basis within a range that guarantees fair and attractive conditions with adequate and equitable social security provision in accordance with existing national Spanish legislation. This includes access to an excellent public healthcare system.

Work Environment

The working language at IMDEA-Software is English. IMDEA-Software is located in the lively area of Madrid, Spain. It offers an ideal working environment, open and collaborative, where researchers can focus on developing new ideas and projects. A generous startup package is offered. Researchers are also encouraged to participate in national and international research projects.

For more information please visit the web
pages of IMDEA Software at
www.software.imdea.org

IMDEA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages applications from a diverse and international community. IMDEA complies with the European Charter for Researchers.

northeastern university

Associate/Full Professor

Joint position with the Colleges of Computer and Information Science and Bouve Health Sciences. The candidate would play a key role in establishing a new interdisciplinary PhD-level Health Informatics degree program. The faculty in our colleges are currently working on multiple NIH-funded research projects. We are interested in faculty who can expand/complement our work in these areas. PhD in Health or Medical Informatics, CS, IS, or a related health-related discipline, together with proven ability to secure grant funding for health informatics research. Apply URL: http://www.neu.edu

Prince mohammad Bin fahd university ARAMCO Endowed Chair in Technology and Information Management

Visit the complete description at: http://www.pmu.edu.sa/cit/endowed.pdf or contact Dr. Nassar Shaikh (C)[phone]; (O)[phone],

[e-mail]

Vacancy open until filled. Review starts 26th October 2009.

The ideal candidate is a leader in technology and information management. Required is a doctorate degree in a closely related field; full professorship and significant experience in teaching, research and consultations; a record of publication and community outreach; experience as editor of a scholarly journal; international network and ability to attract participation in conferences held in Saudi Arabia.

Princeton university

Postdoctoral Researchers

Department of Computer Science, Princeton University is seeking applications for postdoctoral research positions in theoretical computer science. Postdocs will be affiliated with the Center for Com-

Saarland University is seeking to establish several

Junior Research Groups (W1/W2)

within the Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” which was established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative.

The term “multimodal” describes the different types of digital information such as text, speech, images, video, graphics, and high-dimensional data, and the way it is perceived and communicated, particularly through vision, hearing, and human expression. The challenge is now to organize, understand, and search this multi-modal information in a robust, efficient and intelligent way, and to create dependable systems that allow natural and intuitive multimodal interaction. We are looking for highly motivated young researchers with a background in the research areas of the cluster, including algorithmic foundations, secure and autonomous networked systems, open science web, information processing in the life sciences, visual computing, large-scale virtual environments, synthetic virtual characters, text and speech processing and multimodal dialog systems. Additional information on the Cluster of Excellence is available on http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de. Group leaders will receive junior faculty status at Saarland University, including the right to supervise Bachelor, Master and PhD students. Positions are limited to five years.

Applicants for W1 positions (phase I of the program) must have completed an outstanding PhD. Upon successful evaluation after two years, W1 group leaders are eligible for promotion to W2. Direct applicants for W2 positions (phase II of the program) must have completed a postdoc stay and must have demonstrated outstanding research potential and the ability to successfully lead their own research group. Junior research groups are equipped with a budget of 80k to 100k Euros per year to cover research personnel and other costs.

Saarland University has leading departments in computer science and computational linguistics, with more than 200 PhD students working on topics related to the cluster (see http://www.informatik-saarland.de for additional information). The German Excellence Initiative recently awarded multi-million grants to the Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” as well as to the “Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science”. An important factor to this success were the close ties to the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems which are co-located on the same campus.

Candidates should submit their application (curriculum vitae, photograph, list of publications, short research plan, copies of degree certificates, copies of the five most important publications, list of five references) to the coordinator of the cluster, Prof. Hans-Peter Seidel, MPI for Computer Science, Campus E1 4, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany. Please, also send your application as a single PDF file to [e-mail].

The review of applications will begin on January 15, 2010, and applicants are strongly encouraged to submit applications by that date; however, applications will continue to be accepted until January 31, 2010. Final decisions will be made following a candidate symposium that will be held during March 8 – 12, 2010.

Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with its policy of increasing the proportion of women in this type of employment, the University actively encourages applications from women. For candidates with equal qualification, preference will be given to people with physical disabilities.