Z_GIS announcing 2 prof positions

The Inter-Faculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS at the University of Salzburg is advertising two tenure-track positions of assistant/associate professors in Geoinformatics / GIScience. With expected starting dates in the fall of 2015, these new positions have been awarded to Z_GIS recognizing its outstanding achievements in research and graduate education.

The new faculty are expected to contribute to Z_GIS' research agenda as well as to its Geoinformatics education programmes on MSc and PhD levels (including the GIScience doctoral college), plus teaching into the Geography Bachelor and other curricula.

Successful candidates are expected to have completed a PhD in a relevant discipline, have started to establish an innovative research record and a documented teaching experience. The full job advert is published in the June 4th university gazette (item #90, page 6). German language skills are essential.

At least one of the following research areas is expected to be at the core of candidates' track record:

• Softwareentwicklung im Bereich der Geoinformatik, mit Schwerpunkt auf Applikationsentwicklung auf aktuellen GI-Plattformen im Kontext verteilter Architekturen. 
• Kartographische Kommunikation und Geovisualisierung. Georeferenzierte Medien auf unterschiedlichen Plattformen einschließlich partizipativer Paradigmen. 
• Geodateninfrastrukturen, verteilte Geodatenbanken und offene Standards. Konzeption und Entwurf von Dienste-basierten GDI-Komponenten sowie Einsatz von OGC-Spezifikationen. 
• Erfassung, Organisation und Auswertung von Geodaten aus dem Gesamtspektrum an Sensoren. 
• Räumliche Analysemethoden zur Extraktion und Abstraktion von Information aus Geodaten, unter Berücksichtigung entscheidungsunterstützender Verfahren und WPS.