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Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor (fulltime)
In geodata integration, interoperability and distributed analysis
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Key takeaways

Hours
40 hr.
Salary indication
€ 3,974 - € 6,181
Deadline
23 Oct 2022
To achieve our ambition of generating new insights and providing actionable geoinformation products to diverse stakeholders, we need to make sense of an ever-increasing volume and diversity of geodata. This requires the anticipation and implementation of new opportunities to collect, integrate, process, and analyze geodata from heterogeneous sources and of highly varying quality. Technological advances allow us to shift (part of) the analysis to the edge of the network and use the entire network to for distributed learning and analysis, requiring new approaches and methods to take full advantage of this development. We are recruiting an assistant professor to strengthen and extend our activities in integration, interoperability, and distributed analysis of geodata.

You will work at the intersection of geodata integration, interoperability, and distributed analysis, including wireless sensor networks and spatially aware machine learning on constrained hardware (Internet of Things). Your central theme will be the methods to handle, combine, and optimize the processing of geoinformation in extremely heterogeneous and data-rich environments to develop spatially explicit, explanatory and/or forecasting models for various application domains (e.g., extreme weather events, air pollution, or noise pollution), while maintaining the privacy of the contributors. In this field, you will help shaping our R&D agenda and ambitions, identify relevant project opportunities, connect with expert colleagues, and build teams and proposals.

You will have regular interactions with staff and PhD candidates to build and sustain an overview of expertise available, and support the ambitions of the University, faculty, and the department towards 2030. Together with project officers you will identify opportunities early in the domains of research, education and capacity development.

Your profile

Your central interest in the above domain is method-oriented, pragmatic and spatiotemporal.

You:

• Are excited to work in an international team with project activities around the world.
• Combine a drive for practical solutions with scientific rigour and team building spirit. Creating societal impact is one of your drivers.
• Enjoy collaboration and flourish in the context of wicked problems.
• Have a PhD in either geo-information science, quantitative geography, or any computational science or relevant engineering degree. Your track record features work in data science, data organization, systems architecture, or geospatial applications.
• Are familiar with problems in geodata interoperation and distributed data storage and processing.
• Have experience in programming IoT devices (e.g., Arduino ecosystem) and development of deep learning models (e.g., Tensorflow), or demonstrate the potential and willingness to develop those skills.
• Have a demonstrated understanding of the academic background of the associated department (Geospatial computing).
• Have a proven track record in scientific publications and proposal writing, embracing principles of Open Science and FAIR data, looking for ways to make impact beyond the pure academic process.
• Are interested in teaching and supervising MSc and PhD students, for which you have or are willing to obtain a University Teaching Qualification withing 3 years of employment.
• Are outward looking, have an eye for opportunities, and understand project acquisition strategy.
• Are pro-active, hands-on, and result-oriented.
• Have affinity to collaborate in an international and interdisciplinary team.
• Have an excellent command of English.
• Are a strategic and innovative thinker.

As your role is integrated in the wider earth and environmental sciences domain in the Netherlands, an active attitude towards strengthening our national network is expected.

Our offer

We offer an inspiring and challenging international environment. You will be initially employed for 1 year, after which your position can become permanent, subject to a successful evaluation.

• Gross monthly salary between € 3,974.- and € 6,181.- (depending on experience and qualifications, job profile Assistant Professor level 2 or 1).
• A holiday allowance of 8% of the gross annual salary and a year-end bonus of 8.3%
• Excellent support for research and facilities for professional and personal development.
• A solid pension scheme
• A total of 41 holiday days in case of fulltime employment
• Professional and personal improvement programmes

Information and application

For more information you can contact Dr Frank Ostermann (e-mail: f.o.ostermann@utwente.nl). You are also invited to visit our homepage.
Please submit your application
before 24 October 2022
(choose “apply here” below). Your application has to include

• A motivation letter clearly outlining your skills, your experience and how you fit the tasks and profile of the position.
• A full Curriculum Vitae.
• The names and contact details of two references.

The University of Twente wants to be an organisation that optimally deploys diversity, talents and capabilities in the labour market for now and the future. In the framework of our diversity and inclusiveness policy, we strongly stimulate people with a (work) disability to apply for this position.

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About the department

The Department of Geo-information processing is a multi-disciplinary scientific team that develops computational methods for processing (acquiring, organizing, analyzing) spatio-temporal data and information, which in turn are used to build models, visualizations and information systems to improve our understanding of dynamic spatial systems and to help in decision-making at multiple spatial and temporal scales.

About the organization

The Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) provides international postgraduate education, research and project services in the field of geo-information science and earth observation. Our mission is capacity development, where we apply, share and facilitate the effective use of geo-information and earth observation knowledge and tools for tackling global wicked problems. Our purpose is to enable our many partners around the world to track and trace the impact – and the shifting causes and frontiers – of today’s global challenges. Our vision is of a world in which researchers, educators, and students collaborate across disciplinary and geographic divides with governmental and non-governmental organisations, institutes, businesses, and local populations to surmount today’s complex global challenges and to contribute to sustainable, fair, and digital societies.

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