Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences has an open position as a post-doctoral researcher for two years with possible extension for one additional year.

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

With about 16,000 students, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences is one of the largest higher education institutions in Norway. A broad range of academic programmes are offered at Bachelor, Master and PhD levels, spread out on five campuses Førde, Sogndal, Bergen, Stord og Haugesund.

Our ambition is to build stronger and more solid academic and research environments that will interact nationally and internationally. The aim is to become a recognized actor on the international higher education arena. Increased international cooperation and engagement in externally funded projects will work towards this goal.

The post-doctoral position is initially linked to the EU Horizon 2020 project COEMS - Continuous Observation of Embedded Multicore Systems (https://www.coems.eu) which concentrates on runtime verification and testing of software in industrial automation. HVL is partner in the COEMS project together with five academic and industrial partners, including Airbus and Thales. The postdoctoral researcher will also be more broadly involved in ongoing research efforts within modeldriven software engineering, automated code generation, software testing, quality, and verification.

Research environment

The researcher will be affiliated with the software engineering research group at HVL (https://ict.hvl.no/research/software-engineering/). The research group currently includes 10 professors and associate professors, two post-doctoral researchers, 10 PhD students, and several master’s students. The research results of the group are being applied in several externally funded projects in domains such as health, automotive, robotics, and fisheries. In particular, the group has conducted research in process modelling and improvement, process-aware software systems, cloud- based services, protocol software and networked embedded systems, and mobile applications. The research group has cooperation with many national and international research groups, and with national and regional industry partners.

Workplace is Campus Bergen.

Key duties- and responsibilities:

The post-doctoral researcher will initially be involved in the COEMS project and in addition undertake research, prototyping, and software and tool development in collaboration with permanent staff members, post-doctoral researchers, and PhD students. The post-doctoral researcher may have some minor teaching and supervision duties in relation to the PhD programme in computer science offered by the Faculty. The successful applicant is also expected to contribute to project management, and the development of joint project applications for external funding in collaboration with the permanent research staff members. The post-doctoral research may also be involved in other externally funded research projects including the INTROMAT lighthouse project funded by the Norwegian Research Council on Introducing Personalized Treatment of Mental Health Problems using Adaptive Technology (http://intromat.no/)

Qualifications:

The successful applicant must have earned a PhD degree in informatics/computer science/software engineering or have submitted the PhD thesis before the application deadline. In the latter case, it is required that the PhD degree be awarded prior to the undertaking of interviews with shortlisted candidates.

The scientific profile must cover one or more of the following areas:

• Foundations, applications and software tool development for model-driven software engineering;
• Formal modelling languages for concurrent and distributed systems;
• Software verification, testing, and quality;
• Static analysis for concurrency issues, refactoring support, and software quality.

In addition to the required educational background and scientific profile, the following criteria will be evaluated:

• Publication track record and quality of publications
• Quality and relevance of the PhD thesis
• Ability to work in the intersection of theoretical and applied research
• Experience with the writing of funding applications
• Practical software engineering skills and experience from industrial collaboration

Applicants will also be evaluated against their prospective starting date, capacity for dissemination, their ability to collaborate, as well as their potential for establishing relevant national and international research contacts. Short-listed candidates might be required to give a research presentation, in addition to an interview.

Application procedure:

To apply for this position, please use the link “Apply for this job” (“Søk stillingen”).

The applications will be assessed by the information entered in www.jobbnorge.no at the application deadline. The applicants are responsible for ensuring that all the documentation is submitted before the closing date, including the scientific work (up to 15 pieces), complete publication list, certificates and diplomas. If the diplomas, transcripts or other documentation are not in a scandinavian language or English, the applicant must upload the certified transactions himself. If the attachments exceed 15 MB, they must be compressed before uploading or attaching as a link.

The applications will be sent electronically to the expert committee. Based on the committee's recommendation, qualified applicants will be invited to an interview and an trial lecture. Applications cannot be sent by e-mail or to individuals at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

We offer:

• Good occupational pension, insurance and loan schemes from The Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund
• Exciting academic environment with the possibility of competence enhancement and development
• Opportunities for training within the working hours

The position as post-doctoral researcher is paid according to the Government's salary regulation, in position code 1352 - post-doctoral researcher

There is a compulsory 2 % deduction to the pension fund (see http://www.spk.no/en for more information). The successful applicant must comply with the guidelines that apply to the position at any time.

General information:

The appointment will be made in accordance with the regulations for State employees Law in Norway ("Lov om statens ansatte)". Organizational changes and changes in the duties and responsibilities associated with the position must be expected.

State employment shall reflect the multiplicity of the population at large to the highest possible degree. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Bergen has therefore adopted a personnel policy objective to ensure that we achieve a balanced age and gender composition and the recruitment of persons of various ethnic backgrounds.

Information about the applicant may be made public even though the applicant has requested not to be named in the list of applicants. The applicant will be notified if his/her request is not respected. Applicants may be called in for an interview.

Contacts:

1) Associate Professor Volker Stolz, phone: +47 55 58 75 86, email: Volker.Stolz@hvl.no

2) Professor . Lars Michael Kristensen, phone: +47 55 58 71 64, email: Lars.Michael.Kristensen@hvl.no

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