Announcement of an Open Position at The Faculty of Informatics at TU Vienna / Austria

University Post-Doctoral Position at the Cyber-Physical Systems Group

University Post-Doctoral Position at the Cyber-Physical Systems Group, Computer Science Department, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

The Computer Science Department of the Technical University of Vienna has an Open Post-Doctoral University Positions. Application Deadline: February 08, 2017.

The position position is offered within the Cyber-Physical Systems Group, of the Institute for Computer Engineering. It belongs to the B1 group, that is, a six years University Post-Doctoral position, with an employment of 20 hours / week. The appointment will start most likely on May 1 2017, and end on March 31 2023.

The University position will be supplemented with 20 hours / week for four years (with the possibility for extension to six years, until March 31, 2023) from the prestigious Austrian University-Infrastructure BMWFW project:

• CPS/IoT Ecosystem: Preparing Austria for the Next Digital Revolution.

The minimal monthly salary (14 times a year) is of EU 1.813,30 (pre-tax). To successfully apply for the position it is required to have:

• A finished PhD study with distinction in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or equivalent study within Austria or abroad.

The Post-Doctoral student is supposed to lead the CPS/IoT Ecosystem Project (see http://ti.tuwien.ac.at/cps/research/projects for a description), which is the first of its kind in Austria, and possibly in the EU. This project work will involve the following activities:

• Design a CPS/IoT architecture consisting of a swarm / real-time fog / real-time cloud
• Deploy the CPS/IoT infrastructure at 3 TUW institutes, IST Austria and AIT
• Work together with two other CPS/IoT PhD students
• Cooperate with world reknown universities in the design/application of the CPS/IoT

The Post-Doctoral student is also supposed to have an exceptional research and teaching activity. Prerequisites in this respect are as follows:

• An excellent PhD in a CPS related area.
• A strong previous publication record.
• The ability to plan and carry out original research in CPS areas s.a.:
  • CPS/IoT connectivity, monitoring, prediction, and optimisation,
  • Robotics, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, self-organizing systems,
  • Verification and optimal control of CPS.
• The ability to write research grant proposals.
• Collaboration experience in national/international research projects.
• Experience in performing research-administration tasks
• The ability to provide guidance to bachelor, master, and PhD students.
• Willingness to participate in outreach activities.
• An excellent command of English (command of German is a plus).

Send your application at the following address:

Personnel Administration, Department of Scientific Personnel of the TU
(Personal administration, Fachbereich wiss. Personal der TU)

In case you fulfill our requirements we are looking forward to your applications addressed to dekanat@informatik.tuwien.ac.at