Job details
Time of job announcement2022-02-09 14:37:11
Type of position
Postdoctoral Researcher
Project title
Open position as Postdoctoral Researcher in Bayesian statistical learning and spatial regression at HU Berlin
Project description
chool of Business and Economics – Institute Statistics and Data Science Postdoctoral Research fellow (m, f, d) with expected full-time employment – E 13 TV-L HU (third-party funding, limited until 2023/01/31 but extension possible) Job description and opportunities: * The working group of Statistics and Data Science at Humboldt-Universität Berlin invites applications for a position to contribute to the research on theoretical, mathematical and statistical aspects of Bayesian learning and novel methods towards high-dimensional and spatial regression as well as clustering models. The position can be associated with Prof. Klein's Emmy Noether group funded by the German Research foundation (DFG). Opportunities for own scientific qualification (career development) are provided, see: https://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/en/academic-career/academic-career?set_language=en Requirements: * completed Master and PhD (preferably with very good marks) in Statistics, Mathematics, or related field with specialisation in Statistics, Data Science or Mathematics * a strong background in at least two of the following fields: Bayesian computational methods, spatial statistics, mixture models and inference therein, variational inference, deep learning, density regression and clustering, model selection priors, mathematical statistics. * furthermore, a thorough mathematical understanding * substantial experience in scientific programming with R, Matlab, Python, C/C++ or similar * very good communication skills and team experience, proficiency of the written and spoken English language (German is not obligatory) Please send your application (including a CV with list of publications, a motivational statement (at most one page) explaining the applicant's interest in the position as well as their relevant skills and experience, copies of degrees/university transcripts, names and email addresses of at least two professors that may provide letters of recommendation directly to the hiring committee) within 4 weeks, quoting reference number DR/030/22 to the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, School of Business and Economics, Prof. Dr. Nadja Klein, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin or preferably as a single PDF file to nadja.klein@hu-berlin.de. For further information please contact the project leader Prof. Dr. Nadja Klein (nadja.klein@hu-berlin.de). HU is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and specifically encourages qualified female scholars to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential consideration. People with an immigration background are specifically encouraged to apply. Since we will not return your documents, please submit copies in the application only.