term collaboration with well-known academic institutions and
major companies around the world.
*	A multicultural working place with state-of-the-art infrastructure,
a competitive salary and resources including funding for attending
international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools, etc.

 

 

To apply:

Applicants should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a list of
publications, a research statement and the names and addresses of at least
three referees, via email (text, postscript or PDF only) to
<mailto:hr@sti2.at> hr@sti2.at 

 

Additional information regarding our organization's research and projects,
and further information concerning this position is available at
<http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/> http://www.sti-innsbruck.at.