Professor permanent positions in VR/AR at University Paris-Saclay (URGENT)

There are two Professor positions (full position) in Computer Science, openned to contest this spring at my university in Paris area (University Paris-Saclay), in France :

• one for teaching at IUT d'Orsay, and whose research profile is: Interaction with Human or Written and Signed Language Information. See job description attached (English version in the second part of the file): pr-iut-orsay-2021.pdf

• one for teaching at the UFR of Science and whose research profile is: Learning and Optimization or Interaction with Humans. See job description attached (English version in the second part of the file): pr-ufr-2021.pdf

The research spectrum "Interaction with Humans" includes especially fundamental and applied research in Virtual and/or Augmented Reality (V&AR).

Of course, only one of these two positions will be assigned at the end for the V&AR research field, thus we recommend interested candidates to apply on both positions.

For the research activity in V&AR, the selected Professor will be able to join my research team (called VENISE - http://www.limsi.fr/venise/), composed of 5 permanent researchers (1 senior researcher, 2 assistant professors, 2 research engineers), 5 PhD students and around 5 to 8 Master interns per year.

One interesting challenge is that this Professor could take leadership of the VENISE team in a short term (about one or two years maximum, even before if he/she wants) with the goal to increase its scientific excellence and its international audience.

French spoken is not mandatory at the application stage. Candidates just have to promise that they will practice sufficiently our language for being able Computer Science teaching in French in a couple of years.

Please spread wildly in your teams and professional network this call.

If you know some scientists could be interested and motivated to apply on these Professor positions, please contact me asap by email (patrick.bourdot@universite-paris-saclay.fr), because the deadline to apply is very soon: March 30, 2021, 4pm CEST (be careful, CET to CEST change will be between 27 to 28 March 2021 in France).

After the electronic application based on different forms to fill and documents to provide on a dedicated website (called Galaxie: https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/emplois_publies.html), this academic contest is followed by auditions of the candidates before summer, for a start of teaching and research beginning of September 2021 (but some arrangements are possible too).

Again, feel you free to contact me for more details on the procedure and these professor positions.

Kind regards,

Patrick Bourdot