Your tasks and responsibilities:

• perform novel research at the intersection of data integration and foundation models;
• develop benchmarking and evaluation environments;
• publish and present your work in journals and international conferences;
• contribute as a member of the UNIFIED project interacting professionally with consortium members and stakeholders;
• be an active part of the Informatics Institute, in particular, Intelligent Data Engineering (INDElab) group, and their activities;
• assist in educational activities and supervision of bachelor and master students.

We are looking for a candidate with:

• A PhD degree (or equivalent qualification) in AI or data management
• A strong scientific track record, documented by publications at high quality conferences and journals (e.g., SIGMOD, NeurIPS, CIKM WWW, ISWC, VLDB)
• Have excellent programming skills;
• Established expertise in deep learning  including experience with libraries such as Pytorch
• Have strong communication, presentation and writing skills;
• Enjoy working in a multidisciplinary research environment;
• Are highly motivated and creative;
• Have an excellent command of English.

Not required, but helpful:

• Experience with biomedical data/algorithms
• An affinity for applications of technology
• Contributions to open source projects

We offer a temporary employment contract for 38 hours per week for a period of 18 months. The preferred starting date is as soon as possible.

The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 3,546 to € 5,538 (scale 10).This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile Researcher 4 is applicable. A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable.

Besides the salary and a vibrant and challenging environment at Science Park we offer you multiple fringe benefits:

• 232 holiday hours per year (based on fulltime) and extra holidays between Christmas and 1 January;
• multiple courses to follow from our Teaching and Learning Centre;
• a complete educational program for PhD students;
• multiple courses on topics such as leadership for academic staff;
• multiple courses on topics such as time management, handling stress and an online learning platform with 100+ different courses;
• 7 weeks birth leave (partner leave) with 100% salary;
• partly paid parental leave;
• the possibility to set up a workplace at home;
• a pension at ABP for which UvA pays two third part of the contribution;
• the possibility to follow courses to learn Dutch;
• help with housing for a studio or small apartment when you’re moving from abroad.

Are you curious to read more about our extensive package of secondary employment benefits, take a look here.