PhD Position - Corporate Semantic Web - Free University Berlin, Germany

We are looking for a doctoral candidate in Computer Science with a
focus on Corporate Semantic Web.


The Corporate Semantic Web Group (AG CSW) at the Free University
Berlin (http://www.fu-berlin.de/), one of the Elite Universities
in Germany, is looking for an excellent PhD candidate to work as a
researcher in the BMBF funded project Corporate Semantic
Web (http://www.corporate-semantic-web.de).

Corporate Semantic Web (CSW) aims to establish economically beneficial
adoption of Semantic Web technologies in corporate environments.
The objective of CSW is to integrate all the required pieces of
knowledge and technologies, including modern Web-technologies and
enterprise service technologies, corporate information systems,
semantic business process management, Corporate Semantic Web, ontology
engineering, semantic search and collaborative applications.

The successful candidate will join an internationally renowned
research group working on a cutting edge research problem in an
attractive and stimulating environment within one of Germans top
universities and computer science departments; she/he will be expected
to contribute to all aspects of the group's activities, including
publishing at and attending international conferences and workshops.

The candidate should have:

* a Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or Information Systems
* a strong background/interest in Semantic Web (rules, ontologies) and
its applications
* a background/interest in other Knowledge Representation paradigms
such as logic programming
* a background/interest in Semantic Business Process Management,
Service Oriented Architecture, Complex Event Processing
* a willingness to travel to project meetings and to work on project
deliverables
* a willingness to work in an international team
* good proficiency in English

The post is available immediately and is a fixed term appointment for
three years until January 2011. As an employee of the university you
will receive a competitive salary (BAT IIa). The research in this
project must be concluded with the attainment of a PhD degree in
Computer Sciences.

We encourage interested candidates to send their curriculum vitae, a
letter of motivation, a list of publications, and digital versions of
three of their most relevant work, as well as electronic copies of the
certificates of all academic qualifications held, to

Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke
paschke@inf.fu-berlin.de

quoting the reference *Pos CSW*.


The review of applications will start immediately until the position is
filled.
The closing date for applications is Tuesday 20th January 2009.


Kind regards,

Adrian Paschke