[SEM-GRD] Postdoctoral Position - eInfrastructure for Social Science at University of Aberdeen

[Pete Edwards]

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Computing Science
University of Aberdeen

£26,915 - £32,137 per annum

The PolicyGrid project within the Department of Computing Science 
invites applications for the above post, to work on a new 
eInfrastructure activity funded by the ESRC eSocial Science Programme.

PolicyGrid (http://www.policygrid.org) is one of the Economic & Social Research 
Council (ESRC) National Centre for eSocial Science research nodes. 
The ESRC has recently committed to the construction of an e-Infrastructure 
on the UK National Grid Service (NGS) to provide integrated access to a variety
of resources for social science research, including datasets, tools, services 
and easy-to-use user environments.

You will focus on the development of Grid services and software tools in 
the context of the metadata infrastructure and simulation workpackages 
of the ESRC eInfrastructure effort. These include (but are not 
restricted to) the following: making an existing natural language 
interface for creation of RDF metadata robust, pluggable and usable; 
developing a Grid based metadata/ontology infrastructure; simulation 
portal development; Grid-enabling social simulation models. The work 
will entail extensive collaboration with other sites involved in the 
eInfrastructure project, and regular access grid, telephone and 
face-to-face conferences. There will be a requirement to produce 
documentation throughout the project, to include: regular progress 
updates, workpackage reviews, software tool documentation.

You should have a PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline. You 
are expected to be a highly competent programmer in Java, and have 
experience of Semantic Web technologies (including OWL and RDF), 
Web/Grid services, e-science, and related areas. Knowledge of workflow 
approaches in e-science would be desirable. The work will involve 
development of robust software, within a managed project environment; it 
is therefore important that you have knowledge and experience of 
software engineering principles and standards.

The post is being offered for 21 months and is available immediately.

Closing Date: 15 June 2007

Full details can be found here:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=YCS060R

Informal enquiries can be made to:

Dr Peter Edwards (PolicyGrid Node Director)
pedwards at csd.abdn.ac.uk


Application forms and further particulars are available from Human 
Resources, University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, 
tel: +44 (0)1224 272727 quoting reference number YCS060R. A 24-hour 
answering service is in operation.

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