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')
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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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