The University of Helsinki is a multidisciplinary research university belonging to the best in the world and to the top ten European universities. The university has 36,500 degree students and the total number of staff is over 8,500. The university budget is 650 Million Euros.

The Tenure Track system for teaching and research staff is employed at the University of Helsinki to add to the predictability, competitiveness and appeal of academic careers there, as well as to promote the internationalisation of the university

The university hires gifted and motivated employees with scientific and other significant merits, who have completed their doctoral degree no more than ten years ago. They will be employed as assistant professors on fixed-term contracts of 2-5 years, depending on the background and experience of the selected candidates. If their work is successful and fills the set criteria, their contracts may be extended by another fixed term, after which they may be tenured as professors.

Applicants will be selected on the basis of their scientific merits and teaching experience. In addition, work abroad and other international experience, as well as experience with acquisition of research financing will be appreciated.

The Faculty of Science declares one tenure track vacancy open, in the field of

COMPUTER SCIENCE (DATA MANAGEMENT)

The vacancy is situated at the Department of Computer Science, which is part of the Faculty of Science.

The Department of Computer Science is the leading computer-science research and teaching unit in Finland. The focus areas of research and education at the department are 1) algorithms and machine learning, 2) networking and services, and 3) software systems. Three national Finnish Academy centres of excellence are active at the department, and the department has a close research partnership with Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). The department is one of ten national centres of excellence in university education. The department employs 170 persons and its total budget is 11 Million Euros. The department disposes of an excellent research infra-structure, including its own 1960-core high-performance cluster.

The specific field of the vacancy is data management including its sub-areas such as distributed database systems, management of big data systems, data models and data description languages, application-specific data management, and the management of heterogeneous, mobile or network data.

The duties of the assistant professor include scientific research on data management, as well as database education and supervising theses on databases at the department. Candidates are expected to have carried on a successful career as an independent researcher after completing their doctoral degree. They are expected to have reached prominent international visibility in their own field, manifested by quality publications in the leading forums of their field, and by active participation in the international computer sciencecommunity. In addition, they are expected to have good teaching skills. Ready participation in the education at the department and the establishment and management of a research group will also be expected.

The initial salary will be 4,400-5,300 Euros per month depending on the candidate’s competence and work experience.

Applications must include a CV, a list of publications, an account of experience and merits that are significant when assessing teaching skills, and other documents that may affect selection, or a university portfolio containing the afore-mentioned documents and information, all in English. For the university portfolio, please see the instructions at http://www.helsinki.fi/facultyofscience/vacancies/portfolio.pdf. In addition, we expect a maximum 2-page presentation in English on how the candidates would improve the research in their field while working at the department.

Applicants are requested to be prepared to select 10 publications for expert evaluation after the application deadline, if called for by the faculty. The publications will be sent as pdf files by email.

The applications should be addressed to the Faculty of Science. The faculty wishes the applications to be sent by email to the registrar’s office of the University of Helsinki, at hy-kirjaamo@helsinki.fi. You may also send the application by post to the address Registrar’s Office, University of Helsinki, PO Box 33 (Yliopistonkatu 4), 00014 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI. The cut-off date for applications is on 31 October 2013 (The registry closes at 15.45 local Helsinki time.)

For more details on the vacancy, please contact the Head of the Department of Computer Science, Professor Esko Ukkonen, +358 9 19151280 esko.ukkonen@cs.helsinki.fi.