Position Opening
Research Scientist Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg
Spatio-temporal Analysis for Migration Research
The Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS (division GIScience) at University of Salzburg, offers a researcher position (100%, payment according to collective agreement – “Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer/innen der Universitäten”) to be filledASAP. The main task is to carry out high-quality research in the area of “Humanitarian Safety“, i.e., the development of methods for analysing user-generated data from social media to support migration management.
The major research tasks for the announced position are defined as follows:
- Identifying spatio-temporal clusters in social media data as an indicator for migration movements
- Semantic analysis of social media posts using self-learning systems
- Spatio-temporal visualisation of migration clusters
- Collaboration with social scientists and legal scholars to co-develop a privacy-by-design guideline as a basis for the methodological research
Please see here for further details.
Position Opening
PostDoc Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg
Analysis of User-generated Data, Spatial Statistics, Machine Learning
The Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS (division GIScience) at University of Salzburg, offers a PostDoc position (100%, payment according to collective agreement – “Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer/innen der Universitäten”) to be filled ASAP. The main task is to carry out high-quality research in the area of “Urban Emotions“, i.e., the development of methods for extracting contextual emotion information from real-time human sensors and crowd-sourced data from social networks.
The developed methods correlate emotion measurements from wearable psycho-physiological sensors with subjective observations and different crowd-sourced data repositories (Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, etc.). The major research tasks for the announced position are defined as follows:
- Correlation of emotion information from different sources (emotion sensors, eDiary, social media) in space and time using machine learning algorithms
- Development of a generic spatio-temporal cluster statistic measure
- Carrying out real-world field studies to support urban planning
- Investigation of the potential of using Virtual Reality environments as an alternative to real-world experiments together with psychologists
Please see here for further details.
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Ass.-Prof. Dr. Bernd Resch | Assistant Professor
University of Salzburg | Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS
Schillerstrasse 30 | 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Phone: +43 (0)662 8044 7551 | Fax: +43 (0)662 8044 7560
E-mail: bernd.resch@sbg.ac.at | http://www.zgis.at
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