Tenure Track Associate Professor in Statistics (Data Analysis) at the University of Tampere, Finland

Applications are invited for a tenure track appointment to an associate professorship in Statistics (Data Analysis) at the School of Information Sciences in the University of Tampere, Finland. The successful applicant will be appointed for a fixed term of five years.

The fields represented at the School of Information Sciences include a wide selection of disciplines concerned with the processing, management and use of information and data. The School of Information Sciences is now setting up a new English-language Master’s degree programme in Data Analysis that combines data analysis methods from statistics and computer science. The successful candidate for the associate professorship in statistics will have a central role in planning this Master’s degree programme and will mainly teach courses that are part of or contribute to this degree programme.

The person appointed associate professor must hold an appropriate doctoral degree, high-level academic qualifications and experience in directing scientific research, be able to provide high-quality, research-based instruction as well as to have a track record of international scientific activities. From the point of view of the associate professor’s tasks it is essential that the applicant is fluent in English.

The remuneration of the post is based on level 7 of the job-related salary element for teaching and research personnel in the salary system of the Finnish universities, at present EUR 3799,56 per month. In addition, a personal salary element based on personal performance is paid which is at most 46.3 {06fdc68f0c32a4bb4bc587245a8893a97471dc602b4e431d14a97651d507d6d7} of the job-related salary element.

The closing date for applications is at 15:45 (Finnish time) on Thursday 21 March 2013.

More information is at https://uta.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ&jid=76