Associate Professor (UHD) in Game Technology

The Faculty of Science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands consists of six departments: Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Information and Computing Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Mathematics. The Faculty is home to 3500 students and nearly 2000 staff and is internationally renowned for the quality of its research.

The cluster Game and Media Technology of the Department of Information and
Computing Sciences has a vacancy for an

Associate Professor (UHD) in Game Technology

Salary: The gross salary lies between € 4428,- and maximum € 5920,- per month.

Job description: Game technology is an important area of research and education in the department. The candidate will play an important role in leading and advancing the research on simulation and visualization of virtual characters, in the context of games and virtual world. Typical research topics can include: physical simulation of characters (skin simulation, surgery simulation, simulation of emotions and expressions, hair and cloth simulation, …), animation techniques, path planning and crowd simulation, manipulation of the environment by virtual characters, steering of virtual characters, or modelling and rendering characters and crowds. The candidate will co-supervise PhD students in this domain and will acquire national and international external funding for extending the research group. The candidate will be responsible for part of the master program Game and Media Technology (www.gametechnology.eu) and will also take part in the teaching in the track game technology (www.gametechnologie.nl) in the bachelor program Computer Science. The candidate will help manage the national GATE project on game research (www.gameresearch.nl) and a new European Network of Excellence in games.

Requirements: Candidates are required to be high potentials, which should be visible in their research and teaching record. Prerequisites are: a PhD in the field of computer science; a strong research record; a proven record in acquiring external research funding; a good international network; extensive teaching experience; experience in collaborating with industry; and excellent communicative and organizational skills.
Candidates should have a clear affinity with games which shows from their research,
teaching, or other activities.

Conditions of employment: The candidate is offered a permanent full-time position.
The details of the function will be agreed conditional upon the background and
experience. The salary is supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and an end-of-year
bonus of 8,3% per year. In addition we offer: a pension scheme, a partially paid parental leave, flexible employment conditions. Conditions are based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. The research group will provide the candidate with necessary support on all aspects of the project. More information you can find on the website:
http://www.uu.nl/EN/informationfor/jobseekers/Working-for-Utrecht-University/terms-of-employment/Pages/default.aspx

Additional Information: Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained
from: prof. dr. Mark Overmars, tel. +31 30 253 37 36, e-mail: m.h.overmars@cs.uu.nl.
As part of the selection procedure, the candidate is expected to give an outline of his/her research plans in a written report and an oral presentation.

Sending your applications: Please send your application (including a letter of
motivation, curriculum vitae and contact details of at least two references) before June 20, 2010 to email: Science.PenO@uu.nl. Please mention vacancy number 64004.