International Association
for Cryptologic Research

We are looking for excellent applicants from all applied areas of IT-security and privacy, in particular in the area of Network Security.

The position is part of the German IT-security center CISPA - Center for IT-Security, Privacy, and Accountability.

It addresses a broad range of research problems, from fundamental research questions to the development of new technologies and prototypic systems.

The close connection of the CISPA to the department of Computer Science (CS), the Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) for Informatics, the MPI for Software Systems, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Excellence Cluster Multimodal Computing and Interaction (MMCI), and the Graduate School for CS is of crucial importance for its success.

Collaboration with partners in the cross-border region SaarLorLux is explicitly supported by the “University of the Greater Region” project (http://www.uni-gr.eu).

Requirements:

• Outstanding scientific skills (publications in the leading international IT-security conferences),
• management skills and
• excellent teaching skills & strong dedication towards teaching (teaching language for Master studies and the graduate school is English).

Participation towards establishing the CISPA and especially the acquisition of projects is expected.

Aside from requirements by public sector employment law, necessary qualifications for hiring include a tertiary education, pedagogical suitability, the ability for scientific work, generally proven by the doctoral degree, and additional scientific achievements (e.g., an excellent publication record).

In accordance with the promotion of women act, Saarland University aims to increase the proportion of women in this type of employment and actively encourages applications from women. For candidates with equal qualifications, preference will be given to peo