Research Associate (Postdoc) in Software Engineering (Requirement Engineering with emphasis on Regulatory Compliance)

We offer an attractive research associate (postdoc) position in the context of the National Centre of Excellence in Financial Technologies (NCER-FT), a large, interdisciplinary initiative combining expertise from technology, finance, and law.

The successful candidate will join the SVV research group, headed by Prof. Domenico Bianculli.

The group focuses on the development and design of reliable, safe, and secure software systems, carrying out both upstream activities such as requirements quality assurance and architecture analysis, as well as downstream verification & validation activities, primarily software testing and analysis. For further information, you may refer to https://www.uni.lu/snt-en/research-groups/svv

The SVV group is involved in the NCER-FT through multiple ramp-up projects, focusing on automating change impact analysis of financial regulations, automated compliance checking and monitoring of investment fund activities, completeness checking of content requirements in regulated documents, and formalization of legal provisions to enable program analysis for compliance.

The position holder will be required to perform the following tasks:

• Carrying out research in the predefined areas
• Implementing prototype tools
• Empirically evaluating the proposed solutions and tools
• Disseminating results through scientific publications
• Preparing and organizing project meetings
• Participating in proposal drafting to attract industrial, national, and European projects
• Providing guidance to PhD, master, and bachelor students
• Organizing relevant workshops and demonstrations