Assistant professor or assistant at the Institute of Computer Science of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

1 Mar 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

University of Wroclaw

Department

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Research Field

Computer science

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Poland

Application Deadline

30 Apr 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Warsaw)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

tbd

Offer Starting Date

1 Oct 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Reference Number

16.2024.II.WMI.AW

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

University of Wroclaw invites applications for the position of assistant professor or assistant at the Institute of Computer Science of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
 

No 16.2024.II.WMI.AW of 01.03.2024

Institute/Department: Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

 

Position: assistant professor or assistant

Number of positions/vacancies: 1

Type of position: research and teaching

• in research discipline: natural sciences
• in research field:      computer science

Type of contract:  employment contract (for a maximum of four years), with the possibility to extension of the employment contract.

Working hours: full-time

Deadline for submission of documents: 30.04.2024

Anticipated deadline for the competition decision: 30.05.2024

Anticipated start date of employment: 01.10.2024

The competition is open to persons who meet the conditions set out in the Act of 20 July 2018. Law on Higher Education and Science (Journal of Laws 2023, item 742) and the Statute of the University of Wrocław.

 

Institute of Computer Scienceprovides a friendly environment to pursue your scientific passions. We are open to candidates working on research topics outside our current areas of excellence. We support our employees in applying for external funding. We offer additional support within the Excellence Initiative - Research University program. We work with many companies from the IT industry.

Our ambitious and talented students willingly engage in challenging projects.

Our distinctive feature is a flexible approach to designing our didactic offer, which is done with the participation of students and IT companies. Our teachers can design and propose their own lectures, projects and seminars. Advanced courses are taught in small groups and we provide our best students with the opportunity to participate in scientific research.

 

Requirements

Application requirements from the candidates for the assistant professor position:

PhD degree in computer science or in mathematics.

Research achievements published at very good conferences in computer science.

Candidates should also have at least one year of experience of employment, as a post-doc at a good  university, or relevant experience in the high-tech industry. Candidates who do not have such experience must explain, in their application, how they are going to gain it (using unpaid leave granted by The University of Wroclaw). They also need to state, in their application, that they accept that failing to begin their post-doc within two years from  October 1, 2023 will result in negative evaluation.

Activity in applying for grants will be highly assessed.

Fluency in English, at least B2 level.

Application requirements from the candidates for the assistant position:

Higher education, at least the Master degree.

Having an open doctoral dissertation.

A candidate without the PhD degree should provide the PhD supervisor opinion stating when the thesis has been (or will be) submitted and if possible, also the reviewers’ reports on the thesis.

Fluency in English, at least B2 level.

 

Responsibilities

The duties of a person employed as assistant professor or assistant will include:

Conducting research.

Applying funds for research.

Teaching.

Participating in organizational work at the Faculty and the University.

 

The application for the competition should include

Personal questionnaire of the person applying for employment (download Personal questionnaire ).

Curriculum vitae.

A copy of PhD (in the case of assistant professor’s position) or MSc diploma (in the case of assistant’s position).

A statement that the University of Wroclaw will be the candidate primary place of work in the case of winning the competition (download Workplace Statement ).

Declaration of the discipline in which the candidate will conduct research, and in the case of people conducting research in more than one discipline, the percentage of their involvement in each of these disciplines (download Declaration of scientific discipline ).

Self-presentation clearly indicating the candidate achievements, referring separately to the criterion of scientific activity, the criterion of internationalization, the criterion of organizational activity and the criterion of didactic activity.

A list of candidate’s publications.

Electronic versions of the candidate’s two most important publications representative of their research, or explanation why they are missing, whereby the Head of the Competition Board reserves the right to request the candidate to submit all or selected publications and/or other documents.

Application for employment addressed to HM Rector.

In connection with Article 113 of the Act of 20 July 2018. The Law on Higher Education and Science (download Declaration - Article 113 ).

In case of candidates who have been already employed as an assistant professor, a research plan should be attached, related to the perspectives of obtaining habilitation.

List of names and e-mail addresses of persons to whom additional opinions about the candidate may be requested. Additional opinions of reviewers will be treated as confidential, i.e. available only to members of the Employment Commission.

At least two recommendation letters; from scholars with a post-doctoral degree or the professor title or, in the case of candidates from a country other than Poland, holding positions equivalent to a post-doctoral degree or the professor title, specializing in the field within the candidate area of interest or related thereto. The recommendation letters should be sent by e-mail directly to the Commission Chairman at the following e-mail address: [email protected] , and not be seen by the candidate. The letters are overt only to the Commission members while the candidates abandon the right of access to these letters.

Once the results of the hiring process are announced, the candidates will be asked to submit their original documents.

 

CV should include the following note: I consent, within the meaning of Articles 4 and 7 of RODO, i.e. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Official Journal of the EU L of 4.05.2016, pp. 1-88), to the processing of my personal data by the University of Wroclaw, pl. Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wroclaw, for the purpose of recruitment for employment at the University of Wroclaw. I am aware that the consent given may be withdrawn at any time in a manner appropriate to its giving.

Participants in the competition consent to the publication of the data to be evaluated in the competition and provided in the competition application, in particular concerning scientific and teaching achievements.

All the documents should be sent in electronic form to the following address: [email protected] with the message title: “assistant professor.16.II.WMI.AW” or “assistant.16.II.WMI.AW”.

 

Additional information

The University of Wroclaw reserves the right to contact only selected candidates.

Selected candidates may be required to undergo an interview by means of electronic communication allowing audio and video transmission.

The University of Wroclaw reserves the right to close the competition without selecting a candidate.

The University of Wroclaw reserves the right to cancel the competition.

The University of Wroclaw does not provide housing.

 

Information clause for persons participating in the recruitment process

Requirements

Research Field

Computer science

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Research Field

Computer science

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Research Field

Mathematics

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Research Field

Mathematics

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Languages

ENGLISH

Level

Excellent

Additional Information
Additional comments

More about the employer:

The University of Wrocław is among the largest and bests Polish universities, teaching more than 250 thousand students and employing about 2000 scientists (https://uwr.edu.pl/en /). The Wrocław city is a large, open and continuously developing city well communicated (airport, railways) with the world (https://www.wroclaw.pl/en/ ).

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

University of Wroclaw

Country

Poland

Geofield

Where to apply

E-mail

[email protected]

Contact

City

Wrocław

Website

https://uwr.edu.pl/en

Street

pl. Uniwersytecki 1

Postal Code

50-137

E-Mail

[email protected]

STATUS: EXPIRED