[Gfgi] Postdoc Position in Data Management

[Chris Schmullius]

The Heinz-Nixdorf Endowed Chair for Practical Computer Science at the
Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany is looking for a Data
Manager for the Biodiversity Exploratories project
(http://www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/).

The Biodiversity Exploratories are a large scale research project funded
by the German Science Foundation. Three Exploratories in different parts
of Germany serve as an open research platform for all biodiversity and
ecosystem research groups of Germany.  The aim of the Exploratories is
to understand the relationship between biodiversity of different taxa,
to understand the role of land use for biodiversity and to understand
the role of biodiversity for ecosystem processes. It is the task of the
data management group to provide a platform for management and long-term
availability of all data collected or computed by all projects within
the Exploratories.

The head of our data management team is responsible for the coordination
of the work, conceptual work for the further development of the
established information system BExIS, and representing the working group
within the Exploratories and beyond.

More information about the work of the data management group in general
and BExIS in particular can be found, e.g., here:
http://fusion.cs.uni-jena.de/professur/publications/2011

The successful candidate should
* hold a PhD in computer science or a related discipline or one of the
natural sciences
* have worked on data management for ecological research data or a
related area
* possess excellent communication skills and be experienced in managing
a team
* communicate fluently in English, knowledge of German is helpful but
not necessary
* be experienced in object-oriented development (preferably .NET or
Java) and relational DBMS (ideally IBM DB2 with pureXML).
* ideally also know something about XML technologies, GIS, and/or
statistics.

The position starts as soon as possible and is a 3-year, full-time
position. Excellent candidates are invited to apply prior to August,
24th 2011 preferably by Email to Carola.Eichner at uni-jena.de. Please
include all relevant material into one (reasonably sized) PDF file and
refer to ?Announcement 106/2011?.

Contact:
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Institut für Informatik
Prof. Dr. Birgitta König-Ries
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2
07743 Jena
Germany
Email:  Birgitta.Koenig-Ries at uni-jena.de.