Job: Univ. Lecturership in Information Systems at Oxford University

Note: The following post is comparable to a tenure track Assistant
Professorship. Exceptionally it may be possible that a successful candidate
of higher academic seniority with an excellent track record be awarded the
title of Reader or Professor when appointed.

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Job Vacancy: University Lecturership in Information Systems

Web:   http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/jobs/ulis.html

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division Oxford University
Computing Laboratory and the Oxford e-Research Centre  in association with
St Cross College

UNIVERSITY LECTURERSHIP IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Applications are invited for a University Lecturership in Information
Systems. The successful candidate will also be appointed to a
non-stipendiary and non-tutorial Fellowship at St Cross College. The
University salary will be on a scale up to £51,095 per annum.


The lecturer will be a member of the Computing Laboratory and is expected
to be at the same time affiliated with the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC).
The OeRC is a new centre created as part of the Mathematical, Physical and
Life Sciences division, but engaging researchers from across the
University. It builds on the Oxford e-Science Centre and the successful
portfolio of industrial and academic e-Science projects. The centre will
bring together researchers across discipline domains, providing both a
focus on the use of new technologies in research methodologies and
informing the research agenda for new technologies and computer science
research.

The appointee will be expected to have a strong research and project record
in database technology and Web information systems and will be required to
do first class research in these areas at Oxford. Moreover, the applicant
should be willing and able to attract and carry out funded projects that
innovatively apply advanced database methods, Web data extraction
technology, and semantic Web techniques to relevant problems in e-Research,
in institutional repositories, library information systems or in other
areas of the Humanities or Social Sciences.

The appointee will also be expected to have the ability to teach
effectively over a wide range of topics in the Computer Science syllabus at
Oxford, not exclusively in the area of his or her research expertise The
closing date for applications is Friday 2nd February 2007.

For further information, including full details of the application
procedure and selection criteria, see:
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/jobs/ulis_fps.pdf
or send a request via email to: [email protected]

Oxford University is an Equal Opportunities Employer.