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The Faculty of Science occupies a leading position internationally in its fields of research and participates in a large number of cooperative programmes with universities, research institutes and businesses. The faculty has a student body of around 4,000 and 1,500 members of staff, spread over eight research institutes and a number of faculty-wide support services. A considerable part of the research is made possible by external funding from Dutch and international organisations and the private sector. The Faculty of Science offers eleven Bachelor's degree programmes and nineteen Master’s degree programmes in the fields of the exact sciences, computer science and information studies, and life and earth sciences.
Since September 2010, the whole faculty has been housed in a brand new building at the Science Park in Amsterdam. The instalment of the faculty has made the Science Park one of the largest centres of academic research in the Netherlands.
The ILPS group of the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam has a fully funded position for a
PhD Student on 'Data integration and exchange, knowledge base integration and schema mappings.'
38 hours per week (for 4 years)
vacancy number W11-231
The PhD position is funded through the EU FP7 ENVRI project, which aims to facilitate sharing and reuse of data among environmental research institutions.
This project is about a database topic, data exchange. Data exchange is about the problem of taking data structured under a source schema and materializing an instance of a target schema that reflects as accurately as possible the source data.
Data exchange is currently a hot topic in both theory and systems database conferences. Recently focus in theory development has moved to more challenging area’s which are closer to real world scenarios: exchanging incomplete and/or uncertain data; exchanging knowledge bases (data and rules); and learning mappings from examples.
The PhD student will work in this exciting field, and is expected to address both theory and systems aspects. The project enables the PhD student to experiment with data exchange technologies in a cool setting: that of a European cluster of environmental research institutes working with meteorological, seismic, vulcanic, sea and ocean, space, etc data. Connecting these diverse datasets has obvious advantages but has turned out to be difficult. The larger EU project in which this PhD position is embedded aims to facilitate the exchange of scientific data among these institutes.
The PhD student will work under direct supervision of Dr. Maarten Marx. The formal thesis supervisor will be Professor Maarten de Rijke.
Appointment
The appointment will be full-time (38 hours a week) for a period of four years (initial employment is 18 months and after a positive evaluation the appointment will be extended further with 30 months) and should lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis). An educational plan that includes attendance of courses and national and international meetings will be drafted. The salary is in accordance with the university regulations for academic personnel and will range from €2,042 (first year) up to a maximum of €2,612 (last year) before tax per month (scale P). The holiday allowance is 8% of the annual gross income and the end-of-year bonus 8.3%. The collective employment agreement of Dutch universities is applicable.
Job application
To save paper and the environment, all applications and responses will be sent by e-mail only. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a letter of motivation (at most 1 page) explaining why you are interested in this position, a list of all university courses taken, including a transcript of grades, a short summary of your Master thesis in maximum 1/2 page and the name and contact details (including email address) of two referees who can provide details about your profile. All these should be grouped in one PDF attachment.
The application should be sent - before December 23, 2011 - by e-mail to application-science@uva.nl, quoting the vacancy number in the subject line.