[Asis-l] Reserach Assistant - University of Hildesheim - PhD position

[Thomas Mandl]

The Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Dept. for Information Science and 
Natural Language Processing offers a position as

Research Assistant
(TV-L E 13, 100%)
for three years

to develop a PhD thesis within ongoing projects and research fields of 
the Dept. for Information Science and Natural Language Processing. The 
teaching load of the position is 4 hours per week.

Starting date: October 1st, 2016

Job Requirements:

₋    a degree in Information Science or a related field (Master, 
Magister or Diplom)
₋    ability to work independently and to work in a small team environment
₋    willingness to engage in interdisciplinary research work
₋    excellent knowledge of English (good knowledge of German is also 
desired)
₋    programming skills (e.g. JAVA, C++, XML, GUI development)

₋    Knowledge in some of the following areas:
₋    (Multimedia) Information Retrieval
₋    Digital Humanities (especially Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis)
₋    Patent information systems
₋    Information Behaviour and analysis of information needs
₋    Usability, User Experience and Visualisation of Information Processes

The Endowment University of Hildesheim is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity employer. Members of the underrepresented gender are 
encouraged to apply.

Applications from applicants with a disability will be given preference 
if equally qualified.
For further enquiries please contact:
Prof. Dr. Christa Womser-Hacker, E-Mail: womser at uni-hildesheim.de.

The application should include the typical material (Cover Letter, CV, 
transcripts, publications).

Closing Date: July 17, 2016

Reference: Kennziffer 2016/63

Please send your application by mail to: An den Präsidenten der 
Universität Hildesheim, Dezernat für Personal- und 
Rechtsangelegenheiten, Universitätsplatz 1, 31141 Hildesheim, Germany

We will send application documents back to you, if you attach a stamped, 
self-addressed return envelope.
Acknowledgments of receipt / intermediate messages are not sent.