Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Data Curation at Trinity College Dublin

Hi All,

the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group [1], School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin is seeking a full-time researcher for the ALIGNED H2020 project [2] in Software and Data Engineering for large scale historical dataset curation.

The role will be part of a self-managing team developing the Dacura data curation platform [3] in conjunction with Humanities and Social Science researchers from The Evolution Institute's Seshat: Global History Databank [4]. Within ALIGNED we will work with other leading European universities and enterprises to develop aligned methods of data and software engineering for web-scale systems.

The ideal candidate will have a PhD and an excellent research track record in a relevant field (semantics, digital humanities, web technologies, statistical NLP, HCI, information retrieval) and strong web programming skills.

This is a 2 year contract position with a salary between €40,003k and €46,255k, depending on skills and experience.

Full details on the post are here: http://kdeg.cs.tcd.ie/aligned-project-post-doctoral-research-fellow

Deadline for applications: 8 Dec 2014

Send a CV and covering letter to: rob.brennan@cs.tcd.ie

best regards

Rob Brennan

Senior Research Fellow & ALIGNED Project Co-ordinator

Knowledge and Data Engineering Group
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

[1] http://kdeg.cs.tcd.ie/
[2] http://www.aligned-project.eu/
[3] http://dacura.cs.tcd.ie/
[4] http://evolution-institute.org/seshat