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Työnimike: Postdoctoral Researcher/Project 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 15,500 students and 2,500 members of staff. We operate in Joensuu and Kuopio. In international rankings, we are ranked among the leading 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/lumet/etusivu

We are now inviting applications for
a Postdoctoral Researcher/Project Researcher position (Data Management and Quality), School of Computing, Kuopio Campus

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join our research team in the fast-growing field of data science. Currently, the data science team at the UEF School of Computing has two professors in data science, one in machine learning, one in computational intelligence, and one in statistics, in addition to senior and postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students. http://www.uef.fi/en/web/cs

The Postdoctoral Researcher will focus on data management and quality. Data management is key for modern research and business, and data science is a rapidly growing field of computer science. The quality of data is vital for successful data analysis. The Postdoctoral Researcher will develop methods and techniques for ensuring and improving data quality and data management. A successful applicant will have a PhD and experience in data management and data quality. The applicant is also expected to be familiar with classical and modern database and data analysis technologies (noSQL, graph databases, cloud computing, etc.), and have the skills needed to work in interdisciplinary research groups. The position also includes a moderate teaching load in the field of data management and data quality.

A person to be appointed as a postdoctoral researcher shall hold a suitable doctoral degree.

The person to be appointed to the Postdoctoral Researcher position is required to hold a doctoral degree, which may not have been completed more than five years ago at the time of accepting the position. If the doctoral degree has been awarded more than five years ago, the post will be one of a Project Researcher. In this context, the 5 years refer to a net period of time, which does not include maternity leaves, parental leaves, or military service, etc.

English may be used as the language of instruction and supervision in this position.

The position will be filled from May 1, 2019 or as agreed to April 30, 2022. Positions of postdoctoral researcher shall always be filled for a fixed term (UEF University Regulations, Section 31).

The salary of the 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 (€2,935.55/ month). In addition to the job requirement component, the salary is supplemented by a personal performance component, which can be a maximum of 50% of the job requirement component.

For further information on the position, please contact: Professor Pauli Miettinen, tel. +358 50 475 3210, e-mail pauli.miettinen a uef.fi For further information on the application procedure, please contact Noora Hämäläinen, tel. +358 50 409 0376, e-mail noora.hamalainen a uef.fi.

A probationary period is applied to all new members of the staff.

The electronic application should contain the following appendices:
- a curriculum vitae
- a list of publications
- copies of the applicant's academic degree certificates/ diplomas, and copies of certificates / diplomas relating to the applicant's language proficiency, if not indicated in the academic degree certificates/diplomas
- abstractJV_description of applicant's experience of teaching

The application needs to be submitted no later than 1 April 2019 (by 24.00 hours Finnish time) by using the electronic application form.
Please click on the "apply for the job" link to submit your application.

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source: TIVA