DOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven (Belgium)

We are currently recruiting for a full-time Doctoral Position to join a new research group on the management, retrieval and mining of data and content at K.U. Leuven.

The candidate will work with Prof. Bettina Berendt (http://www.berendt.de/bettina), playing a key role in projects and field-building activities.
Further research context is given by the Hypermedia and Databases Group (http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~hmdb/joomla/), which we will be extending.

The goal of the envisaged PhD project is to supplant the currently dominating approaches to protecting privacy (legal, technological, and market-oriented), which have so far failed to solve the problem, by a technology-based approach to learning and teaching privacy literacy as an essential component of information literacy. The approach will integrate state-of-the-art techniques from knowledge discovery from data distributed over Web and other ubiquitous environments.
The aim of the project is to design and create tools for privacy-literacy education/training and to deploy and test them in real environments (the Web, especially Web 2.0 platforms, ubiquitous environments).

The closing date for receiving statements of interest is 15 Aug 2007; for receiving final applications the closing date is 31 August 2007.

Qualifications

We are inviting applications from persons holding a degree, or expecting to finish their degree by this autumn, in Computer Science or a related field. The project requires good knowledge and skills in databases, knowledge discovery (in particular, Web mining), and user interfaces. The candidate should have a firm foundation in at least one of these areas and demonstrate the willingness to learn about the others. In addition, the interdisciplinary nature of this project requires that the candidate has the system-oriented and application-oriented view of Information Systems Science, and that s/he has, or is willing to acquire, the necessary knowledge from Psychology and Educational Science. Hands-on experience with installing, using and extending/building research-oriented software tools and platforms is expected.
Ideally, the candidate should have experience in interdisciplinary research and the ability to communicate research results in international and interdisciplinary contexts.

Position and application details

We are offering a four-year full-time position working towards a PhD degree at the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering at K.U. Leuven, one of the oldest and highly renowned universities in Europe (http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/). Leuven is located close to Brussels, in the Flemish part of Belgium. The position involves research and teaching activities.

Please contact Bettina Berendt (bettina.berendt@gmail.com) with a short and expressive statement of interest and CV, before proceeding to application formalities, and by August 15. (The formal details can be found at http://phd.kuleuven.be/voorstellen_departement?departement=50000525.)

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