[Tccc] CS professor position, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland

The Computer Science Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of
Geneva announces the opening of

One Professor Position (Tenure Track Assistant/Associate).

Deadline for the submission of applications: September 30th, 2009.
Starting date: October 1st, 2010 or date to be agreed upon.
Candidates MUST HAVE A PhD when submitting their application.

Description of the Scientific Domain:
The candidate must have a research and teaching record in one or more of
the following areas of computer science: management and modelling of
trust, security and privacy when handling multimedia data, knowledge
management and information search, massively distributed information
retrieval. The successful candidate will have to develop high level
research in the above domains, at the national and international levels,
in collaboration with research groups at the Computer Science Department
(http://cui.unige.ch/DI) and at the University Centre for Informatics
(CUI, http://cui.unige.ch)), and leading to the direction of Ph.D. and
M.Sc. theses. The candidate is expected to raise funds to support his or
her research projects.

Work Load:
Associate Professor: 6 hours of teaching and seminars per week.
Tenure Track Assistant Professor: 4 hours of teaching and seminars per
week.
The courses are at the Bachelor and Master Levels.
Courses' Language: The courses at the Bachelor level are given in French
(the accepted candidate must be able to give courses in French as soon
as possible). The courses at the Master level can be given in French or
English.

Tenure Track Assistant Professor promotion terms:
The Tenure Track Assistant professor has a 3 year contract, which is
renewable for 3 more years. At the end of his or her mandate the
candidate, based on academic achievements, will either be promoted to a
tenured position or the contract will be terminated.

The Tenure Track Assistant professor will have two evaluations during
his or her mandate towards a tenured position of Associate or Full
Professor. The first evaluation will take place at the end of the second
year of the term. The evaluation committee will propose either the
renewal of the mandate for another three years or the termination of the
contract. The second evaluation will take place one year before the end
of the second term and the evaluation committee will decide to either
award a tenured position or to terminate the contract.

Application submission information:
2 copies of the curriculum vitae and of the list of the publications, at
the top of which the candidate will clearly indicate 5 or 6 publications
which are the most representative of his/her work (two copies of these
publications must be included). A certified copy of the highest diploma
obtained by the candidate, or a certificate of the institution that
delivered it, must be joined to the application. The candidate must
provide 3 letters of reference.

The application with the required documents must be sent before the
30th. of September 2009 to:

Dean of the Faculty of Sciences
30, Quai Ernest-Ansermet
CH-1211 Genève 4
Switzerland
or by email as one file only to Lisette.Marques@unige.ch to whom any
enquiry regarding this position should be addressed.

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