Assistant Professor Position on Recommender Systems, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Assistant Professor Position on Recommender Systems "Ricercatore a tempo determinato"

The Database and Information Systems group at 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 Database and Information Systems group 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 is March 2013, or as soon as possible after
that. The position is for 3 years renewable for 2 additional ones. 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 together with 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/