Open Call for MS2T Research Chairs

Open call for MS2T Research Chairs in Systems of Systems

Université de Technologie de Compiègne - France

http://www.utc.fr/labexms2t/

"The Laboratory of Excellence" (Labex) MS2T at Université de technologie de Compiègne (UTC), supported by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), invites applications from scholars, such as assistant or full professors to long-term junior or senior Research Chairs. These temporary appointments will last from 1 year to 3 years, renewable. Tenured academic positions are not granted, but may be opened to the most successful recipients.
The MS2T research Chairs aim to attract very high-level researchers to join the MS2T project striving towards excellence in the field of Systems of Sytems (SoS). We look for candidates provividing as quickly as possible an international stature to this project in the field of SoS, to the mutual benefit of both parties.
All transdisciplinary research proposals related to the field of Technological Systems of Systems are welcomed. The Research Chairs are expected to initiate or develop collaborative, interdisciplinary research with UTC faculty associated to the MS2T project.

Qualifications
The available positions are assigned through a competitive but light selection procedure. Candidates should have held the Ph.D. or equivalent professional degree, with strong record of research publications.

Junior Research Chairs
This type of Chair concerns internationally recognized researchers who typically defended their PhD thesis 5 to 8 years ago. The successful candidates will be hired on temporary appointments during the initial project lifetime (18 to 36 months). Additional financial support will be allocated for equipment and laboratory facilities (such as PostDoc, PhD grants or research staff).

Senior Research Chairs
This type of Chair concerns internationally recognized researchers who typically defended their thesis more than 8 years ago. The successful candidates will be hired on temporary appointments during the initial project lifetime (12 to 24 months). Additional financial support will be allocated for equipment and laboratory facilities (such as PostDoc, PhD grants or research staff).

Salary
The Research Chairs will be rewarded according to qualifications and experience. Recipients will be provided with a fully equipped office, secretarial and funding support. Travel grant will be allocated and accompanying measures for the settlement and stay in France are available.

Timeline
The call is open for visits starting now until the end of 2015.

Application Procedure
The applicant should send to Laurie.herlin@utc.fr

• a research proposal (approx. 5-10 pages),
• a CV with full publication list.

Inquiries
Inquiries may be sent to Isabelle Fantoni or Yves Grandvalet

About Labex MS2T
The national initiative "Laboratories of Excellence" (LabEx) aims to select internationally renowned laboratories of excellence and to provide them with the means that enable them to keep pace with their foreign counterparts and to attract top level foreign researchers. It should help them build a high-level integrated higher education, training and technology transfer policy. The Labex MS2T fosters research dedicated to the control of technological Systems of Systems (SoS), in transport and mobility, security, and e-Health. MS2T is a transdisciplinary research project, with three broad research topics :

1. Interaction and cooperation among systems

• Management of information flows in networks
• Distributed information processing
• The autonomy of interacting systems

2. Management of uncertainties

• Modeling of uncertainties
• Robustness in the face of uncertainties and integrity
• Uncertainty in digital modeling

3. Optimized design of SoS

• Multi-level and multi-physical optimization
• Scheduling and synchronization of mobile sub-systems
• Operational safety of technological SoSs
  With more than 60 faculties and 180 PhD candidates, the MS2T initiative aims at becoming a leading European institute in these research topics driven by the control of SoS.

About Compiègne, UTC and CNRS
Residence of sovereigns since the origin of the monarchy, Compiègne is now a countryside town at the doors of Paris, with a strong student population (more than 4’000 out of 40’000 inhabitants). It is also a tourist destination whose castles are surrounded by one of the largest forest of France. Compiègne is conveniently located, 70 kms away from Paris which is easily accessed by train or car. The International Roissy/Charles de Gaulle Airport is only 40 minutes away.

Université de Technologie de Compiègne is a public institution which delivers Engineering degrees, Masters, and PhD. Its main missions are education, research and technology transfer. Created in 1972 as a new model in the French higher education system, UTC is now a successfull educational institution in the French academic landscape, classified as a top-ranked engineering formation.

The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) is a government-funded research organization, under the administrative authority of France’s Ministry of Research. The CNRS operates through its own laboratories, as well as others run jointly with universities, fellow research organizations and industry. These laboratories are located throughout France, and several are even outside the country.