Open position for a tenure-track professorship (assistant, associate, full) - University of Lugano

Università della Svizzeria Italiana (University of Lugano) Faculty of Informatics Open position for one professorship (tenure-track assistant, associate, or full) The University of Lugano (Switzerland) invites applications from candidates of international research standing for Full, Associate, or Assistant Professor positions in computer science. The new professors will be expected to conduct world-class research in computer science and to contribute to teaching at all levels. The Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano was established in October 2004. It offers Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD degrees in computer science, with an innovative, project-based, inter-disciplinary curriculum. The research of the current faculty falls in the areas of software engineering, distributed systems, networking, information retrieval, programming languages, computer architecture, automatic verification and computational science. We are looking to complement and extend our research areas. Applicants in selected areas of computer science are welcome with particular interest in programming languages, systems or theory with focus on multicore or cryptography. We particularly welcome candidates with a strong interest in developing systems and tools in support of their research and teaching. The official teaching language at the faculty is English. Basic requisites: - PhD or equivalent - Substantial research record commensurate with experience level Applications: Applications with curriculum vitae, list of publications, the names of three referees, and an overview of personal teaching and research goals should be sent in electronic form (preferably in PDF format) to the following email address: submission@unisi.ch. Deadline: Closing date for application is January 31st, 2010. The University of Lugano specifically encourages female candidates to apply with a view towards increasing the proportion of female professors. General information about the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Lugano can be found at http://www.inf.usi.ch. Address questions concerning these open positions to elisa.larghi@usi.ch.