Tenure Track Associate Professor in Informatics – Visualization / Visual Data Science

Updated: over 1 year ago
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 30 Nov 2022

The Department of Informatics  at the University of Bergen wishes to recruit a tenure track associate professor in the field of Informatics with specialization on Visualization / Visual Data Science. This is a 6 years fixed term position, with a possible promotion to a full professor position at the end of this period.

About the Department

The digitalization of businesses, industry, public administration, and education gives informatics an increasingly important role in the development of tomorrow’s society. Research and education in informatics are crucial for the success of the digital transformation of our society.  UiB’s Department of Informatics contributes to this through seven research groups that deliver research and education at a very high international level in algorithms, bioinformatics, information security, machine learning, optimization, programming theory and visualization.  We also develop a group in computer science didactics.  The Department offers computer science education at the Bachelor, Master and PhD levels.  The Department grows rapidly in its number of students, research directions, and employees.  Today, we have about 900 students and about 150 employees among which 37 are Faculty members and 70 are PhD candidates.  Our Center for Data Science (CEDAS ) is an important extension of our research and education activities, facilitating interdisciplinary cooperation in the domain of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.



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