Assistant Professor on Recommender Systems at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Assistant Professor Position on Recommender Systems

The Database and Information Systems group of the Faculty of Computer
Science at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) is looking for an
outstanding researcher to fill a position of Assistant Professor with
research interests in the area of Recommender Systems. The position is
starting from March 2013.

The faculty is active in a number of research projects in recommendation and
personalization technologies and in particular on: context-aware recommender
systems, group recommender systems, cross-domain recommendations, combining
implicit and explicit feedback, sequential decision making for recommender
systems, and applications in tourism, music, and eHealth.

We are looking for exceptional candidates with the following
characteristics:

- PhD in computer science or a related technical field;
- Teaching experience;
- Established track record of creating and publishing results of high
research quality;
- Strong technical skills and experience of programming;
- Substantial mathematical background;
- Experience of working on international projects;
- Excellent presentation skills.

The start date for this position will be March 2013, or as soon as possible
after that. The position is for 3 years renewable for 2 additional years.
The appointee is expected to conduct independent research in one of above
mentioned research projects, submit grant proposals, supervising
undergraduate and graduate students, and engage in some teaching duties (at
least 60 hours of frontal lectures per year). Some knowledge of Italian or
German languages is desirable but not necessary at the beginning.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience, starting
from a minimum of 42.000 Euro per year. Interested candidates please send
informal inquiries, your CV (including publication list), and a sample of
three representative publications to: Francesco Ricci (fricci@unibz.it).

For more information,
Faculty of Computer Science at FUB: http://www.inf.unibz.it/ Recommender
Systems: http://www.inf.unibz.it/~ricci/