The Center for Reliable Software Technology CREST at Åbo Akademi University (http://www.abo.fi) in Turku, Finland is looking to expand its research team on model driven software and system engineering with one new post-doctoral researcher position and one doctoral student position in the area of software modeling languages and tools.
CREST (http://crest.abo.fi) is a research center at the Department of Information Technologies at Åbo Akademi University. Its research is focused on the development and analysis of software intensive systems and on the use of software based research paradigms in systems modeling and development.
We are looking for post-doctoral and Phd. researchers interested in working on a research project focusing in the definition of software and system modeling languages, including domain-specific modeling languages, modeling tools supporting these languages, and the validation of software modeles and languages. The work will be developed under the supervision of Ivan Porres (http://www.abo.fi/~iporres).
- Post-doctoral Position
Candidates for a post-doctoral position should have a doctoral degree in software engineering or a closely related field and research experience in topics such as the definition of the UML, definition of domain-specific modeling languages, metamodeling, description logics and tools such as EMF and Alloy.
We offer full-time employment for 1 year, ideally starting from Janurary 2009. The employment and salary will be based on the standard agreement and conditions at Åbo Akademi University. In practice, the monthly salary for a postdoctoral researcher is around 2500-3000 euro before taxes depending on experience.
- PhD. Position
Canditates for a phd. position should have a MSc in Mathematics, Computer Science, Electrical engineering and good communication and writing skills in English. PhD. students are expected to defend their doctoral thesis within 4 years.
We offer full-time employment for 4 years, with an intermediate evaluation after the first year.
- Application Procedure
If you are interested in one of the previous positions please send an email to iporres@abo.fi incuding the following attachments:
- a motivation letter - short description of your research interests - full C.V. - list of publications (Post doc position) - a copy of your M.Sc. degree certification together with your course program and corresponding grades, and (PhD. student position) - Contact information for 2 referees.
Please send your attachments in pdf format.
The vacancies will be filled on demand, and next deadline is November 30 for starting on January 2009. The following deadline will be February 28 2009.
Do not hesitate to contact Ivan Porres (iporres@abo.fi) if you have any questions about the application procedure.