Professor Applied Software Languages Research

The Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Department of Computer Science, is looking for a part-time professor. 

More concretely your work package contains: 

Education and Research domain:

You will be part of the Software Languages Lab (SOFT) in the Computer Science department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, more specifically in the domain of utilization and applications of research in software languages.

Education tasks:

Your teaching load will consist of general courses in computer science at the bachelor level as well as more specialized research-related master level courses. It will consist of 2 or 3 courses of 6 ECTS per year. The concrete list of courses shall be negotiated with you depending on your expertise.
The VUB has a strong tradition in teaching and deploying dynamic programming languages.

Research tasks:

• Apart from teaching, you will conduct research in the field of “applied software technology”. SOFT’s research culture is mainly technical, and artefact driven. It produces tangible contributions to the field in terms of systems, databases, programming languages, development tools and/or their formal underpinnings. This vacancy needs to be interpreted in this artefact-driven research culture of the lab.
• You will reinforce the lab by conducting applied research that is related to existing academic research activities:
  • If you have proven contributions to security-related research topics, you will receive preference;
  • If your CV demonstrates that you have a strong potential to reinforce SOFT’s (industrial) utilization activities, you will receive preference;
  • The Software Languages Lab is a very collaborative environment. Most resources of het lab (infrastructures, TAs, office space, …) are shared on an informal basis. If you endorse this collaborative way of working, you will receive preference over candidates that prefer to work entirely independently.

Other tasks:

You will become a member of the management structure of the Software Languages Lab. In this capacity, you are expected to contribute to the operational aspects of the lab and its continuing growth. This comprises guiding bachelor and master thesis students, advising PhD students and participating in the management and policy making processes of the university. Last but not least, you are expected to initiate new research projects and to acquire research funds.

For this function, our Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering Campus (Elsene) will serve as your home base.