Assistant Professor in Socially Aware ICT

KTH – Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment in Socially Aware ICT at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek individuals with outstanding potential for research achievement, and a strong interest and commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching. We seek candidates that can add to or extend the current research areas at KTH with more emphasis being put on excellence than on candidates’ specific area of expertise. The position comes with a significant start package that will allow the successful candidate to quickly establish their own research group.

KTH carries out a wide range of internationally renowned research related to Socially Aware ICT.

Research groups working in social robotics, computer vision, speech technology and human–computer interaction, comprise part of the School of Computer Science and Communication. For more information about the school, see www.kth.se/csc

Research groups in technology in caring sciences and health systems engineering comprise part of the School of Technology and Health. For more information about the school, see www.kth.se/sth

For further information and details on application procedure see www.kth.se/applytoassistantprofessor

Application deadline is May 29, 2015.

Applicants having earned their PhD no later than May 2008 will be given priority. The term of appointment is expected to begin around November 2015, or later depending on availability.

Contacts:

Prof Danica Kragic, Head of Centre for Autonomous systems, danik@csc.kth.se

Prof Joakim Gustafson, Head of department of Speech, Music and Hearing, jocke@speech.kth.se

Prof Britt Östlund, School of Technology and Health, brittost@kth.se

Ass Prof Hedvig Kjellström, Head of the Computer Vision and Active Perception Lab, hedvig@csc.kth.se

Prof Kia Höök, Head of MobileLife, khook@kth.se

Prof Roberto Bresin, Department of Media Technology and Interaction Design, oberto@kth.se