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W1 Junior Professorship in Linguistics, Aachen (Germany), Deadline: 31 August 2008

RWTH Aachen University is one of Europe's leading educational and research
 
institutions, with core competencies in the natural and engineering 
sciences. By employing interdisciplinary methods and approaches, its 
students and staff form an innovative scientific community dedicated to 
providing responsible solutions to the pressing problems of our society.

Human Technology Centre (HumTec)
Faculty of arts and humanities

HumTec is an interdisciplinary "project house" at RWTH Aachen University 
funded as part of the excellence initiative by the federal government and
 
the state government of North-Rhine Westphalia. HumTec aims at fostering 
high level interdisciplinary research between the humanities/social 
sciences and the engineering/natural sciences. Research at HumTec will 
focus on two research areas: "Values, Norms, Governance" and "Behaviour, 
Communication, Acceptance". The first area has a normative orientation 
comprising programmes focussing on ethical, legal, and political aspects 
of technological innovations. The second area comprises programmes with a
 
strong empirical orientation focusing on cognitive, social, linguistic, 
and cultural aspects of new technologies. The first two programmes to be 
established in the respective areas in 2008 are "Ethics for Energy 
Technologies", "Law and Technology", and "eHealth. Enhancing mobility with
 
aging". We are seeking qualified candidates for the following position:

Junior Professor (W1) Linguistics

The professorship is linked with a research group leader position in the 
HumTec programme "Natural Media and Engineering". The programme addresses
 
the various forms of human face to face interaction and human computer 
interaction with respect to the natural media of human communication and 
with special regard to facial expression and gesture. Candidates must have
 
a PhD in philology, linguistics or communications studies and a strong 
back-ground in non verbal communication (gesture studies), and sign theory
 
(semiotic). Moreover, they are expected to show openness towards empirical
 
methods. The successful candidate will work in an interdisciplinary and 
international environment with doctoral students and PostDocs from the 
communication sciences, cognitive psychology, clinical neuroscience, and 
computer science.

Candidates for this advertised position should have an international 
publication record and experience in the acquisition and administration of
 
third party funds. Research group leaders in HumTec will have a reduced 
teaching load and will be expected to participate in the HumTec graduate 
education programme.

This position is available for six years. Competition at all levels is an
 
essential strategic guideline of RWTH Aachen University within the 
Institutional Strategy. In this context, the continuance of successful 
junior professorship as tenure-track position upon completion of the 
period set for the junior professorship will depend on personal 
performance, as well as on structural developments and planning of the 
university.

The RWTH Aachen aims to increase the number of women in areas in which 
they are under-represented, thus women are strongly encouraged to apply. 
For further information please see: http://www.rwth-aachen.de/equality

The RWTH Aachen aims to integrate persons with disabilities, thus persons
 
with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. For further 
information please see: http://www.rwth-aachen.de/disabilities

The deadline for applications is August 31, 2008.

Please send a cover letter stating research aims and a CV to:
RWTH Aachen

Dekan der Philosophischen Fakultt
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Paul Hill
Templergraben 55
52062 Aachen

Bewerbungsschluss: 31.08.2008