[Job-offers-cs] 1 PhD- and 1 short-time PostDoc-Position in Engineering a Graph Algorithms Library, Uni Rostock

[Pekka Orponen]

We announce an opening for a PhD- or PostDoc-position in Engineering a 
new Graph Algorithms Library for full 3 years; an additional short-time 
PostDoc-Position is available for at least 6 months. The positions begin 
as soon as possible and come with social security and the competitive 
salary TV-L E13 100% according to the German public sector.


The PhD-position will be hosted at the Institute for Computer Science at 
the University of Rostock and be supervised by Jens M. Schmidt. We want 
to design and implement a new graph library specialized on very basic 
data structures and algorithms with a focus on speed and highly 
optimized and scalable platform-independent code. This shall be done 
from an algorithm engineering perspective, be supported by continuous 
testing and profiling of the written code, and adaptive to the 
particular algorithm that is called. Hence, candidates should have an 
excellent background in algorithm engineering, C++-programming (ideally 
stackoverflow is your regular friend) and first experiences with 
template metaprogramming. The position comes with a teaching load of 4 
SWS, which is generally conducted in German, so that a basic knowledge 
of the German language is required. Solid English mathematical writing 
skills are desirable.

Applicants should submit their application until January 11th 2026 on 
the official application portal [1] containing
- a curriculum vitae
- a list of publications (if there are any)
- a summary of the (possibly preliminary) thesis, max. 1 page
- a list of courses and grades, and
- names and emails of one or two references (including thesis advisor)

Informal inquiries about the position can be made by writing to 
jens.schmidt (ät) uni-rostock.de.

[1] 
https://jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/b44e709b473a74d67ce15b177e2cf4b0c4943b3f0?ref=homepage