Ph.D. / PostDoc Positions at L3S, Germany

[Wolfgang Nejdl]

The L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany, invites applications for

		 2 PostDoc and 4 Ph.D. research positions

in the context of two new international research projects which start in 2008
in our Search and Semantic Web / Digital Library groups at L3S. The LiWA
EU/IST Project focuses on searching, enriching and managing Web Archives, the
OKKAM EU/IST Integrated Project on entity and object-based infrastructures for
the (Semantic) Web.

Your research will focus on topics in the following areas

    * Data and Information Integration
    * Terminology and Schema Evolution
    * Information and Concept Extraction
    * Search for Information, Objects and Entities
    * Data Mining and Statistical Analysis
    * Social Media and Blog Analysis

in a challenging and unique research environment. 

You should possess good knowledge in one or several areas relevant for the
topics specified in this announcement. This includes database technology,
machine learning, information retrieval, Semantic Web technology, as well as
statistical and natural language methods for information extraction and
retrieval.

Good proficiency in English is expected, as well as an outstanding M.Sc. or
Ph.D. in computer science.  German language skills are useful, but not
mandatory.  The salary amounts to German TV-L E13/E14, which is roughly 40.000
to 50.000 Euro gross income per year.

Please submit your application including the usual documents as well as a list
of references, preferrably by email, to

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl
L3S Research Center
Appelstrasse 9a
30167 Hannover, Germany
http://www.L3S.de/
http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~nejdl/
E-Mail: nejdl at L3S.de