Post-Doc in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining at GESIS Cologne

We are seeking for a Post-Doc in Knowledge Discovery and Data

Mining for the department Computational Social Science at GESIS
in Cologne, Germany.

GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Science is an internationally
active social science institute belonging to the Leibniz Association.
It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
(BMBF) and the Federal States.

The GESIS department for Computational Social Science (CSS) in
Cologne is seeking a Post-Doc in Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining (TV-L 13, 100%, initially for 4 years)

to join the Knowledge Discovery team at GESIS - Leibniz Institute
for Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany in collaboration with University
of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

<http://www.gesis.org/en/institute/gesis-scientificdepartments/computational-social-science/>

The ideal candidate has experience in one or several of the following fields:

    social tagging and algorithms for annotation, linked data & semantic web
    Information extraction, data mining and metadata enrichment
    Machine Learning, classification & clustering of textual resources
    Crawling and processing of web-scale (academic) data sets
    Large-scale data processing environments and studies

The candidate is expected to conduct cutting-edge applied research in one or several of the following domains:

    Digital libraries and science 2.0 information systems
    Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    Big Data and Linked Data
    Social computation and computational social science

The candidate should have completed (or should soon complete) a
PhD in Computer Science. The ideal candidate has a demonstrated
record of independently designing and conducting research and
publishing results in competitive conferences and journals. The open
position is intended to serve as a platform for promising young
researchers (i) to strengthen and develop their own research profile,
(ii) to conduct and publish highly competitive research, (iii) to acquire
research grants and (iv) to apply their research outcomes in real-world
platforms with thousands of unique users per week.

GESIS offers an exciting environment for interdisciplinary and
competitive research on the intersection between computer-,
information- and social sciences. GESIS is a research and service
organization that provides a research-driven infrastructure for the
social sciences and closely collaborates with computer science and
social science departments at top universities in Europe and Northern
America. Candidates with a strong research record will qualify for
extensive allowances for research visits and collaborations with
partnering universities. There is an opportunity for the candidate
to participate in teaching as well as to pursue a habilitation (a
qualification for Full Professor positions in some European countries)
at University of Koblenz-Landau. Cologne is a culturally diverse and
vibrant city (the 4th largest city in Germany with about 1 Mio. people)
in the heart of Europe attracting young and creative people from
all over the world.

GESIS guarantees that guidelines regarding employment laws for
the disabled and handicapped as well as laws and regulations
governing part-time employment will be observed. GESIS is an
equal opportunity employer and is certified by the European
work & family audit.

GESIS guarantees that guidelines regarding employment laws for
the disabled and handicapped as well as laws and regulations
governing part-time employment will be observed. GESIS is an
equal opportunity employer and is certified by the European
work & family audit.

For more information and details, please feel free to contact
Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier at strohmaier@uni-koblenz.de or
markus.strohmaier@gesis.org.

We only process online applications. Please apply here until
14.02.2014 or until the position is filled:

<https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HP/P_shorts/Now_Candid.aspx?jo=70397>
(select English)

The key number is: CSS-02