[robocup-worldwide] [jobs] Five pre-doctoral and two post-doctoral fellowships (Edinburgh/Amsterdam/Barcelona/Trento/Brussels)

[Manfred Hild]

The ESSENCE (Evolution of Shared SEmaNtics in Computational Environments,
<http://www.essence-network.eu> www.essence-network.eu) Marie Curie Initial
Training Network is offering five Early-Stage Researcher (pre-doctoral) and
two Experienced Researcher (post-doctoral) positions, to start in February
2014. The application deadline for these posts is 15th December 2013.

This is a rare opportunity to be involved in a highly prestigious European
training network for outstanding applicants in an emergent and important
research area, led by internationally leading groups in their fields!

ESSENCE conducts research and provides research training in various aspects
of translating human capabilities for negotiating meaning to open
computational environments such as the web, multi-robot systems, and sensor
networks. The network will support 15 pre- and post-doctoral fellows who
will work toward a set of different research projects within this overall
theme, ranging from symbol grounding and ontological reasoning to
game-theoretic models of communication and crowdsourcing.

ESSENCE involves a top-quality consortium of internationally leading
research
institutions which will act as hosts for the following projects in the
current
recruitment round:

Early-Stage Researchers (36 months):
- Communication Planning (CISA, Informatics, The University of Edinburgh,
UK)
- Concept Convergence: Argumentation and Agreement over Meaning (IIIA-CSIC,
Barcelona, Spain)
- The Social Construction of Conceptual Space (ILLC, Universiteit van
Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Sociolinguistics and Network Games (ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
- Open-ended Robot Interaction (AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Early-Stage Researchers must, at the time of recruitment by the host
organisation be in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent research
experience) of their research careers, and not yet have a doctoral degree.

Experienced Researchers (24 months):
- The ESSENCE Platform: Architecture (CISA, Informatics, The University of
Edinburgh, UK)
- The ESSENCE Challenge (Information Engineering and Computer Science,
Universit‡ degli Studi di Trento, Italy)

Experienced Researchers must (at the time of recruitment by the host
organisation) be in possession of a doctoral degree, or have at least four
years of full-time equivalent research experience, and have less than five
years of full-time equivalent research experience (including time spent on
doctoral research).

For both categories, research experience is measured from the date when they
obtained the degree which formally entitled them to embark on a doctorate.

All positions are very competitively remunerated (significantly above the
respective average national salaries/studentships for pre- and post-doctoral
positions)  and aimed at outstanding candidates. Please consult the
individual descriptions of projects athttp://www.essence-network.eu/hiring
for detailled salary information.

Researchers can be of any nationality, though at the time of recruitment by
the host organisation, researchers must not have resided or carried out
their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of their host
organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the
reference date. (Short stays such as holidays and/or compulsory national
service are not taken into account.)

The ESSENCE network aims to attract 40% females among the recruited
researchers. Female applicants are explicitly encouraged to apply and
treated preferentially whenever they are equally qualified as other male
candidates. The ESSENCE network will encourage flexible working hours at
each host institution and/or the opportunity to work part-time from home if
necessary. ESSENCE will provide specific support for female researchers in
terms of targeted training events and dedicated mentoring.

All applicants are asked to pre-apply at
http://www.essence-network.eu/hiring. Please contact Dr Michael Rovatsos
(mrovatso at inf.ed.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

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