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Pre- or postdoctoral position in Artificial Intelligence, Osnabrueck (Germany), Deadline: 21 February 2012

The Artificial Intelligence Group of the Institute of Cognitive Science 
(IKW) at the University of Osnabrueck (Germany) seeks applicants for a

doctoral / postdoctoral position (salary level E 13 TV-L, 50%)

The position is limited until September 30th, 2014 and provides the 
possibility of further scientific qualification (PhD / Habilitation).

The main research areas of the AI group are non-classical forms of 
reasoning, ontologies and text technology, neural-symbolic integration, 
and cognitive architectures.

The duties of the successful applicant include 2 hours teaching load 
(teaching language is English) as well as participation in the research 
activities of the AI group.

Applicants should have an excellent academic degree (Master/Diploma) in 
computer science or a related discipline, and potentially a PhD degree. In 
the ideal case, the successful candidate has experience in 
interdisciplinary research and fulfils at least two of the following 
requirements:

Thorough knowledge in formal logic and knowledge representation 
formalisms, in particular with respect to ontology design and inference 
procedures Thorough knowledge in the theory of artificial neural networks 
Thorough knowledge in cognitive modeling Thorough knowledge in the 
development of algorithms Practical knowledge in at least one of the 
following programming languages: Prolog, Java, ML/Scheme, or a similar 
language

The University of Osnabrueck strives for an increase in the number of 
women in academic employment. Women are therefore especially encouraged to 
submit their applications and will be preferentially considered provided 
they are equally qualified. Disabled candidates with equal qualifications 
will be given preference.

There is an option for part-time employment.

Letters of application with the usual documents (CV, list of publications, 
and the names of two referees) should be sent to the Director of the 
Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, Albrechtstrasse 
28, 49076 Osnabrueck. The deadline for applications is 21.02.2012. Further 
information can be provided by Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger 
(kkuehnbe@uni-osnabrueck.de).