Academic

Ericsson is the largest supplier of mobile systems in the world and supports all major standards for wireless communication. We have been a strong driver in major standardisation forums for many years and have always been a driving force in research and development, leading the way in development in our industry.

We are delighted to announce that Ericsson Ireland has been awarded EU FP6 funding under the Marie Curie Actions, Transfer of Knowledge scheme for 2005-2009.

By hosting a number of Research Fellowships and Visiting Senior Researchers, we will bring world-class researchers to Athlone, Ireland. We will create the next generation of network management systems based on Distributed computing (P2P, Grid) and Knowledge engineering (data mining, machine learning, ontologies).

The main functions of these Research Fellowships will be to:

• Evaluate and develop components and techniques for self configuring systems based on Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing distributed systems theory and practices in order to create a distributed secure real-time network management architecture.
• Based on knowledge engineering principles, determine a suitable knowledge representation schema; evaluate the application of data mining to real-time telecommunication management issues and creation of ontologies for use in a real-time distributed management system.

Eligible applicants should have at least 10 years' post-doctoral research experience in either an academic and/or an industrial setting with extensive peer reviewed publications in relevant learned journals and conferences. They should also have experience of research project management in terms of leading teams, generating external funding and supervision of PhDs.

Research Fellows (24 month contracts over 2 years)

Eligible applicants should have at least four years' research experience since gaining a university diploma giving them access to doctoral studies, or should have a PhD.

Ericsson is an equal opportunity employer. Fellowships are available regardless of nationality. Eligible candidates must have spent 4 of the last 5 years outside of Ireland.

For more information please visit our recruitment web site at www.ericsson.com/jobs

Please send your CV and a research statement to hr.Ireland@ericsson.com
Closing date: 28 February 2005.

http://www.ericsson.com/uk/marie_curie/vacancies.shtml