Academic Staff Member bei Universität Potsdam

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The University of Potsdam was founded in 1991 and has firmly established itself within the scientific landscape and
developed into an outstanding economic factor and growth engine for the region. The University of Potsdam excels
in acquiring third-party funds, has received multiple teaching awards, has a very service-oriented administration,
and has been honored several times for its family-friendly culture. About 21,000 students and 3,000 employees
study and work at three campuses – Am Neuen Palais, Griebnitzsee and Golm – at one of Germany’s most scenic
institutions of higher education.

The Faculty of Science/Institute of Computer Science at the University of Potsdam invites

applications for the following position initially limited to 24 months, which will be filled as soon

as possible:

Academic Staff Member (f/m/d)
ID no. 334/2024

The successful candidate will work 40 hours per week (100 %). The position is classified within

remuneration group 13 of the collective wage agreement among the German states (TV-L).

The fixed term of employment is in accordance with Section 2 subsection 1 of the German Act

on Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in Science and Academia (Wissenschaftszeitver-

tragsgesetz or WissZeitVG). If necessary, an extension is possible if personal and legal re-

quirements are met.

Your Field of Work:

Aggregating and processing data (Big Data) at a centralized cloud platform is not adequate to

meet the requirements of modern applications (e.g., IoT-enabled applications). Geographically

distributed resources throughout the network including routers, fog nodes, edge devices, and

back-end data centers can all be leveraged for compute and storage. The focus of this re-

search will be development of large-scale middleware platforms across geo-distributed net-

works that facilitate realization of modern applications. In particular, the research topics to fo-

cus on are event-based communication, stream/complex event processing (CEP), and frame-

works for data analytics.

Further details on the field of work can be found here:

https://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~bhowmik/research/

The Scope of Your Responsibilities:

Independent research and corresponding specialization with a qualification

Participation in the research work of the professorship, especially in the area of distributed

networked systems and middleware systems

Teaching responsibilities including preparation of exercises, teaching material, websites for

the courses

Further professional development through self-study, conference attendance, scientific con-

tacts

At least one third of the working time is available for in-depth academic work with the aim of

obtaining a qualification.

The teaching load is based on the currently valid requirements of the Lehrverpflichtungsver-

ordnung (LehrVV) of the State of Brandenburg and the regulation for calculating the teaching

load adopted by the Senate of the University of Potsdam. The position is assigned to the group

of academic staff "with a focus on research".

Your Qualifications:

Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science

Sufficient knowledge in the area of distributed systems and computer networks

Sufficient programing skills in C, C++/Java/Python

What We Offer:

As a university, we combine the strong potential for development of a teaching and research

institution with the attractive working conditions of the public sector. The University of Potsdam

is a reliable employer that supports its employees with a variety of offers and benefits:

Make the most of the various continuing education and networking opportunities offered by

the University of Potsdam to refine your subject-specific and interdisciplinary competencies

for professional as well as personal growth.

All campuses have good transport connections. You can receive a monthly subsidy for the

public transport job ticket and use our campus bicycles.

Benefit from a company pension scheme, a special annual payment, and capital-forming

benefits.

Take advantage of the various offers from our Occupational Health Management unit as

well as the Academic Sports Center.

To improve employees’ work-life balance, the University of Potsdam offers flexible working

hours and a defined share of remote working hours (e.g. work from home). You have 30

vacation days per year and are also exempt from work on December 24 and 31. Our Service

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