Fwd: PhD position in computer sciences in the context of ERC project “Processing Citizenship”

[Machanje Daniel]

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Date: Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:53 AM
Subject: Fwd: PhD position in computer sciences in the context of ERC project “Processing Citizenship”
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Objet: Fwd: PhD position in computer sciences in the context of ERC project “Processing Citizenship”
Date: 05.09.2017 10:42
De: Meryem Marzouki <Meryem....@lip6.fr>
À: tout-lip6 <tout...@lip6.fr>

Bonjour à tous,

Je retransmets cette offre de thèse à l’université de Twente, dans
un département de recherche fortement pluridisciplinaire (sciences,
technologies, société). La thèse est entièrement financée dans le
cadre d’un ERC. Le profil recherché est plutôt orienté analyse de
données, IA, etc., avec un fort intérêt pour les questions de
société liées.
Toutes les informations nécessaires figurent ci-dessous.
Bien cordialement,
Meryem Marzouki

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OBJET: PHD POSITION IN COMPUTER SCIENCES IN THE CONTEXT OF ERC PROJECT
“PROCESSING CITIZENSHIP”

DATE: 4 septembre 2017 19:09:08 UTC+2

À: <Meryem....@lip6.fr>

Dear Meryem,

[…]
I am forwarding you a call for a PhD position in my ERC project, for a
person with an IT background.

Thanks for forwarding in case you know some brilliant and engaged
prospective student.

Kind regards,
Annalisa

ANNALISA PELIZZA

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY STUDIES | FACULTY OF BEHAVIOURAL,
MANAGEMENT & SOCIAL SCIENCES | UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
T +31 (0)53 489 2709 | Email a.pe...@utwente.nl [1]| Campus building
Ravelijn, room RA 4408 | PObox 217, 7500 AE Enschede, Nederland
|http://www.utwente.nl/bms/steps/people/scientific/pelizza/ [2]

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The Department of Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS) [3]
at the University of Twente is hiring ONE DOCTORAL RESEARCHER WITH A
BACKGROUND IN COMPUTER SCIENCES to join the ERC-funded project
‘Processing Citizenship: Digital registration of migrants as
co-production of citizens, territory and Europe’
(ProcessCitizenship), with Dr. Annalisa Pelizza [4] as Principal
Investigator. The position is fully-funded and requires commitment to
the project’s goals.

PROJECT AND WORK DESCRIPTION
In the Processing Citizenship project we want to learn how data
infrastructures for migration management transform the way we come to
experience European (individual and institutional) identities.
As a PhD, you have a strong computer science background – notably in
data analytics, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence or
related fields – while at the same time you should be interested in
working in an interdisciplinary team, with heterogeneous but
complementary research goals. You are expected to analyse ontologies
and algorithms, to compare them across different institutional
information systems, to design and develop strategies to measure and
enhance data quality under uncertain conditions, to increase
interoperability among databases, and to develop systems to track and
visualize data circulation.
The appointee will work as part of a trans-disciplinary team of six,
including ethnographers, computer scientists and social scientists,
under the supervision of the Principal Investigator and co-supervision
by CTIT, the Institute for ICT research in Context (CTIT,
https://www.utwente.nl/ctit/).

ACTIVITIES
You will be presented with three main research challenges. The first
challenge requires to extract and analyse data models from
heterogeneous institutional sources. The second challenge will require
you to design strategies for increasing data quality across
not-yet-interoperable data architectures and in uncertain conditions.
The third challenge will require you to engage in interdisciplinary
work with non-technical team members, as required by this
inter-disciplinary ERC project.

In particular, you will be expected to conduct the following
activities:
- to conduct techno-social analysis of data models and algorithms (in
collaboration with other team members), e.g., how are the same types
of data classified in different information systems, and with which
effects?;
- to design and develop strategies to measure and enhance data quality
under uncertain conditions, and increase interoperability of
migrant-related databases (in collaboration with CTIT’s data science
group);
- to design and develop software to track and visualize data
circulation (in collaboration with UT’s ITC faculty);
- to provide support to interviews with IT developers at European and
national agencies level.

PROFILE
You have a master degree in Computer Sciences, Data Science,
Information Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Business IT or close
disciplines.

Essential:
·         Master degree completed by the deadline
·         Highly proficient in data analysis and management
·         Expert understanding of  database architectures, including
interpreting data sets modelled in heterogeneous ways
·         Proficiency in English as daily working language
·         Commitment to the project’s success, willingness to
collaborate in a research team, share data, write joint publications
and acquire social science-related skills
·         Excellent administrative and organizational skills,
including the ability to plan one’s  work, meet deadlines,
familiarity with resource management and willingness to accept
Horizon2020 administrative and ethical behaviour guidelines

Desirable
·         Experience as non-graduate student supervisor
·         Understanding of the potential non-academic impact of the
research and ways of engaging with it
·         Knowledge of major sociological literature on data
infrastructures

By the end of the program, even if this is not the core of your
activities, you will also acquire skills in sociological analysis of
information systems. A similar combination of techno-social skills is
not only more and more key to access middle-high positions in
engineering environments, but it is also functional to achieve a
thorough understanding of the social impact of data infrastructures.
You will develop cutting-edge research skills, e.g. by being able to
acknowledge and tackle the methodological limitations and design
constraints that software-based techniques impose on hypothesis
formulation and testing.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
We offer a full-time contract spanning a period of four years. The
appointee is expected to take office as soon as possible in fall 2017.
The monthly salary starts at € 2.222 gross per month in the first
year, leading up to € 2.840 gross per month in the last year.
The terms of employment are in accordance with the Dutch Collective
Labor Agreement for Universities [5] (CAO).

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
You should submit your application via

https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/1261362

before October 1, 2017 h. 23:59 (CET).
Applications should include:
·         a motivation letter describing why you would be a good fit
for this interdisciplinary project, and why you wish to embark on a
PhD trajectory;
·         curriculum vitae, including university qualifications and
grades;
·         an article or other recent research output clearly showing
your expertise in data management;
·         email and telephone contact information for two referees
(for PhD position, please notify them in advance that they might be
contacted).

EMPLOYER
Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STEPS) at the University of
Twente is one of the historically leading European departments in
Science and Technology Studies (STS). The Faculty of Behavioural,
Management and Social sciences (BMS) fosters high quality
trans-disciplinary knowledge in STS, philosophy and history of science
and technology, among other disciplines. THE UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
stands for science and technology under the ‘High tech, Human
touch’ motto; research and education that address grand societal
challenges from a high-level scholarly perspective.

For more information, see

https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/1261362

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Meryem Marzouki - Lab. LIP6 - CNRS & UPMC Sorbonne Universités - Paris,
France
Twitter: @MM_PolyTIC - Email: Meryem....@lip6.fr - Web:
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[2] http://www.utwente.nl/bms/steps/people/scientific/pelizza/
[3] https://www.utwente.nl/bms/steps/
[4] https://www.utwente.nl/bms/steps/people/scientific/pelizza/
[5] http://www.vsnu.nl/en_GB/cao-universiteiten.html
[6] http://www-polytic.lip6.fr

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Kind Regards,

Daniel Isoso Machanje

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