[CPM-SPIRE-L] Call for Interest for Professor Positions at the Department of Computer Science - University of Pisa

[Nadia Pisanti]

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                          Call for Interest
Candidates for positions of Full Professor and Associate Professor
     Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy
                           www.di.unipi.it
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The Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa is seeking
expressions of interest for tenured positions at the Associate Professor
and Full Professor level, to be covered, in multiple selection rounds,
in 2017-2019.
Outstanding candidates in all areas of Computer Science are invited to
apply. At this time, the Department seeks to expand its faculty in
particular into the following areas:
   * Computational Science and Applied Mathematics including
applications to complex systems  and models in the fields of physical
sciences, life sciences, social sciences,  engineering and finance.
   * Ubiquitous computing including Internet of Things, Cloud and Fog
computing, mobile applications, wearable and cyber-physical systems,
programming languages, formal methods and verification.
   * Artificial Intelligence and Data Science including analysis and
management of big data, machine learning, and high-performance
architectures for related computations.

===== Position Profile =====
Successful candidates will be expected to contribute to the activities
of the Department, in multiple capacities:
   * Research, by providing leadership in defining research projects,
attracting funding from industry or competitive funding programs, and
contributing to dissemination of results through top-level publications.
   * Teaching, by offering courses for approximately 120 hrs per year
(this translates to 2-3 courses per year) to students, at the
undergraduate and graduate level. Post-grad teaching and PhD courses can
be arranged as well.
   * Management, by serving in the various committees and boards of our
University.
Candidates must have obtained a national habilitation for the
applied-for position (associate or full professor), or already hold an
equivalent academic position. Salary is aligned to national standards,
starting from a minimum of Euro 51000/yr for an Associate Professor, and
Euro 72000/yr for a Full Professor, and can be increased based on
seniority and qualifications.

===== The Department of Computer Science in Pisa =====
The Department, established in the late 1960s (the first to be created
in the country in CS), has been a primary hub of research and innovation
for the last 50 years. Currently the faculty counts 58 members (48 in
Computer Science, 10 in Computational Mathematics and Optimization) and
about 50 non-permanent research staff, with around 10 additional
positions, at various levels, to be filled in the next three years.
The Department offers 2 Bachelor programs (in Computer Science and in
Digital Humanities), 4 Master programs (with a total of 10 different
curricula), and 2 PhD programs (in Computer Science and in Data
Science). Overall, around 2000 students are enrolled in the different
programs. All academic members of the Department enjoy a high degree of
academic freedom, and are expected to excel in the respective fields of
interest.

===== Application Instructions =====
For any further detail please contact the Head of Department, Professor
Gian-Luigi Ferrari at gian-luigi.ferrari at unipi.it.
Interested candidates are kindly requested to send at
call.interest at di.unipi.it  their resume and a short statement of their
research interest, together with their vision for how they intend to
contribute to our Department.  For this round, please send your
expression of interest by 15th of May 2017.  Next rounds are expected in
May 2018 and May 2019.

===== Disclaimer =====
Please note that this is a call for interest only, and not a job vacancy
advertisement, and that the Department can decide on its own whether or
not to open a position and at which level. The actual selection for a
position will be based on a public selection procedure pursuant art. 18,
comma 1 and 4, of Italian Law 240/2010.