Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 17:30
02/15/2010 23:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Job description:
Duties of the successful candidate will include conducting research in Geovisual Analytics, publishing in international refereed journals, assisting PhD students and helping with organisational and other activities of StratAG and NCG.
Example research topics:
- Geovisual analytics for movement data and spatio-temporal trajectories
- Knowledge discovery from large marine acoustic datasets with geovisual analytics
- Spatio-temporal data mining using spatial statistics and geovisual analytics
- Geovisual analytics for Infrared thermography
- Dimensionality reduction for spatial visualisation and visual knowledge discovery
- Other topics in Geovisual Analytics related to research in StratAG
Requirements:
The successful candidate will:
- have, or be about to complete, a PhD in a relevant discipline: GIScience, geocomputation, geoinformatics, computer science, applied mathematics, spatial statistics, etc.
- have programming skills and the ability to develop software to support his/her research ideas
- have the ability to perform, document and publish independent research,
- be highly motivated to work in a rapidly evolving field,
- be personable and be able to work with a diverse group of researchers,
- be adaptable and able to handle a wide range of tasks.
Annual brutto salary:
€40000
Job duration:
1+2 years
Contact:
Dr. Urska Demsar
National Centre for Geocomputation
John Hume Building National
University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
E-mail: urska.demsar@nuim.ie
The National Centre for Geocomputation offers a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher in Geovisual Analytics within the StratAG project.
Location:
National Centre for GeocomputationMaynooth
Ireland
53° 22' 52.3812" N, 6° 35' 32.136" W