Call for Applications

Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowships in Human Centered Computing
Utrecht University
The Netherlands
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting/marie-sk%C5%82odowska-curie-individual-fellowships-human-centered-computing

Expressions of interest due 30 May, 2020

The Human-Centred Computing group, Utrecht University, the Netherlands invites candidates interested in a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual European fellowship. The call has a deadline of 9 September 2020. General information about Marie Curie fellowships can be found here:

https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/individual-fellowships_e n

What we are looking for are candidates who:

• Have a PhD or at least 4 years’ full-time research experience by the call deadline (9 September 2020).
• Have not been in the Netherlands for more than 12 months in the 3 years before 9 September 2020.
• Would love to live in Utrecht during their fellowship and work with us
• Have an interest in our research areas (see below) and a background that complements these areas
• Bring something new to our group.

Marie Curie welcomes people who want to restart their research career after a break such as parental leave, and we also welcome interest from such candidates.

What we offer selected candidates is:

• An international top university (#30 Shanghai ranking) as host institution.
• A strong and friendly research group
• Excellent research infrastructure
• Mentoring, support, input, and feedback to produce an excellent jointly written fellowship proposal

If you are interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship with us as host, please

• Send an expression of interest to the member of staff closest aligned to your research interests by 30 May, 2020, with subject line ‘Marie Curie’.

• Include:

• • Your CV (PDF including publication list)
  • A paragraph explaining what makes you a good candidate
  • A paragraph explaining your research interests and the project you envisage working on during your fellowship
  • A paragraph explaining what skills you would bring to the group
  • A paragraph explaining what you would like to learn during your fellowship

Our research areas include:

• Virtual humans in Augmented & Virtual Reality and Games (Zerrin Yumak)
• Human-Robot Interaction (Maartje de Graaf)
• Mobile and Wearable Computing (Paweł W. Woźniak, Egon L. van den Broek)
• Personalized and adaptive systems (Judith Masthoff, Egon L. van den Broek)
• User Modeling and Recommender Systems (Judith Masthoff)
• Affective and empathic computing (Egon L. van den Broek, Judith Masthoff)
• Persuasive technology, e-coaching, and serious games  (Robbert Jan Beun, Judith Masthoff, Joske Houtkamp)
• Computer-Supported Collaborative Work and Crowd Computing (Ioanna Lykourentzou)
• Automated analysis of and interaction with humanities’ data (Almila Akdag)
• Cognition in User Experience (Christof van Nimwegen)

These research areas are addressed in many domains, including: health & well-being, sports, education, music, retail, and cultural heritage.

Email addresses for all staff can be found on the Utrecht University website (https://www.uu.nl/en).