3 PhD Positions, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016-2017)

The Royal Netherlands Academy Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and the VU University Amsterdam (VU) invite applications for three PhD positions for four years. The positions are part of the project 'Re-SEARCH: Contextual Search for Scientific Research Data', which is jointly funded by Elsevier and NWO.

Scientific, technical and medical knowledge is built on research data. It increasingly plays a similar role in the social sciences and humanities. Research datasets are either deposited by researchers or automatically extracted from publications. The Re-SEARCH project proposes to create open source search and recommenda-tion solutions for research datasets so as to enable their re-use.

Within the Re-SEARCH project, three PhD students will work on search, representation and user aspects of research datasets. These PhD students will be based at different academic locations and the team as a whole will have regular meetings at Elsevier’s Amsterdam offices.

Tasks
- Conduct computer science research (positions 1 and 2) or information science research (position 3) with a special focus on academic search and research data;
- publish in top tier conferences and journals in relevant areas;
- provide teaching assistance (10%);
- complete a PhD thesis.

Further details:
http://www.academictransfer.com