Postdoctoral Fellows in a Horizon Europe Funded Project deadline for submission - March 1, 2023

Required candidate’s qualifications and experience:

• Doctoral degree (or close to finishing) in electrical and electronic engineering, computer science, physics, artificial intelligence, robotics and automation, control engineering, data science, mathematics or closely related domains.
• Internationally recognized scientific expertise in the research field targeted by UWIN-LABUST.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Capability to work autonomously, entrepreneurial attitude, lifetime learner, team worker.

Desired candidate’s qualifications, experience and skills:

• Background in Signal processing, telecommunications, Networking, Machine learning, Control Theory, Information Theory, propagation, probability analysis.
• Applied and Theoretical Mathematics, in particular computation, complex systems and geometry of manifolds
• Python, C++, Linux, Matlab
• Gazebo, Blender, Mujoco, ROS, and/or similar
• Dockers, Containerization methods, Jupyter, Anaconda, Conda and/or similar
• Scikit, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras and/or similar
• OpenCV and/or similar
• Kaggle and/or similar

Our offer to the ERA UWIN-LABUST Fellows:

The selected candidate will be offered the following:

• A full-time employment contract in the duration of up to 4 years, i.e. until the project end (December 31, 2027).
• An internationally competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience, an attractive remuneration package, pension scheme, health insurance, and a minimum of 24 working days of an annual vacation.
• Substantial travel budget for conference attendance and networking.
• Support for relocation and settling in the City of Zagreb.

Application process:

Applicants are invited to submit the following documents:

1. A signed cover letter with motivation and career goals.
2. The candidate’s research record: list of publications (transcripts, and open links to all published papers) and patents.
3. A two-page summary of future research plans.
4. Curriculum Vitae.
5. At least two letters of reference with contact details of two academic faculty who can be contacted for an opinion on the candidate.
6. Any additional information the candidate finds useful for the evaluation process.

All the above documents in the electronic form compiled to a single file should be sent to uwin-labust@fer.hr mentioning “UWIN-LABUST – Postdoctoral Fellow” in the subject until March 1, 2023 (11:59 PM Central European Time). The candidate will get a confirmation email of the application submission and feedback on the outcome of the evaluation or the result of the eligibility check. All applications submitted until the deadline will be considered for evaluation and treated in full confidentiality. The application language is English.

Recruitment process:

The Postdoc Fellows will be recruited through an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process fully in compliance with the European Charter for Researchers and the EU Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The process will be carried out by the Recruitment Committee consisting of the ERA Chair holder, the UWIN-LABUST project coordinator, and three external members. Selection of the best applicants will be accomplished in two rounds.

In the application screening round, candidates will be evaluated based on the following criteria: Research outputs (35%), Fundraising abilities (18%), Management & leadership (15%), International visibility & mobility (10%), Mentoring & teaching (6%), Other academic activities (5%), Outreach & knowledge transfer (5%), Fieldwork experience (3%), Other merits (3%).

In the second round, up to six best ranked applicants will be invited for a teleconference interview to assess their research skills, presentation skills, technical expertise and self-management/interpersonal/leadership skills. The contract will be offered to the candidates with the highest final score.

Recruitment process timeline:

• Deadline for applications: March 1, 2023
• The results of the applications screening sent to applicants: by end March 2023
• Teleconference interviews with the shortlisted applicants: by end of April 2023
• The results of the teleconference interviews: by end of May 2023
• The expected start date of the employment: July 1^st, 2023

Eligibility criteria:

Any candidate fulfilling these Job Announcement requirements is eligible for application, regardless of gender, age, nationality, race or ethnicity.

Work location:

University of Zagreb

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER)

Department of Control and Computer Engineering

Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies

Further information:

For any further information or request, please do not hesitate to contact us at uwin-labust@fer.hr with the email subject “UWIN-LABUST – YOUR LAST NAME”.

Note:

Please include in your cover letter the following statement:

„I agree to the processing of personal data provided in this document for realizing the recruitment process pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Act of 10 May 2018 (Journal of Laws 2018, item 1000 and in agreement with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).”

Some useful links:

• UNIZG-FER mission, vision and development strategy
• https://www.lovezagreb.hr
• http://www.zagrebexpat.com/site/