Full professorship in Communication and Cognition, Tilburg (The Netherlands)

The Tilburg center for Communication and Cognition (TiCC) is looking for an enthousiastic and competent colleague for the position of Full Professor. Excellent young candidates who do not yet qualify for a full professorship, are also invited to apply, and will initially be offered an associate professorship.

The candidate is expected to initiate and conduct fundamental and applied research in the Creative Computing (CC) research program. Within the program, the research currently focuses on computational modeling of cognitive processes, with application domains in language, vision, games and social signal processing. Furthermore, the candidate contributes (both in terms of teaching and organization) to the teaching program Communication and Information Sciences, in particular in the track Human Aspects of Information Technology (HAIT) and in the new track Data Journalism. The candidate has an important task in acquiring external projects and in managing tasks on the department and faculty level. Experience with applying computational techniques to humanities research in general is considered a bonus.

Full details can be found here: http://erec.uvt.nl/vacancy?inc=UVT-EXT-2011-0517. Applications including curriculum vitae and names of three referents must be submitted before February 1, 2012.