[Infovis] Open position for Chair in Design Informatics, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

[benjamin bach]

Dear Colleagues, 

Applications are invited from world-leading researchers for the recently established Chair in Design Informatics in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. The holder of the Chair will serve as co-director of the Centre of Design Informatics (https://www.designinformatics.org), a joint venture between the School of Informatics and the Edinburgh College of Art.

This is a full-time open-ended appointment at the rank of professor. The Chair's research profile will combine expertise in one of the subfields of informatics with a track record of teaching, research, and leadership in design. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to

• Health care informatics
• Human-computer interaction and human-data interaction
• Visualization and computer graphics
• Privacy and security, internet of things
• Human-centric AI and social informatics
• Language, speech, vision, multimodal computing, and robotics

Closing date: March 4, 2020, 5pm GMT
Web-1: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form
Web-2: https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/news-events/stories/2019/informatics-searching-for-new-chair-design-inf <https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/news-events/stories/2019/informatics-searching-for-new-chair-design-inf>

Further information below. 
Please circulate widely and let Prof. Frank Keller (keller at inf.ed.ac.uk) know if you have any questions. 

Best Regards, 
Benjamin Bach 
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) 
in Design Informatics and Visualization
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
http://benjbach.me <http://benjbach.me/>
https://visualinteractivedata.github.io <https://visualinteractivedata.github.io/>

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All applications must contain the following supporting documents:
• Teaching statement
• Research statement
• Full CV (resume) and publication list

Feedback will only be provided to interviewed candidates.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Prof Frank Keller (keller at inf.ed.ac.uk).

Visits to Edinburgh and to the School of Informatics will be arranged for short-listed candidates, in advance of the interview date.

The role is grade UE10 and attracts an annual salary on the Professorial scale.

The closing date is 4 March 2020 at 5pm GMT.

Further Information

Design informatics develops concepts, systems, and devices that allow humans to interact better with technology and data, and with each other. It combines design thinking with computational and data-driven methodologies in areas such as internet of things, security and privacy, robotics, speech and language, visualisation and graphics, computational social science, and cognitive science. Design informatics is at the core of innovation in the 21st century, creating technology that makes our lives safer, cleaner, healthier, fairer, and more productive.

The Centre for Design Informatics is a collaboration between the School of Informatics and the Edinburgh College of Art. It brings together faculty from both Schools and is located in the newly built Bayes Centre and in InSpace, which hosts lab space and public engagement facilities. Over the last five years, Design Informatics in Edinburgh has established a distinctive profile, attracted considerable funding from research councils, government, and industry, and built a substantial cohort of master's and PhD students.

We are now seeking a world-leading researcher who will take Design Informatics to the next level. They will act as co-director of the Centre of Design Informatics, provide research leadership, spearhead funding initiatives, and develop design informatics teaching. They are also expected to play a significant outreach role, through public engagement and industry contacts.

The successful candidate will have a vision for how to develop design informatics both as a field and within the Edinburgh ecosystem, which includes initiatives such as the Bayes Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and the Edinburgh City Region Deal, which focuses on data-driven innovation. As well as providing research leadership in and beyond the Centre for Design Informatics, the Chair will contribute to postgraduate teaching, undergraduate courses, curriculum development and the supervision of PhD students. The Chair will be based in the School of Informatics, but will work with designers, data scientists, technologists and researchers across the University, and with external public and private sector partners.

The Chair's research profile will combine expertise in one of the subfields of informatics with a track record of teaching, research, and leadership in design. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
• Health care informatics
• Human-computer interaction and human-data interaction
• Visualization and computer graphics
• Privacy and security, internet of things
• Human-centric AI and social informatics
• Language, speech, vision, multimodal computing, and robotics


The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is one of the largest in Europe, with more than 120 academic staff and a total of over 500 post-doctoral researchers, research students and support staff. Informatics at Edinburgh rated highest on Research Power in the most recent Research Excellence Framework. The School has strong links with industry, with dedicated business incubator space and well-established enterprise and business development programmes. The School of Informatics has recently established the Bayes Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, which provide a locus for fruitful multi-disciplinary work, including a range of companies collocated in it. The School holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance the representation of women in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. We are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions actively promoting LGBT equality.