Are you a passionate teacher and ambitious researcher working on fundamental questions in AI? Are you looking for a faculty position in a stimulating academic environment? Then please read on.

Modern applications of AI in high-stakes domains such as health, law, or security call for solutions that can offer adequate levels of safety, accountability, transparency, responsibility, trustworthiness, and explainability. Such applications often are knowledge-intensive and depend on provably correct system behaviour. Requirements such as these necessitate the development of what in recent years have come to be known as model-based approaches to AI.

We are looking for a specialist in an area of model-based AI such as, for example, SAT solving, constraint programming, planning and scheduling, answer set programming, description logics, ontology engineering, or computer-aided verification. We hope that you will be able to connect with the long and proud research tradition in logic at the ILLC, while also reaching out to the broader AI research community in Amsterdam.

What are you going to do

As Assistant Professor, you will be expected to perform the following tasks:

• to develop an independent line of research in your area of expertise, resulting in contributions published in leading international venues;
• to eventually build up and coordinate a research team and supervise PhD candidates;
• to teach in AI and Computer Science, in programmes such as the BSc Computer Science, the BSc Artificial Intelligence, the MSc Artificial Intelligence, and the MSc Logic;
• to supervise Bachelor's and Master's students;
• to initiate and contribute to proposals for raising external funding;
• to contribute to research valorisation and outreach activities;
• to contribute to management tasks in education and research at the institute.

What do we require

We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic about both research and teaching. Since the position is partly financed from funds ear-marked for improving the quality of university education, it comes with a significant teaching component (a research:teaching ratio of 50:50, rather than the usual 60:40 at the ILLC).

We require:

• a PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline and some research experience at the postdoctoral level;
• excellent research skills, as evidenced by a track record of publications in renowned conference proceedings and journals;
• teaching experience at university level and demonstrable didactic abilities;
• commitment to supervising and mentoring students at all levels;
• willingness to acquire the Dutch Basic Teaching Qualification for academic staff (BKO) within two years of your appointment;
• the ability to communicate research findings to a broad audience;
• willingness and ability to perform relevant administrative and organisational tasks;
• team spirit and a strong affinity with the ILLC’s interdisciplinary environment;
• readiness to participate in interdisciplinary cooperation, within and beyond the institute;
• excellent communication and social skills;
• an excellent command of English and willingness to learn the Dutch language.

Fixed-term contract: two years.

We offer a temporary employment contract for a period of two years, preferably starting in March 2022, with the intention of converting it into a permanent contract after a positive assessment.

The gross monthly salary will range from €3,746 to €5,127 (scale 11), depending on relevant prior experience (assuming you choose a fulltime contract of 38 hours a week). The annual salary will be supplemented with an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus. A favourable tax agreement, the so-called ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities applies.

Are you curious about our extensive package of secondary employment benefits like our excellent opportunities for study and development? Then please take a look here.

University of Amsterdam

With over 6,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

Faculty of Science – Institute for Logic, Language and Computation

The Faculty of Science has a student body of around 7,000, as well as 1,600 members of staff working in education, research, and support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is an interdisciplinary research institute that aims at bringing together insights from various fields concerned with information and information processing, such as computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, logic, philosophy, mathematics, cognitive science, and musicology. The institute offers a friendly international research environment with world-class faculty in all of its areas of specialisation.