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Research Assistant in Ancient History

Employer
Global Academy Jobs
Location
Switzerland
Closing date
Jul 20, 2018

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Sector
Art and Humanities
Hours
Full Time
Organization Type
University and College
Jobseeker Type
Academic (e.g. 'Lecturer')

Job Details

The four-years project "Reuniting fragments, identifying scribes and characterizing scripts: the Digital paleography of Greek and Coptic papyri" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted in the University of Basel offers a 50% position for a technical lead.

 

Your position

  • You will be in charge of the creation and improvement of tools allowing writer identification and script classification from ancient papyri written in Greek and Coptic.
  • You must testify advanced skills in one or several of the following topics: Handwritten Document Analysis, Digital Palaeography, Writer Identification, Handwriting Recognition, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Feature Representation, Machine Learning.

 

Your profile

  • PhD-holders in Computer Sciences and experience in the topic(s) mentioned above will be preferred.
  • Applicants with Master and/or able to attest a strong experience and motivation in the field will be considered.

 

We offer you

  • Start date: September 01, 2018 – 21h/week
  • Duration of the contract: 4 years
  • A dynamic work environment in a small and highly motivated team
  • The salary is paid according to the guidelines of the University of Basel and the Swiss National Science Foundation

 

Company

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