Researcher

The Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is searching for 1 full-time Researcher in the area of “Question Answering in the Web of Data”. 

The position is for 1 year only and it is available immediately.
The position is offered in the frame of the EU-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie International Training Network WDAqua: Answering Questions using Web Data, which has started in January 2015. 
The project undertakes fundamental and applied research into models, methods and tools for data-driven question answering on the Web. More information about the project is available here: http://wdaqua.informatik.uni-bonn.de/ 

The hired researcher will spend 1 year working in the WDAqua ITN. He/She will spend the majority of his/her time at the University of Athens, but he/she will be encouraged to visit and engage with other partners in the project.

The gross monthly salary (including social security, before taxes) is about 2.280,00€ plus a mobility allowance of 600 €/month and, if applicable, a family allowance of 250 €/month.

Timeline
Application deadline: 31 January 2017
Envisaged job starting date: as soon as possible 

Contact
Professor 
Manolis Koubarakis (University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, MaDgIK Group, http://www.madgik.di.uoa.gr/) koubarak@di.uoa.gr