As a PhD candidate you will study information retrieval over large and evolving graphs. How can we combine structured queries formulated in a graph query language with ’keyword’ queries, and express ranking functions that take into account the graph structure? What query processing techniques can enable scalable and efficient retrieval systems over evolving graphs?

- an MSc degree in a relevant area (computer science or a cognate discipline);
- excellent programming skills;
- good social skills and a good command of spoken and written English.

you will be appointed for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2.5 years
- you will be classified as a PhD Candidate in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO)
the gross starting salary amounts to €2,222 per month, and will increase to €2,840 in the fourth year
The Faculty of Science is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and as such encourages applications from women and minorities.

Radboud University

Strategically located in Europe, Radboud University is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. A place with a personal touch, where top-flight education and research take place on a beautiful green campus in modern buildings with state-of-art facilities.

http://www.ru.nl

Faculty of Science

You will be employed in the Data Science section of the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS). This is a PhD position funded by the SQIREL-GRAPHS project of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). With consortium partners Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (the MonetDB team), Neo Technology (the company behind graph database neo4j) and Databricks (the company behind data science framework Spark), we look for real impact in use cases in webcare (with Dutch market leader OBI4WAN), web search for children (with WizeNoze) and searching cultural heritage collections (with Spinque).

Strategically located in Europe, Radboud University is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. Radboud University is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and as such encourages applications from women and minorities. The university offers customised facilities to better align work and private life. Parents are entitled to partly paid parental leave and Radboud University employees enjoy flexibility in the way they structure their work. The university highly values the career development of its staff, which is facilitated by a variety of programmes.

No commercial propositions please.

http://www.ru.nl/datascience/ ; http://www.ru.nl/icis/