Senin, 24 September 2007

Research Positions in Grid Computing (Innsbruck, Austria)

University of Innsbruck, Austria
Funded Research Positions for Postdoctoral and Doctoral Students in
Grid Computing

The Institute of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck,
Austria, invites applications for Phd students and Postdocs in the
Distributed and Parallel Systems Group (DPS).

Your areas of interest should comprise:

Application development and runtime environments
Program analysis, scheduling and optimizations
Resource management and monitoring of computing infrastructures
Data mining and provenance
Semantic Web technologies and ontologies
Information systems

Prerequisite: applicants must hold a master or equivalent degree in
computer science.

Profile of our group: DPS participates among others in the
following Grid projects: EU CoreGRID, EU EC-GIN, EU edutain@grid,
EU EGEE 1 – 3, and Austrian Grid.

Language skills: English; Note that the working and study language
is English. The entire course and research programme is held in
English only. There is no need to learn German for this position.

The City of Innsbruck, which hosted the olympic winter games twice,
is located in the beautiful surroundings of the Tyrolean Alps. The
combination of the Alpine environment and the urban life in this
historically grown town provides a high quality of living.

The university has a long tradition dating back to the 16th
century, and, with seven schools (Theology, Law, Economics and
Social Sciences, Medicine, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Civil
Engineering and Architecture), it offers a wide spectrum of research
and teaching activities and interesting opportunities for
interdisciplinary collaboration. Besides, the Country of Tyrol
strongly supports various initiatives in the IT domain.

Applications can be submitted anytime. There is no deadline. Please
direct questions and your application to:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Fahringer
Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck
Technikerstr. 21a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Email: Thomas.Fahringer@uibk.ac.at
URL: dps.uibk.ac.at