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2 PhD positions in Digital Archaeology at Leiden University

The Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University is a partner in the new university-wide Data Science research programme that advocates the use of data science in various fields of research.
As part of this programme, we are hiring two PhD students in Digital Archaeology for the research projects ‘Automating archaeological object detection in remotely sensed data’ (vacancy no 16-453) and ‘Big data in archaeology: harnessing the hidden knowledge in the “graveyard” of Malta reports’ (vacancy no 16-454). We welcome applications by candidates from archaeology with advanced knowledge in digital image analysis and text mining, respectively.
Both positions are available from 1 April 2017 for a period of four years. The deadline for applications is 15 January 2017. Please feel free to forward this announcement to potential candidates.

13 positions for PhD students in the field of digital history and hermeneutics at University of Luxembourg

The Historical Institute / Center for Contemporary and Digital History University of Luxembourg has obtained a large grant from the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg in the framework of the so-called PRIDE-program, enabling the creation of a Doctoral Training Unit (DTU) and opens up to
13 positions for PhD students (Doctoral candidates) in the field of digital history and hermeneutics (m/f)
Description

  •  Ref: R-STR-3067-00-B
  • Starting date: 15th January 2017
  • Duration: 14-months initial contract, extendable up to 3 years, further extendable by 1 year if required, 40 hours/week
  • Doctoral student status at Luxembourg University
  • Deadline for applications: 1st September 2016

Your Role

  • This DTU aims at creating an experimental trading zone for the reflection on the epistemological and methodological challenges of doing digital history / humanities research in an interdisciplinary setting. All PhD students will have to conduct their research within the conceptual framework of the DTU. Participation in the collectively organized skills trainings on digital literacy as well as active participation in the planning and organization of thematic workshops of the DTU will be required. For a detailed description of the DTU and the thematic axes see: http://www.dhlab.lu/digital-literacy/digital-history-hermeneutics-dtu/
  • Presentation of research findings at workshops and conferences
  • Publication of papers / scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals
  • Possibility of participating in teaching activities (seminars)

Your Profile

  • Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in a Humanities discipline (History, Philosophy, Sociology, Linguistics, Archaeology) or related disciplines such as Geography; or in Computer Sciences, Data and Information Science, Human-Computer-Interaction and Psychology. It is possible to apply if the respective degree is to be obtained soon (details to be given in the application
  • Good command of written and spoken English
  • Dedication to actively participate in the interdisciplinary framework of the DTU
  • Willingness to integrate in the “experimental space” of the DTU

We offer

  •  The University of Luxembourg offers a dynamic environment with a large number of ongoing scientific activities (English as working language; additionally, French and German are accepted as literary languages for the writing of the PhD thesis) and a cutting edge digital research infrastructure
  • Financial support (travel allowances) for participating in scientific activities (workshops, conferences, summer schools, etc.
  • Attractive salary and employment contract including social insurance contribution
  • Enrolment in the doctoral school of the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) or of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) with an interesting offer of various disciplinary or interdisciplinary courses and transferable skills trainings

Further Information

PhD Advisors and Research Areas
• Ass.-Prof. Andrea Binsfeld: ancient history, slave history, roman archaeology
• Prof. Pascal Bouvry; computer science, heuristics of search, search optimization, parallel computing
• Ass.-Prof. Geoffrey Caruso: geovisualisation, spatial data mining, GIS, urban analysis
• Prof. Andreas Fickers: digital history, historical epistemology, history of media and technology
• Prof. Peter Gilles: linguistics, corpus linguistics, digital humanities, Luxembourg studies
• Prof. Frank Hofmann: philosophy, epistemology, theories of cognition, knowledge and rationality
• Dr. Vincent Koenig: human-computer interaction, cognitive ergonomics
• Ass.-Prof. Benoît Majerus: European history, war studies, medical history, memory studies
• Prof. Michel Margue: historiography, memory studies, medieval history, historical hermeneutics
• Ass.-Prof. Christoph Schommer: data mining, data science, information retrieval, text mining
• Ass.-Prof. Denis Scuto: contemporary history of Luxembourg, migration history, historical didactics
• Prof. Leon van der Torre: arcificial intelligence, knowledge representation, deontic/legal reasoning, argumentation, NLP
• Dr. Martin Uhrmacher: urban history, regional history, historical cartography, medical history

Further Information

Application Documents

Letter of motivation containing compulsorily

  • an explanation of the motives for participating in the DTU and of expected learning outcomes and career perspectives
  • a sketch of a research project (2 pages max) that fits into at least one of the thematic axes developed in the DTU proposal
  • an argued preference for a main supervisor out of the list of PhD advisors listed above

Full CV

Transcript of academic records and copies of diplomas

Names of at least two references who are willing to write a letter of recommendation on the candidate’s behalf (they may be contacted by us)

Remarks

  • 11 of the 13 positions are funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg in the PRIDE scheme. 2 PhD positions are funded by the University.
  • General questions concerning the structure, intellectual agenda and organization of the DTU should be addressed to the DTU coordinator Prof. Andreas Fickers: andreas.fickers[at]uni.lu
  • Administrative questions shall be addressed to pride-gsm[at]uni.lu
  • Scientific questions should be addressed directly to the corresponding potential PhD advisor

All applications must be submitted online. Deadline: 1st of September 2016.

The University of Luxembourg is an equal opportunity employer and applications by women are especially encouraged.

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2 postdoctoral full time positions in Geometric Modeling, Computing/ Mathematics and in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

The “Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes” and the “Histoire et archéologie de la Méditerranée et de l’Afrique du Nord” in France would  like  to  recruit  two  Postdoctoral  Researchers  (one  in  Geometric Modeling,  Computing  & Mathematics and one in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History) to join research on the development of innovative methodologies for the semantic interpretation of digitized forms of heritage artefacts, their classification and analysis. Obviously, even if clearly distinct in their academic profile and planned work, these two post-doctoral  fellows will interact throughout the duration of the project. By combining, evaluating and comparing the languages of the archaeologist, the mathematician, the chemist and the architect, the aim is the definition of a new common language to these four disciplines, with an epistemological perspective and heritage shared – the 3D virtual restitution of major world heritage monuments, including their surface treatment (plating, colors). To this end, the project is focused on the study of two ancient monuments selected for their historical importance, the quality of available remains to study and the scientific and economic issues they raise: the Tholos in Delphi (Greece); the Attis Temple in Zama Regia (Tunisia).

Postdoctoral position 1 (f/m) in Geometric Modeling, Computing & Mathematics

Institute: Laboratoire LSIS (Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes,  UMR 7296 – CNRS/ AMU / http://www.lsis.org ), Marseille, France.

Supervisor: Pr. Marc Daniel ( marc.daniel[at]univ-amu.fr )

In  collaboration  with  the  Laboratoire  MAP  (Livio de  Luca,  Dr.  CNRS,  Modèles  et  simulations  pour l’Architecture et le Patrimoine, UMR 3495 – CNRS/MCC / http://www.map.archi.fr ), Marseille, France.

Partner: Centre Camille Jullian (Histoire et archéologie de la Méditerranée et de l’Afrique du Nord, de la protohistoire à la fin de l’Antiquité, UMR 7299 – AMU/CNRS/MCC), Aix-en-Provence, France.

The LSIS laboratory currently oers a Postdoctoral position (f/m) for a researcher specialized in Geometric Modeling, Computing & Mathematics. This postdoctoral  position is located in LSIS, a National Scientific Research Center located in Marseille within the G-Mod team ( http://www.lsis.org/gmod ).

Your profile: Under the responsibility of LSIS and in collaboration with the MAP, you will address the problem of digitizing sculpture, the search for relevant shape analysis descriptors and the automatic extraction of relevant semantic features from the calculation of these descriptors. You will have good skills in mathematics and computing and more specifically in geometric modeling. Being open in multi-disciplinarily work dealing with cultural heritage and documentation will be highly appreciated.

Please submit your enquiries and application to Pr. Marc Daniel ( marc.daniel[at]univ-amu.fr ), with copy to Pr. Philippe Jockey ( philippe.jockey[at]univ-amu.fr ) and Dr. Livio de Luca ( livio.deluca[at]map.cnrs.fr ).

Postdoctoral position 2 (f/m) in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Institute: Centre Camille Jullian (Histoire et archéologie de la Méditerranée et de l’Afrique du Nord, de la protohistoire à la fin de l’Antiquité, CCJ, UMR 7299, AMU/CNRS/MCC), Aix-en-Provence, France / http:// ccj.cnrs.fr ).

Supervisor: Pr. Philippe Jockey, philippe.jockey[at]univ-amu.fr.

In collaboration with the Laboratoire MAP (Livio de Luca, Dr. CNRS, Modèles et simulations pour l’Architecture et le Patrimoine, UMR 3495 – CNRS/MCC 3495), Marseille, France.

Partner: Laboratoire LSIS (Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes, UMR 7296 – CNRS/ AMU), Marseille, France.

The Centre Camille Jullian currently oers a Postdoctoral position (f/m) for a researcher specialized in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History (CAAH), coupled  with 3D Digital heritage competence.  This postdoctoral  position is located in the Centre Camille Jullian, a National Scientific Research Center located in Aix-en-Provence and dedicated to the study of Mediterranean and North Africa Antiquity.

Your profile: The ideal postdoc candidate, specialized in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History (CAAH) and showing a particular interest in Ancient Greek and Roman polychromy, especially on sculpture and architecture, should  have also a high sensitivity  to  digital  technologies  and  possibly  skills in these latter  areas. Basic knowledge of them is advantageous. He / her will contribute both to the elaboration of a common scientific language between the different partners and to the 3D digital restitution of the monuments selected, including  their original polychromy.

Offer for both 2 postdoctoral full time positions

Submission deadline: November 15th 2014

Starting date: The project Eloquenzior has been funded and it is possible to recruit quickly the postdoctoral assuming the overhead due to the administration procedures.

Location:

            Postdoc 1: Marseille, Luminy, France.

Postdoc 2: Aix-en-Provence, France.

Duration: each contract  will be signed for one year, but with the possibility to extend it another year in continuity.

Salary: the net salary is monthly 1960 € for a postdoctoral having a professional experience less than 3 years. It might be higher otherwise and the second year in case of a longer contract. The salary will be also higher the second year in case of an extended contract.

Language: Good communication skills in English are a requirement. Candidates from outside France are highly encouraged to apply.

Applications

•   a detailed CV with a list of publications;

•   a certified copy of the PhD diploma. A certified translation of the PhD diploma could be required depending of the country where it was obtained;

•   a motivation letter.

Names (and contacts) of referees who, upon request, can provide recommendation letters are welcome.

Eloquenzior in brief



The Project Eloquenzior, supported and funded by the University of Aix-Marseille Foundation AMIDEX aims at  promoting  an  interdisciplinary thinking,  insofar  extracting  and  analyzing  the  information  contained  in digitized forms can let emerge new analysis mechanisms of heritage artefacts from the exploration of new methods  of  measuring  geometric  properties,  and  then  translating  these  properties  into  morphological « signatures ». Furthermore, detailed analysis of the forms can afford to go up to the analysis of how they have been produced, and thus classify them according to the different schools, which have made them. It could also help  to  enable  the  recognition  of  many  unidentified  fragments,  which  could  be  matched  through  their morphological and technological signatures. Moreover, the physico-chemical markers highlighted during the conducted analysis on the material studied, both in Delphi and Zama, Tunisia, will be added.

Indeed, in order to constrain, at least initially, the boundaries of this study, observations and descriptions whose interpretation  can benefit from  a significant  accumulation  of theories (controlled vocabulary), the team will conduct experiments on two historical forefront objects, rich in information, with a strong symbolic heritage and particularly appropriate for virtual 3D reconstructions, outstanding for scientists as to the general public.

The Tholos in Delphi (Greece)

Emblematic icon of the classical language of architecture, the building, rotunda Doric dated years 380-370 BC. AD, is located on the terrace of Athena Pronaia in Delphi. Its outer order, climbed from three columns in 1938, has a well-preserved elevation. Due to its state of conservation and considering the possibility of a joint study of its architectural and artistic forms, analyzing the Tholos is particularly relevant. On the patrimonial point of view, Eloquenzior will  provide  the  Greek and  international  community  a  complete  virtual  3D  restitution  of  the monument and its carved decoration, today broken into hundreds of fragments whose shape analysis shapes achieved in this project will match and merge.

The Attis temple in Zama Regia (Tunisia)

At only a few tens of km away from Tunis, discovered in the 2000s by a team led by Ahmed Ferjaoui (National Heritage Institute  of  Tunis), the ancient temple of  Attis  in Zama Regia is still unreleased but  about  to  be published by A. Ferjaoui. Dedicated to god Attis, it offers its exceptional remains of its architecture and gilded and polychrome sculptures dedicated to the god in its sanctuary. The latter – also novel – retain the vestiges with an exceptional state of preservation of their initial surface treatment and appearance (gilding, assorted colors), offering  to  measurement  and  3D  digital  recording  an  almost  unique  stratigraphy  for  the  antique  marble sculpture. 3D modeling of surface treatments sculptures Zama, which offers a wide stratigraphy of only a few microns, is a challenge in itself. It is one of the major objectives of the project “Eloquenzior”. Partnership with the Laboratory of Molecular and Structural Archaeology (UMR 8220, dir. Dr. CNRS Philippe Walter) is a very important asset for obtaining relevant results.

For further information do not hesitate to contact :

Pr. Marc Daniel ( marc.daniel[at]univ-amu.fr ), Pr. Philippe Jockey ( philippe.jockey[at]univ-amu.fr ), Dr. Livio de Luca ( livio.deluca[at]map.cnrs.fr ).

Full Time Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Positions in the fields of Geometrically enriched computer vision algorithms for 3D/4D reconstruction

Initial Training Network on Digital Heritage

Call for a full time fellowship

Applications are invited from candidates who possess the necessary qualifications in order to fill one (1) full time Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher (ESR) Fellow Position within the Department of Electrical Engineering – ESAT – PSI, Processing Speech and Images Laboratory, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) in Belgium in the fields of computer vision in Cultural Heritage. The selected Marie Curie ESR will work for 24 months within the ITN-Digital Cultural Heritage (ITN-DCH: www.itn-dch.eu ) Marie Curie ITN Programme which, is the only EU funded programme bringing together fourteen (14) leading European Institutions as full partners and nine (9) other as associated partners in a transnational network, aiming at implementing a multidisciplinary and intersectorial research and training programme between the academic and the industrial partners. In order to allow the candidate to complete a PhD thesis, the ESAT-PSI group will extend the duration of the contract up to 4 years, if the candidate shows enough progress.

Description

Cultural Heritage (CH) is an integral element of Europe and vital for the creation of a common European identity and one of the greatest assets for steering Europe’s social, economic development and job creation. However, the current research training activities in Cultural Heritage are fragmented and mostly design to be of a single-discipline, failing to cover the whole lifecycle of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) research, which is by nature a multi- disciplinary and intersectorial research agenda. ITN-DCH aims for the first time worldwide that top universities, research centers, industries and CH stakeholders, end-users and standardized bodies will collaborate to train the next generation of researchers in DCH. The project aims to analyze, design, research, develop and validate an innovative multi-disciplinary and intersectorial research training framework that covers the whole lifecycle of digital CH research for a cost–effective preservation, documentation, protection and presentation of CH. ITN-DCH targets innovations that covers all aspects of CH ranging from tangible (books, newspapers, images, drawings, manuscripts, uniforms, maps, artifacts, archaeological sites, monuments) to intangible content (e.g., music, performing arts, folklore, theatrical performances) and their inter-relationships. The project aims to boost the added value of CH assets by re-using them in real application environments (protection of CH, education, tourism industry, advertising, fashion, films, music, publishing, video games and TV) through research on (i) new personalized, interactive, mixed and augmented reality enabled e-services, (ii) new recommendations in data acquisition, (iii) new forms of representations (3D/4D) of both tangible /intangible assets and (iv) interoperable metadata forms that allow easy data exchange and archiving. One ESR will be recruited by the host organization at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium at the Department of Electrical Engineering ESAT, Lab. for the Processing Speech and Images PSI, Research Team on VISion for Industry, Communcations, and Services VISICS.

Position ESR5:

One ESR to be recruited by the host organization of the Department of Electrical Engineering – ESAT at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) in Belgium for the duration of 24 months under full employment contract. The selected candidate’s contract will be extended up to a full PhD duration (4 years) when desired and if performing well.

The fellow will perform research along the following lines:

As a result of the 3D documentation of CH objects or scenes, the resulting 3D scans tend to be incomplete, i.e. they contain holes. This happens with different types of scanning devices, be it on the basis of structured light, Lidar, or image-based structure-from-motion. There are graphics techniques to fill up such holes, but better results can probably be achieved in case one is aware of the type of object that has been scanned. The theme of this research training is to exploit visual object class recognition for shape completion. A strongly related topic is to consider a series of 3D models for similar objects (e.g. all horse statues) and to jointly combine such information in order to ensure the completeness of each individual model. The methodology/algorithms will take into account the appearance of traditional (historic) materials (such as wood, clay products, stone and mineral plasters), as well as the visible traces of ageing due to impact from the environment.

The ESR is expected to present his/her research results on project meetings, international conferences and in scientific publications and to contribute to patents applications.

Research Fields

Computer Science, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics,

Digital Libraries, Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Geodetic Engineering – Photogrammetry supporting Cultural Heritage documentation

Architecture – Programming in the field of Database Management Systems of Cultural Heritage (CH-BIM Systems)

Career Stage

http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/about-mca/actions/itn/marie-curie-actions-fellowships-people-wp-201301_en.pdf

Applicants are requested to submit the following:

1.           Detailed Curriculum Vitae with all the certified copies of their awards translated in English.

2.           Motivation Letter

3.           Official transcripts of grades from all academic institutions of higher education listed in his/her application, certified copies of degrees, or/and certifications of fulfillment of the required obligations for entering a graduate PhD programme

4.           Official certified copies of titles and documents in English

5.           Names of three referees who, upon request, can provide recommendation letters

6.           Copies of any related research papers or other significant work by the applicant

Applications must be submitted in a closed express courier envelope marked as “Application for Marie Curie ITN-DCH Research Fellow Position” – Prof. Luc Van Gool, ESAT – PSI, Processing Speech and Images Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) , B-3001 Leuven, Belgium. Otherwise it must be sent via regular registered post with a clearly visible post office stamp of a date not later than 3rd of August 2014, 24:00 that is the deadline for the submission of the applications.

Applicants are also requested to send their applications electronically to these email addresses  luc.vangool[at]esat.kuleuven.be . and marinos.ioannides[at]cut.ac.cy  before the deadline of 3rd of August 2014, 24:00, however, please note that the electronic submission alone will not be considered as a formal application unless the printed application is received as requested in the previous paragraph.

For enquiries: luc.vangool[at]esat.kuleuven.be

Start of the fellowship: 1st of September 2014

Comment/web site for additional job details

The Applicant should have:

•             Master of Science Degree from a recognized university in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Physics.

•             Excellent knowledge of the English language at a proficiency level (spoken and written) is required.

•             Capacity to program their own algorithms (C++, Matlab as most important tools).

Requirements

–             The ESR candidate, at the time of recruitment, must not have resided (or carried out his/her main activity e.g. work, studies, etc.) in Belgium (host country), for more than 12 months in the last 3 years immediately prior to the reference recruitment date!

Doctoral Scholarship “Feature Extraction from High Resolution Spatial Data Sets” in the domain of forensic sciences related to archaeology, palaeography and geography

The Junior Research Group “Forensic Computational Geometry Laboratory” (FCGL) at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) in cooperation with the
Heidelberg Graduate School for Mathematical and Computational Methods in the
Sciences (HGS MathComp) offers one doctoral scholarship to improve the
understanding of complex material, cultural and social topics by analyzing tangible
objects. This vision is aligned with institutional strategy of the Heidelberg University in the framework of the 2nd German Excellency Initiative.
As the FCGL bridges the Computational Science with the Forensic Sciences its main task
is the collaborative development of new methods to gather and examine information of the
past. This is performed on objects of different size from coins and ceramics to landscapes altered by ancient civilizations. The core tool of the FCGL is the GigaMesh software framework consisting of a modular extensible mesh processing pipeline to achieve the examination on high resolution measurement data provided by different types of 3D-scanners and exploration of contained information.

Full text and contact:

http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/ngg/People/mara/Heidelberg_IWR_FCGL_Doctoral_Scholarship.pdf

http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/ngg/People/mara/#openposition