Saarland University, Germany, is a campus university with an
international focus and a strong research profile. With
numerous internationally respected research institutes on campus and
dedicated support for collaborative
projects, Saarland University is an ideal environment for innovation and
technology transfer. The German
Research Center for Artificial Intelligence ﴾DFKI﴿ is Germany's leading
application‐driven research institute
with a core technology transfer mission. DFKI is currently the world's
largest research centre for artificial
intelligence operated as a public‐private partnership. DFKI maintains
close collaborative ties with national
and international companies and is firmly rooted in the worldwide
scientific AI landscape.
To further strengthen this excellence in research and teaching, the
Department of Language Science and
Technology ﴾LST﴿ in collaboration with the German Research Center for
Artificial Intelligence ﴾DFKI﴿ is inviting
applications for the following position:
Professorship (W3) in Language Technology
(m/f/x; Reference: W2464)
This position is a permanent public sector appointment ﴾equivalent to a
'full‐tenured professorship'﴿ starting
at the earliest possible opportunity. We are looking for an experienced
researcher in the field of language
technology who has extensive knowledge of natural language processing
and machine learning/AI
methodologies. Experience with dialogue systems and reinforcement
learning, the development of
foundation models and/or trustworthy Artificial Intelligence is also
desirable. In addition to holding a
professorship at the university, the successful candidate will also be
appointed as a scientific director at the
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence ﴾DFKI﴿ where they
will head a research department. DFKI is
an application‐driven research organization that is largely financed
through external project funding. A
demonstrated ability to attract significant external funding for
research projects at the national and
international level is therefore essential. We also expect candidates to
have experience in interdisciplinary
research and in collaborating with industrial partners. The Department
of Language Science and Technology
is internationally recognized for its collaborative and
interdisciplinary research, and the successful candidate
will be expected to contribute to relevant joint research initiatives.
Language technologies are core elements
of our study programmes at the M.Sc./M.A. and B.Sc./B.A. level and the
person appointed will teach courses
within these programmes.
What we can offer you:
The successful candidate will conduct world‐class research, lead their
own research group at the university
and perform teaching and supervisory duties at the undergraduate,
graduate and doctoral levels. At DFKI,
the person appointed will lead a research department with access to an
extensive worldwide network of
industrial and other research partners, facilitating research and impact
at a scale that is otherwise difficult to
achieve. The position offers excellent working conditions in a lively
and international scientific community.
Saarland University is one of the leading centres for language science
and computational linguistics in
Europe and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. The
Department of Language Science
and Technology ﴾LST﴿ employs about 100 research staff across nine
research groups in the fields of
computational linguistics, natural language processing,
psycholinguistics, phonetics and speech science,
speech processing, and corpus linguistics
(https://www.uni‐saarland.de/en/department/lst.html). The
department serves as the focal point of the Collaborative Research
Centre 1102 'Information Density and
Linguistic Encoding' (http://www.sfb1102.uni‐saarland.de) and of the
Research Training Group 'Neuroexplicit
Models of Language, Vision, and Action'
(https://www.neuroexplicit.org/), both of which involve close
collaboration with DFKI. The LST department and the DFKI are both part
of the Saarland Informatics Campus
(SIC: https://saarland‐informatics‐campus.de/en), which brings together
some 800 researchers and over
2000 students from 81 countries. SIC is a collaboration between Saarland
University and world‐class research
institutions on campus, which in addition to DFKI include the Max Planck
Institute for Informatics and the
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.
Qualifications:
The appointment will be made in accordance with the general provisions
of German public sector
employment law. Candidates must have experience in and an aptitude for
academic teaching. They will have
a PhD or doctorate in an appropriate subject and will have demonstrated
a particular capacity for
independent academic research, typically by having obtained an advanced,
post‐doctoral research degree ﴾
Habilitation﴿ or by having published an equivalent volume of
peer‐reviewed research or by having been
appointed to a junior professorship or similar position. They will have
a proven track record of leading their
own research group and of acquiring external research funding. The
successful candidate will be expected to
actively contribute to departmental research and teaching. The language
of instruction is English ﴾in the
M.Sc. and M.A. programmes﴿ and German ﴾in the B.Sc./B.A. programmes﴿. We
expect the successful
candidate either to have sufficient proficiency to teach in both
languages or to be willing to acquire this
level of proficiency within an appropriate period.
Your Application:
Applications should be submitted online at
www.uni-saarland.de/berufungen. No additional paper copy is
required. The application must contain:
• a letter of application and CV/résumé (including your telephone number
and email
address)
• a complete list of your academic publications
• a complete list of external funding (stating own share if you were not
the sole beneficiary)
• your proposed research concept (2–5 pages)
• your teaching concept (1 page)
• copies of your degree certificates
• complete copies of your five most significant publications
• the names of three academic references (including email addresses), at
least one of whom is not one of
your previous academic supervisors.
• If you hold a university degree from a foreign university, please
provide proof of equivalence from
Germany's Central Office for Foreign Education ﴾ZAB﴿ if available. If
proof of equivalence has not been
requested at the time of application, it must be submitted later upon
request.
Applications must be received no later than May 30, 2024.
Please include the job reference number W2464 when you apply. Selected
candidates will be interviewed. If
you have any questions, please contact: [email protected]‐saarland.de.
At Saarland University, we view internationalization as a process
spanning all aspects of university life. We
therefore expect members of our professorial staff to engage in
activities that promote and foster further
internationalization. Special support will be provided for projects that
maintain collaborative interactions
within existing international cooperative networks, e.g. projects with
partners in the European University
Alliance Transform4Europe (www.transform4europe.eu) or the University of
the Greater Region (www.uni‐
gr.eu)
Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with
its affirmative action policy,
Saarland University is actively seeking to increase the proportion of
women in this field. Qualified women
candidates are therefore strongly encouraged to apply. Preferential
consideration will be given to
applications from disabled candidates of equal eligibility. We welcome
applications regardless of nationality,
ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, age, sexual orientation and
identity.
When you submit a job application to Saarland University you will be
transmitting personal data. Please refer
to our privacy notice
(https://www.uni-saarland.de/verwaltung/datenschutz/) for information on
how we
collect and process personal data in accordance with Art. 13 of the
General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR). By submitting your application, you confirm that you have taken
note of the information in the
Saarland University privacy notice.
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