Connectionists: up to 1.25 million Euros for young AI/ML researchers returning to Germany

[Laurenz Wiskott]

Dear AI/ML Postdocs and Young Faculty,

we would like to draw your attention to the program by the North Rhine-Westphalian (NRW)
Ministry of Culture and Science for young scientist to return to NRW, Germany.

In short, if you
 * work in the field of artificial intelligence and/or machine learning,
 * are successfully doing research outside of Germany,
 * received a Dr or PhD two to six years ago,
 * lived in Germany before going abroad,
then you are entitled to apply for a grant for a junior research group of up to 1.25
million Euros in total for five years.  German citizenship is not required.

See
https://www.mkw.nrw/forschung/foerderung/wissenschaftlichen-nachwuchs-foerdern/rueckkehrprogramm/
for further details (in German).

If you want to apply and feel your research interests fit into the profile of the
Institute for Neural Computation [https://www.ini.rub.de] at the Ruhr-University Bochum,
please feel free to approach us to host your prospective junior research group.  Our
research interests include but are not limited to embodied cognition, navigation, memory,
reinforcement learning, agents in computer games, and self-organization of visual
representations, see https://www.ini.rub.de/research/groups/

Laurenz Wiskott.