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Sabbatical Positions Tarragona: Language and Speech Technology, Language Acquisition etc.

A few sabbatical positions may be available in 2006-2007 in the Research
Group on Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University
(Tarragona, Spain).

The web site of the host institute is:

http://www.grlmc.com

ELIGIBLE TOPICS

The eligible topics are the institute's current or future research directions:

- Formal language theory and its applications.
- Biomolecular computing and nanotechnology.
- Bioinformatics.
- Language and speech technologies.
- Formal theories of language acquisition and evolutionary linguistics.
- Computational neuroscience.

Other related fields might still be eligible provided there exist strong
enough candidates for them.

JOB PROFILE

- Top-level appointments for experienced researchers being on leave from
  their home organization.
- Scholarship (rather than a work contract).
- The main duty of the position is research, with possible supervising and
  doctoral teaching too.
- 3-12 months long.
- To start in 2006 and to be developed in the period January 1st, 2006 -
  October 31st, 2007.
- The scheme is extremely competitive.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS

- The positions can be filled in only by scholars that occupy a
  full/associate professorship at their home organization.
- PhD degree got earlier than 2000.
- Exceptional research career, with a very strong record of publications
  and other achievements.
- There is no restriction on nationality or age.

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

- Salary in the interval 1,500-3,000 euro/month (most probably, not less
  than 2,500 euros).
- Travel grant.
- Healt insurance coverage will be provided exceptionally to those
  scholars that don't have one from their home country.

EVALUATION PROCEDURE

It will consist of 2 steps:

- a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute,
- a full proposal (CV + research project + work plan), to be assessed
  externally by the funding agency.

SCHEDULE

Expressions of interest are welcome until June 17, 2005. They should
contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-10" in the subject box. The
outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after.
Preselected candidates will be given appropriate support in the
application process by the host institute. The deadline for completing the
whole process is June 30, 2005.

CONTACT

Carlos Martin-Vide
carlos.martin@urv.net