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The Department of Literary Studies and Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities is looking for an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, specialized in cognitive models of language, reasoning and/or music.
The ideal candidate has an excellent profile in both research and teaching.
The candidate is able to demonstrate being well-informed about different formal modelling methods and tools used in the cognitive sciences, AI and the humanities, and link modelling work to other research traditions in linguistics, musicology, and/or philosophy, and the humanities at large. The candidate is expected to contribute actively to the collaboration between the ILLC and the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC).The candidate’s profile also includes administrative (coordination, mentoring, etc.) tasks.
The candidate is expected to:
The contract is initially temporary for a period of two years. Subject to a positive assessment, it will be converted to a permanent contract. The start of the contract is scheduled for 1 August 2020.
The scope of the employment contract is 38 hours per week (1.0 FTE). The UFO profile of assistant professor applies to this position (salary scale 11/12, depending on relevant work experience). The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities applies.
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.
The Faculty of Humanities provides education and conducts research with a strong international profile in a large number of disciplines in the field of language and culture. Located in the heart of Amsterdam, the Faculty maintains close ties with many cultural institutes in the capital city. Research and teaching staff focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and are active in several teaching programmes.
The Faculty of Humanities offers assistant professors the opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers at research institutes that - partly as a result of their interdisciplinary approach - are world-renowned. Moreover, you will be teaching in a dynamic context in which new teaching methods are being developed.
The position will be embedded in the Linguistics section of the Department of Literary Studies & Linguistics in the faculty of Humanities. Research will be part of the Institute for Logic Language and Computation (ILLC).
Regarding teaching, the candidate is expected to play a prominent role in the new bilingual Dutch-English BSc programme Cognition, Language and Communication (CLC).
Teaching will also include tasks in other, related programmes.
The wide range of research in the humanities at the University of Amsterdam is organized in five research schools, which together form the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR). Each school covers an important research area within the Faculty of Humanities. In addition, the faculty also participates in a renowned interfaculty research institute with the Faculty of Science: the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation.
The central research area of the ILLC is the study of fundamental principles of encoding, transmission and comprehension of information. Research at ILLC is interdisciplinary, and aims at bringing together insights from various disciplines concerned with information and information processing, such as (computational) linguistics, logic, mathematics, computer science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, musicology and philosophy.
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