Professorship Announcement

[Nicola OLIVETTI]

PROFESSOR POSITION VACANCY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AIX-MARSEILLES III


The University of Aix-Marseilles III seeks a strong candidate in computer
science, with a preferred expertise  in the area of Artificial Intelligence.
Applicants must either have acquired the French "qualification aux fonctions de
professeur" (see http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/pid20610/les-enseignants-chercheurs.html)
or must already have a Professor position, or they must have a Ph.D. and have a
provable academic experience corresponding to an Associate Professor/Lecturer
position. The Scientific Council of the university will anyway validate
candidate’s credentials who do not have the above mentioned French
qualification.


NATURE OF THE POSITION AND ACADEMIC CONTEXT

The vacancy is a permanent position in the Faculty of Sciences of the
University of Aix-Marseille III. The successful candidate will be appointed to
the degree PR2 with a possibility of further carrier.

Note that the University of Aix-Marseille is one of the ten French universities
selected by the French government for special research development in the next
future (CAMPUS Project); this prominent status will benefit the academic staff
by increased funding and facilities.


RESEARCH

The successful candidate will integrate the laboratoire  CNRS LSIS (Laboratoire
des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmehttp://www.lsis.org) of
Marseilles.

The LSIS is (one of) the largest research institution in computer science in
Marseilles, its research activities stetch from computer science, to robotics,
to automation and control, and to image processing.

This appointment is aimed to reinforce the research activities in Computer
Science of LSIS, notably those ones in the area of Artificial Intelligence,
with a particular interest to algorithmic aspects of IA (constraint
satisfaction, SAT) and/or knowledge representation/automated reasoning. The
successful candidate is expected to integrate the INCA team of LSIS
(seewww.lsis.org/spip.php?id_rubrique=67) whose main research activities cover
the above mentioned subareas of IA.


TEACHING

The appointed professor will take part to the teaching programs in computer
science of the Faculty of Science, both at the undergraduate and graduate
level. His/Her teaching charges at undergraduate level will cover standard
courses in computer science. (S)he is expected to teach in French. 


HOW TO APPLY

Candidates must register electronically and confirm their candidature on the
site
http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid22713/galaxie.html   before 
March 25, 2010.

They must also send their application dossier to the following address: 

Universite Paul Cezanne - Aix-Marseille 3
Direction des Ressources Humaines
3, avenue Robert Schuman
13628 Aix en Provence Cedex 1
France

no later than March 25, 2010 (postal stamp).
Their application dossier must be in French or in English with a short CV in French. 


CONTACTS

For further information, please contact:

Philippe Jegou,philippe.jegou at univ-cezanne.fr

Nicola Olivetti,nicola.oliveti at univ-cezanne.fr