Two Positions as Assistant Professor

Recently, Umeå University decided to make a strategic funding within the focus area Applied Information Technology by forming the UMIT Research Laboratory.The UMIT efforts include the establishment of a dynamic, intellectual, and physical research environment enabling world-class interdisciplinary research in scientific, high-performance, distributed, real-time, and visual computing.Deliverables include new models, methods, parallel algorithms and high-quality software targeting emerging HPC platforms and IT infrastructures.UMIT will also focus on challenges and applications of high relevance for the industry, and the use of innovative techniques and collaboration with industrial partners and society are important components.The announced positions are affiliated with UMIT and placed at the Department of Computing Science and the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.The positions are for four years, beginning as soon as possible.The positions are primarily focused on conducting high-quality research but we also encourage participation in teaching up to a level of 20%, which qualifies for an extension of the position up to a total of five years.After four years the position will be up for tenure-evaluation and possible promotion to a permanent position.Following the European nomenclature the positions are called Associate Senior Lecturers.