<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">The Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Science of the University of Helsinki invites applications </span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">for a </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Professor or Associate/Assistant Professor</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">to </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">carry out <b class="">research into the fundamentals of artificial intelligence</b>, </span><b class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">combining computer science with studies of the brain and the mind</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">The position is part of the University of </span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Helsinki profiling action on ‘Mind and Matter – foundations of information, intelligence and consciousness,’ </span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">aiming to strengthen new interdisciplinary research areas at the university.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">The successful applicant may be appointed to a permanent full professorship or a fixed-term assistant/associate </span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">professorship (tenure track), depending on his or her qualifications and career stage.</span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">The person to be chosen must </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">have a strong scientific track record in the computer science of artificial intelligence,</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"> and preferably also interdisciplinary </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">experience with fields such as neuroscience, cognitive science or psychology.</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"> The University of Helsinki, and the Mind </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">and Matter action in particular, offer excellent potential collaborators in the</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"> relevant areas.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The deadline for applications is <b class="">November 30, 2019.<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For more information on the position and applying, please visit <a href="https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/professor-or-associateassistant-professor-in-artificial-and-human-intelligence" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); cursor: text;">https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/professor-or-associateassistant-professor-in-artificial-and-human-intelligence</a></span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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