PostDoc/PhD Positions at L3S Research Center, Germany

The L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany, invites applications for one Postdoc and two Ph.D. research positions in the area of Large Scale Web Analytics and Information Retrieval. Your work will focus on temporal information retrieval, exploration and analytics. Investigating innovative and scalable solutions, you will be utilizing and extending distributed platforms such as Hadoop, HBase and Storm, and have the opportunity to shape and extend the computing cluster infrastructure of L3S. Your research will connect to our work in the EU funded projects ARCOMEM, ForgetIT and CUBRIK, and provide important input to the development of large scale Web observatories in the context of our WSTNet activities.

Your research will focus on topics in the following areas

• Distributed Crawling, Indexing and Analytics
• Distributed Algorithms and Data Processing
• Evolution-Aware Entity-Based Enrichment and Indexing
• Temporal Retrieval and Ranking

in a challenging and unique research environment.

You should possess good knowledge in one or several areas relevant for the topics specified in this announcement. Good proficiency in English is expected, as well as an outstanding M.Sc. or Ph.D. in computer science. German language skills are useful, but not mandatory. International experience during your studies or afterwards, as well as good social and communication skills are helpful.

The salary amounts to German TV-L E13/E14, which is roughly 40.000 to 50.000 Euro gross income per year.

Please submit your application including the usual documents as well as a list of references, preferrably by email, to

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl
L3S Research Center
Appelstrasse 4
30167 Hannover, Germany
http://www.L3S.de/
http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~nejdl/
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