The University of Paderborn (Germany) announces the following position in its Computer Science Institute at the earliest possible date:

Junior Professorship (W 1)

for Algorithmic Game Theory
(Reference Number 1212)

The employment will be based on the status as a civil servant for a fixed period of time of three years, where after positive evaluation the employment is to be extended for further three years. A continuation in a permanent employment (“tenure track“) is impossible.

Applicants should be outstandingly qualified in research and teaching in the field of Algorithmic Game Theory.

Applicants are required to be willing to cooperate and to play an active part in our main research focus “Dynamic and Self-Coordination in Networks“ at the Computer Science Institute of the University of Paderborn. In particular, applicants are expected to play an active part in our interdisciplinary scientific institutions like the Collaborative Research Centre 901 “On-The-Fly Computing“, the C-LAB, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, the PC², the s-lab, and the NRW International Graduate School “Dynamic Intelligent Systems“.

Conditions of employment:
§ 36, section 1, number 1 to 3 of the HG of NRW as amended on October 31^st, 2006 (a full academic qualification, PhD, educational aptitude).

Applications from women are particularly welcome and, in case of equal qualifications and experiences, will receive preferential treatment according to the North Rhine-Westphalian Equal Opportunities Act (LGG), unless there are preponderant reasons to give preference to another applicant. Applications from disabled people with appropriate suitability are explicitly welcome. This also applies to people with equal opportunities in accordance with the German social law SGB IX.

Applications must be submitted until February 29^th, 2012 and marked with the above given Reference Number. Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae and a list of publications to: