The Informatics Institute has a full-time vacancy for a Professor of Intelligent Sensory Information Systems.

We are seeking a candidate to chair the Intelligent Sensory Information Systems group. The candidate is expected to make significant contributions in world-class research and top quality academic teaching, as well as effective contributions to management and organization of the research group and the Informatics Institute.

The candidate is expected to sustain the group by acquiring funding from national, international, and industrial sources and actively contribute to exploitation of scientific research, thus contributing to the valorisation duty of the University.

We are looking for a candidate who has the ambition to lead a diverse research group. Someone who inspires the Intelligent Sensory Information Systems group, represents the group and maintains and further builds on the international academic visibility of the Intelligent Sensory Information Systems group. Someone who has a talent for, and a clear vision on university teaching and research.

We strongly encourage women to apply.

For a detailed job description you may check the:

• UvA website

We are looking for a creative and inspiring scientist with excellent managerial qualities and leadership capabilities.

The candidate should have:

• a clear vision on how to approach the current scientific challenges facing the field of Informatics;
• a PhD in Computer Science / Informatics or related field;
• an excellent track record of publications in leading international journals and conferences;
• evidence of international leadership in her/his field;
• experience in successful supervision of PhD students;
• experience in successful acquisition of funding, both on national and international level;
• a strong national and international network;
• experience in valorisation of research;
• experience in managing and guiding teams of researchers and have excellent management and communication skills;
• proven teaching skills, preferably with a certificate of academic teaching quality (Dutch BKO or equivalent), have excellent didactic qualities and affinity with the content of the Bachelors and Master programs in Artificial Intelligence.

We offer a challenging job at a dynamic and ambitious university, a permanent tenured appointment as full-time professor and an attractive package of fringe benefits, for instance: generous leave arrangements, application for attractive fiscal arrangements are possible for employees from abroad, attractive retirement benefits, collective health insurance and excellent parental leave packages.

The salary is in accordance with the university regulations for academic personnel, and will range from €5,260 up to a maximum of €7,659 gross per month (scale H2) before tax, based on a full-time appointment (38 hours per week), depending on expertise and previous experience. Gross monthly salaries are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for  Dutch Universities (CAO NU). The holiday allowance will be 8% per year and the end of year allowance 8.3%

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 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.

Informatics Institute

The Faculty of Science occupies a leading position internationally in its fields of research and participates in a large number of cooperative programmes with universities, research institutes and businesses. The faculty has a student body of around 6,000 and 1,500 members of staff, spread over eight research institutes and a number of faculty-wide support services. A considerable part of the research is made possible by external funding from Dutch and international organisations and the private sector. The Faculty of Science offers 11  Bachelor's degree programmes and 18 Master’s degree programmes in the fields of the exact sciences, computer science and information studies, and life and earth sciences.

Within the Faculty, the information sciences are organized in two research institutes, the Informatics Institute and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. The Informatics Institute encompasses around 270 members, organized in an education group, an administrative bureau and eight research groups that cooperate intensively, both formally and informally.