[Job-offers-cs] Postdoc opportunity

[Pekka Orponen]

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Subject: [DMANET] postdoc opportunity
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:51:10 -0300
From: Eduardo Candido Xavier <ecx at unicamp.br>
To: dmanet at zpr.uni-koeln.de

*Overview*

We are seeking candidates for a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship position 
to work at the Institute of Computing (www.ic.unicamp.br/en), University 
of Campinas, Unicamp located in Campinas, SP, Brazil to work under the 
supervision of Prof. Eduardo C. Xavier.

This fellowship is part of a Project, entitled "Algorithms for Packing 
Problems" funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp) in a 
thematic project entitled "Investigation of hard problems from the 
algorithmic and structural standpoints":

*Goals*

Development of parallel exact algorithms and parallel heuristics to 
solve large instances of packing problems.

*Specifications*

The candidate must have a PhD in Computer Science, Operations Research, 
Applied Mathematics or in a related field. The candidate must have 
finished the PhD less than seven years before the beginning of the PD 
fellowship. The candidate should demonstrate solid background in 
combinatorial optimization, heuristics, meta-heuristics. Knowledgement 
in parallel programming and parallel algorithms is highly desirable.

The candidate is expected to interact with other members of the project 
including, masters and PhD students, and professors.

*Fellowship*

The post-doctoral fellowship includes a monthly stipend of R$ 7.373,10 
(about USD 1,900 and EU$ 1,700), access to the health-care system of 
Unicamp, and research contingency funds (15% of the annual value of the 
fellowship, each year). For more details, check out Fapesp’s webpage 
http://www.fapesp.br/en/5427.

*How to Apply*

The candidate must send by email until December 15, 2019 the following 
documents:
Curriculum vitae with a list of publications, and previous experience.
A recommendation letter from a previous supervisor.

All documents must be sent to Eduardo C. Xavier at eduardo at ic.unicamp.br

*About Campinas*

Campinas, the most surprising city of Brazil https://youtu.be/nool_9y02vE
University of Campinas (Unicamp)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Campinas

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Eduardo C. Xavier
Institute of Computing, Unicamp
www.ic.unicamp.br/~eduardo