Connectionists: W1-Professorship in Perceiving Systems @ University of Bonn, Germany

[Sven Behnke]

The Computer Science Department at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural
Sciences of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany 
invites
applications for the following position

* W1-Professorship (Juniorprofessur) in Perceiving Systems *

to be filled as soon as possible.

The department is looking for excellent candidates holding a doctoral 
degree
who are about to establish their own research agenda, complementing our 
current
activities in the areas of Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and
Computer Vision.

Applicants must have demonstrated scientific excellence in at least one 
of the
following areas:
- 3D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
- Tracking Deformable or Articulated Objects
- Semantic Categorization
- Scene or Action Understanding
- Interactive Perception
- Multimodal Perception or
- Machine Learning for Perception

The successful candidate is expected to establish his or her own research
agenda by actively acquiring grants and through participation in existing
collaborations, e.g., in the DFG research unit "Mapping on Demand". Initial
teaching duties are four hours per week during lecture periods, e.g., in our
English Master Computer Science programme. The professorship will become 
part
of the Computer Science Institute VI.

The position is filled in accordance with §36 of the Higher Education 
Act of
North Rhine-Westphalia (Hochschulgesetz Nordrhein-Westfalen). The initial
employment of three years will be extended for three more years after a
positive intermediate evaluation.

The University of Bonn is an equal opportunity employer.

Applicants are asked to electronically submit complete application 
documents in
a single PDF file (curriculum vitae, list of publications, research and
teaching statement, transcripts and certificates, preprints of the three 
most
important publications) until October 31st, 2015 to the Head of the Computer
Science Department: fachgruppe at cs.uni-bonn.de

Further information can be acquired from Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke, 
University of
Bonn, Computer Science Institute VI, Autonomous Intelligent Systems, 
Friedrich-
Ebert-Allee 144, 53113 Bonn, Germany.

PDF Version:
http://www3.uni-bonn.de/die-universitaet/stellenangebote/dez.-3/w1_perceiving_systems