[Jobinfo] Fwd: Saarland University is looking for several Junior Research Group Leaders in the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction

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>From: Philipp Slusallek <slusallek@cs.uni-sb.de>
>Organization: DFKI Saarbrücken & Saarland Universit
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>Hi,
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>This might be interesting to a few people on the list.
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>All the best,
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>         Philipp
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>Saarland University is seeking to establish several
>
>Junior Research Groups (W1/W2)
>
>within the recently established Cluster of Excellence “œMultimodal
>Computing and Interactionâ€Â which was established by tthe German Research
>Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative.
>
>The term “multimodalâ€Â describes tes the different types of digital
>information such as text, speech, images, video, graphics, and
>high-dimensional data, and the way it is perceived and communicated,
>particularly through vision, hearing, and human expression. The
>challenge is now to organize, understand, and search this multimodal
>information in a robust, efficient and intelligent way, and to create
>dependable systems that allow natural and intuitive multimodal
>interaction. We are looking for highly motivated young researchers with
>a background in the research areas of the cluster, including algorithmic
>foundations, secure and autonomous networked systems, open science web,
>information processing in the life sciences, visual computing,
>large-scale virtual environments, synthetic virtual characters, text and
>speech processing and multimodal dialog systems. Additional information
>on the Cluster of Excellence is available on
>http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de. Group leaders will receive junior
>faculty status at Saarland University, including the right to supervise
>Bachelor, Master and PhD students. Positions are limited to five years.
>
>Applicants for W1 positions (phase I of the program) must have completed
>an outstanding PhD. Upon successful evaluation after two years, W1 group
>leaders are eligible for promotion to W2. Direct applicants for W2
>positions (phase II of the program) must have completed a postdoc stay
>and must have demonstrated outstanding research potential and the
>ability to successfully lead their own research group. Junior research
>groups are equipped with a budget of 80k to 100k Euros per year to cover
>research personnel and other costs.
>
>Saarland University has leading departments in computer science and
>computational linguistics, with more than 200 PhD students working on
>topics related to the cluster (see http://www.informatik-saarland.de for
>additional information). The German Excellence Initiative recently
>awarded multi-million grants to the Cluster of Excellence ‬œMultimodal
>Computing and Interactionâ€Â as well as to the â“Saarbrücken 
>Graduate
>School of Computer Scienceâ€Â. An important factor to tthis success were
>the close ties to the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, the
>German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and the Max
>Planck Institute for Software Systems which are co-located on the same
>campus.
>
>Candidates should submit their application (curriculum vitae,
>photograph, list of publications, short research plan, copies of degree
>certificates, copies of the five most important publications, list of
>five references) to the coordinator of the cluster, Prof. Hans-Peter
>Seidel, MPI for Computer Science, Campus E1 4, 66123 Saarbrücken,
>Germany. Please, also send your application as a single PDF file to
>applications@mmci.uni-saarland.de.
>
>The review of applications will begin on January 15, 2009, and
>applicants are strongly encouraged to submit applications by that date;
>however, applications will continue to be accepted until January 31,
>2009. Final decisions will be made following a candidate symposium that
>will be held during March 9 â€â€œ 13, 2009.
>Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with
>its policy of increasing the proportion of women in this type of
>employment, the University actively encourages applications from women.
>For candidates with equal qualification, preference will be given to
>people with physical disabilities.
>
>
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