[TYPES/announce] Research professor position in Secure Systems

[Pieter Philippaerts]

The Science, Engineering and Technology Group, Faculty of Engineering Science, Department of Computer Science of KU Leuven, invites scholars to apply for a full‐time research professorship in the DistriNet Research Group. This position is funded by the Special Research Fund (BOFZAP), established by the Flemish Government.

We are looking for motivated and internationally oriented candidates with an excellent research record and with educational competence in the field of Secure Systems. The appointment is expected to start on October 1, 2021. Applications will be evaluated in parallel and independently by 1) the KU Leuven Research Council in a competitive process across academic domains and 2) the faculty advisory committee. During the first 10 years, the teaching obligations as a research professor will be limited. Afterwards, the position will be transformed into a regular professorship.

We are looking for a candidate with demonstrated expertise in secure systems, who has already obtained excellent research results on some topics within this area, including but not limited to:

  *   software vulnerabilities and the development of countermeasures for such vulnerabilities,
  *   security aspects of middleware, virtualization, operating systems, distributed systems, compilers, cyber-physical systems, cloud systems, web and mobile applications, wireless systems or embedded systems,
  *   foundational methods in security, including language-based security, information flow control, modeling and enforcement of security policies, verification of security properties in software or hardware,
  *   quantitative, statistical and empirical methods for security research,
  *   trusted computing technology, and the application of this technology in the construction of secure systems.

DistriNet is an international research group with extensive expertise in secure and distributed software. Embedded in the Department of Computer Science of KU Leuven, DistriNet brings together a substantial critical mass of about 90 researchers, including 12 full-time professors, 10 permanent research staff members, 11 postdoctoral researchers, and about 60 PhD researchers. The conducted research is systems-centric, always application-driven and often performed in close collaboration with industry (e.g. in industrial automation, healthcare, transport & logistics). The know-how of DistriNet formed the basis of multiple spin-off companies. [https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/]

Duties

Research
It is part of the assignment of the appointed candidate to develop, within the domain of Secure Systems an international, competitive research programme, to pursue excellent scientific results at an international level and to support and promote national and international research partnerships. The candidate must meet a strong research profile or have the potential to do so. In addition, the candidate is expected to have a multidisciplinary attitude and a willingness to cooperate intensively with other researchers and research units at KU Leuven.

The candidate:

  *   Is an excellent, internationally oriented researcher and develops a research programme at the forefront in the field of Secure Systems.
  *   Strengthens existing research lines and brings complementary and/or additionally new expertise by working closely with the members of the research unit.
  *   Publishes at the highest scientific level in leading international journals and conferences.
  *   Develops an own research group.
  *   Supervises master students, PhD students and postdocs at a high international level.
  *   Aims to acquire competitive research funding from national and/or international agencies and submits effective research project proposals for this purpose.
  *   Establishes both within KU Leuven, national and international partnerships in the context of the research programme.
  *   Strives for excellence in research and provides a contribution to the international research reputation of the DistriNet Research Group, Department of Computer Science and KU Leuven.
  *   Has a pronounced interest in fundamental research, but also pays attention to the valorization and applications of the research.

Education
Although the position regards a research professorship at the start of employment, the candidate is expected to gradually contribute to state of the art teaching.

The candidate also contributes to the pedagogic project of the faculty/university. He/she develops teaching in accordance with KU Leuven’s vision on activating and research‐based education and makes use of the possibilities for the educational professionalization offered by the faculty and the university.

The assignment of the candidate to be appointed also includes a teaching assignment in computer science and secure systems

Service
Scientific, societal  and internal services (administrative and/or institutional) are also part of the assignment.

Requirements

  *   You have a PhD in Computer Science, or an equivalent degree. If you have recently obtained your PhD, it is important that you support your research and growth potential with academic references.
  *   You have a strong research profile in the field and an indisputable research integrity.
  *   The quality of your research is proven by publications in leading international journals and conferences.
  *   International research experience is considered as an important advantage.
  *   You have demonstrable qualities related to academic education. Teaching experience is a plus.
  *   You possess organizational skills and have a cooperative attitude. You also have leadership skills within a university context.
  *   Your spoken and written English is excellent. The official administrative language used at KU Leuven is Dutch. If you do not speak Dutch (or do not speak it well) at the start of employment, KU Leuven will provide language training to enable you to take part in administrative meetings. Before teaching courses in Dutch or English, you will be given the opportunity to learn Dutch resp. English to the required standard.

Offer

  *   We offer full-time employment in an intellectually challenging environment. KU Leuven is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university that carries out both fundamental and applied scientific research. Our university is highly inter- and multidisciplinary focused and strives for international excellence. In this regard, we actively collaborate with research partners in Belgium and abroad. We provide our students with an academic education that is based on high-quality scientific research.
  *   Depending on your qualifications and academic experience, you will be appointed to or tenured in one of the grades of the senior academic staff: assistant professor, associate professor, professor or full professor. In principle, junior researches are appointed as assistant professor on the tenure track for a period of 5 years; after this period and a positive evaluation, they are permanently appointed as an associate professor.
  *   You will work in Leuven, a historic and dynamic and vibrant city located in the heart of Belgium, within twenty minutes from Brussels, the capital of the European Union, and less than two hours from Paris, London and Amsterdam.
  *   KU Leuven is well set to welcome foreign professors and their family and provides practical support with regard to immigration and administration, housing, childcare, learning Dutch, partner career coaching, …
  *   In order to facilitate scientific onboarding and accelerate research in the first phase a starting grant of 100.000 euro is offered to new professors without substantial other funding and appointed for at least 50%.

Interested?
More information on the content of the job can be obtained from the academic contact person
Prof. dr. Danny Hughes (danny.hughes at kuleuven.be, tel. +32 16 32 82 87). More information can be found on https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/55627646

More information on the guidelines, regulations and application file is available from Ms. Kristin Vermeylen (kristin.vermeylen at kuleuven.be , tel. +32 16 32 09 07) or Ms. Christelle Maeyaert (christelle.maeyaert at kuleuven.be , tel. +32 16 31 41 94).

KU Leuven seeks to foster an environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of gender, age, cultural background, nationality or impairments. If you have any questions relating to accessibility or support, please contact us at diversiteit.HR at kuleuven.be.



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