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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Post-doctoral research opportunity at the University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia is offering a postdoctoral research fellow position with a 2-year appointment funded by the Australian Research Council. The chief investigators for this project are Professor Justin Zobel and Associate Professor Karin Verspoor in the Department of Computing and Information Systems in the Melbourne School of Engineering.

The successful applicant will participate in the development of methods for evaluating data quality in bioinformatics databases. The project will apply text mining, information retrieval, and natural language processing strategies to identify supporting evidence for structured database facts in the biomedical literature. The position is located in the Department of Computing and Information Systems in the Melbourne School of Engineering and will be expected to be an active member of the Department, collaborating with other researchers. The University offers a leading and robust research environment that is internationally engaged and recognised, community focused, and with many outstanding areas of research strength.

The University plan seeks to increase the diversity of the workforce and the representation of women in areas they have been traditionally under-represented. The School is seeking to increase the representation of women in the academic workforce across engineering disciplines, and strongly encourages applications from suitably qualified female candidates.

Applications must be submitted through the University web site, job number 0038943: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/885611/research-fellow.

Please note the closing date of 07 April 2015. All enquiries to Karin Verspoor (karin.verspoor@unimelb.edu.au).





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