Työnimike: Postdoctoral/Project/Early Stage Researcher

Työnkuvaus:
The University of Eastern Finland, UEF, is one of the largest multidisciplinary universities in Finland. We offer education in nearly one hundred major subjects, and are home to approximately 15,000 students and 2,800 members of staff. We operate on three campuses in Joensuu, Kuopio and Savonlinna. In international rankings, we are ranked among the leading 300 universities in the world. The Faculty of Science and Forestry operates on the Kuopio and Joensuu campuses of the University of Eastern Finland. The mission of the faculty is to carry out internationally recognised scientific research and to offer research-education in the fields of natural sciences and forest sciences. The faculty invests in all of the strategic research areas of the university. The faculty's environments for research and learning are international, modern and multidisciplinary. The faculty has approximately 3,800 Bachelor's and Master's degree students and some 490 postgraduate students. The number of staff amounts to 560. http://www.uef.fi/en/uef/lumet We are now inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Project Researcher and an Early Stage Researcher (Quantitative Photoacoustic Imaging) positions, Department of Applied Physics, Kuopio campus We are seeking for two highly motivated researchers to work on modelling and/or inverse problem of photoacoustic tomography. The researchers will work in Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation funded project on quantitative photoacoustic imaging. The positions will be located at Computational Physics and Inverse Problems research field in the Department of Applied Physics (Kuopio campus). The group is affiliated with the Centre of Excellence in Inverse Problems Research of the Academy of Finland, and it belongs to the strategic research area Methods and Applications of Uncertainty Modelling of the University of Eastern Finland. A person to be appointed as a postdoctoral researcher/project researcher shall hold a suitable doctoral degree (e.g. applied mathematics, scientific computing, applied/computational physics. If the employee has been awarded his or her doctoral degree less than five years ago, the post will be one of a Postdoctoral Researcher. If the doctoral degree has been awarded more than five years ago, the post will be one of a Project Researcher. The early stage researcher (doctoral student) position may be applied for by persons who are eligible for studies leading to a scientific postgraduate degree i.e. he or she has a Masters degree (or equivalent) in relevant fields (e.g. applied mathematics, scientific computing, applied/computational physics). Persons graduating in the near future are also encouraged to apply. However, they are expected to hold a relevant MSc degree (or equivalent) by the starting date of the early stage researcher position. Early Stage Researcher positions are always filled for a fixed term. A successful candidates for the positions are expected to have a strong background on inverse problems and/or scientific computing, good programming skills on some commonly used programming languages (e.g. Matlab, Python, C/C++), fluent written and spoken English, ability to work both independently and as part of a team, and strong interest in research. Experience on light transport modelling is viewed as a benefit. The positions will first be filled for a fixed term of 12 months as agreed, possibility for prolongation for two years. The continuation of the position will be agreed separately. The start date of the positions is 1 January, 2017 or as agreed. The salary ofthe postdoctoral researcher/project researcher position is determined in accordance with the salary system of Finnish universities and is based on level 5 of the job requirement level chart for teaching and research staff (€2,865,30/ month). In addition to the job requirement component, the salary includes a personal performance component, which may be a maximum of 46.3% of the job requirement component. The salary of

Työnantajan nimi: Itä-Suomen yliopisto

Työnantajan osoite: 70211 KUOPIO

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Työn lyhyt kuvaus: Yliopistojen ja ammattikorkeakoulujen opettajat

Maa: Suomi

Alue: Pohjois-Savo

Sopimuksen kesto: Tilapäinen

Sopimuslaji: Kokopäiväinen

Lähde työtarjous:
MOL/Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö, Julkiset työvoimapalvelut, Suomi