Postdoctoral Fellowships in Database Research at the University of
Edinburgh

In connection with a recently awarded EPSRC platform grant, the
database group has two vacancies for postdoctoral research fellows.
The grant covers a wide area of database systems including, but not
only, the following topics:

    Architecture-conscious database systems
    Curated databases
    Expressive power and complexity of query languages
    Data Quality
    Data provenance and annotation
    Data archiving
    Data exchange
    Data security
    Data integration
    Peer to peer computation
    Master Data Management
    Query evaluation and optimisation
    Schema mappings
    Storage architectures and Flash-based storage
    Web services and workflows
    Web page clustering


While the positions are primarily open to database researchers with
promising academic records, all applicants with a strong background in
computer science will be considered. Skills in both theory and system
building are desirable.

Details of these positions are available at

  http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3011134

Through which applications should be made (please be sure to attach
full CV and statement of research interests.)

Potential applicants may also want to want to contact informally one
of the investigators on this project:  Peter Buneman (opb), Wenfei Fan
(wenfei), Leonid Libkin (libkin) or Stratis Viglas (sviglas) all at
inf.ed.ac.uk 

In the past five years the School of Informatics at Edinburgh has
committed to increasing its strength in databases, and the database
group has now become one of the leading European research groups.
Aided by funding from the Royal Society, the UK Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council, IBM and the EC, the group has good
resources to support a broad research base in databases. The group
currently has nineteen primary members and several visitors.

The database group is part of the Laboratory for the Foundations of
Computer Science (LFCS), the best-known of the Institutes within the
School of Informatics. LFCS has traditional strengths in the
principles and theory of programming languages and has been the
incubator of some of the most profound connections between logic and
computer science. The School of Informatics itself is currently the
top-ranked computer science department in the UK.

As the capital of Scotland and a remarkably attractive city, Edinburgh
is a magnet for many international scientific activities. It is also
within easy reach of Scotland's spectacular countryside, and it is
rated as one of the most "livable" cities in the UK. Edinburgh is a
natural hub for teaching and research within the whole of
Scotland. Moreover, within Edinburgh there are numerous users of
advanced database technology who are forming natural partnerships with
database research.