Junior Professor (W1) Linguistics
- Ort: Aachen
- Arbeitszeit: Vollzeit
- Bezahlung/Besoldungsklasse: W1
- Disziplinen: Sprachwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Sprachenübergreifend
- Frist: 31.08.08
RWTH Aachen University is one of Europe's leading educational and research institutions, with core competencies in the natural and engineering sciences. By employing interdisciplinary methods and approaches, its students and staff form an innovative scientific community dedicated to providing responsible solutions to the pressing problems of our society.
Human Technology Centre (HumTec)
Faculty of arts and humanities
HumTec is an interdisciplinary "project house" at RWTH Aachen University funded as part of the excellence initiative by the federal government and the state government of North-Rhine Westphalia. HumTec aims at fostering high level interdisciplinary research between the humanities/social sciences and the engineering/natural sciences. Research at HumTec will focus on two research areas: "Values, Norms, Governance" and "Behaviour, Communication, Acceptance". The first area has a normative orientation comprising programmes focussing on ethical, legal, and political aspects of technological innovations. The second area comprises programmes with a strong empirical orientation focusing on cognitive, social, linguistic, and cultural aspects of new technologies. The first two programmes to be established in the respective areas in 2008 are "Ethics for Energy Technologies", "Law and Technology", and "eHealth. Enhancing mobility with aging". We are seeking qualified candidates for the following position:
Junior Professor (W1) Linguistics
The professorship is linked with a research group leader position in the HumTec programme "Natural Media and Engineering". The programme addresses the various forms of human face to face interaction and human computer interaction with respect to the natural media of human communication and with special regard to facial expression and gesture. Candidates must have a PhD in philology, linguistics or communications studies and a strong back-ground in non verbal communication (gesture studies), and sign theory (semiotic). Moreover, they are expected to show openness towards empirical methods. The successful candidate will work in an interdisciplinary and international environment with doctoral students and PostDocs from the communication sciences, cognitive psychology, clinical neuroscience, and computer science.
Candidates for this advertised position should have an international publication record and experience in the acquisition and administration of third party funds. Research group leaders in HumTec will have a reduced teaching load and will be expected to participate in the HumTec graduate education programme.
This position is available for six years. Competition at all levels is an essential strategic guideline of RWTH Aachen University within the Institutional Strategy. In this context, the continuance of successful junior professorship as tenure-track position upon completion of the period set for the junior professorship will depend on personal performance, as well as on structural developments and planning of the university.
The RWTH Aachen aims to increase the number of women in areas in which they are under-represented, thus women are strongly encouraged to apply. For further information please see: www.rwth-aachen.de/equality
The RWTH Aachen aims to integrate persons with disabilities, thus persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. For further information please see: www.rwth-aachen.de/disabilities
The deadline for applications is August 31, 2008.
Please send a cover letter stating research aims and a CV to:
RWTH Aachen
Dekan der Philosophischen Fakultät
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Paul Hill
Templergraben 55
52062 Aachen
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