Postdoctoral Fellow in Resilient Robotic Autonomy job with NORWEGIAN University OF SCIENCE & Know-how – NTNU
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About the position
The place is with theAutonomous Robots Labof NTNU and focuses on essential and applied research in the area of resilient robotic perception and spatial intelligence in fully or partly GPS/GNSS-denied and probably visually-degraded environments. Matters of precedence contain – but are not minimal to – investigate in a) Simultaneous Localization And Mapping in cluttered and obscurants-filled environments with demanding light disorders b) natural environment representations that can aid agile and safe and sound movement and path preparing for Micro Aerial Motor vehicles, as perfectly as c) data-driven policy discovering for safe navigation.
The Autonomous Robots Lab has primary analysis in robotic autonomy. Our monitor-document involves the the latest earn on the DARPA Subterranean Challenge (foremost Workforce CERBERUS: video1, movie2, movie3, movie4), leading-tier publications, a host of prestigious grants funded by both US and European resources, and an intercontinental community of exploration collaborators.
The postdoctoral fellowship placement is a temporary place in which the most important aim is to qualify for function in senior educational positions.
Your speedy chief is Professor Kostas Alexis.
Responsibilities of the place
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- Research in the area of the placement – defining main investigation course for the subject and offering solutions onboard robotic units
- Collaboration with PhD learners and other scientists in typical initiatives
- Publish pertinent papers in leading-tier journals and conferences in the domain
- Guidance in major global investigate initiatives involving multiple partners
- Co-supervision of master theses
- Feasible involvement in analysis grant preparation






Required selection criteria
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- You need to have completed a Norwegian doctoral degree or corresponding foreign doctoral diploma recognized as equal to a Norwegian PhD in Cybernetics, Laptop or computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or comparable. If you can document that the PhD thesis has been submitted, your software can be assessed even if you have not however defended your dissertation. Documentation of the received doctoral degree will have to be offered ahead of you can take up the position.
- Observe record of published works in the domain of the situation such as at the very least a person journal publication


The appointment is to be designed in accordance with Regulations on terms of work for positions such as postdoctoral fellow, Ph.D Prospect, study assistant and specialist applicant.
Chosen assortment conditions
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- Potent observe file of publications in top conferences and journals in robotics, computer system eyesight, device understanding, or condition estimation
- Substantial knowledge in C++ and Python
- Comprehensive expertise with the Robotic Working Program
- Working experience in code open-sourcing
- Very good published and oral English abilities





Personalized qualities
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- Ability to function independently
- Potential to work as portion of a staff
- In depth and final results-oriented



Emphasis will be positioned on personal and interpersonal features.
We offer
Wage and problems
As a Postdoctoral Fellow (code 1352) you are usually paid out from gross NOK 563 500 for each annum ahead of tax, depending on skills and seniority. From the salary, 2% is deducted as a contribution to the Norwegian General public Provider Pension Fund.
The interval of work is 2 several years.
The engagement is to be made in accordance with the laws in power concerning Condition Staff and Civil Servants, and the acts relating to Control of the Export of Strategic Goods, Solutions and Technological know-how. Candidates who by assessment of the application and attachment are seen to conflict with the criteria in the latter law will be prohibited from recruitment to NTNU.
Immediately after the appointment you need to assume that there may be alterations in the space of get the job done.
The place is issue to external funding as a result of a European challenge expected to begin in Fall 2022.
It is a prerequisite you can be existing at and accessible to the institution on a day-to-day foundation.
About the application
The application and supporting documentation to be used as the foundation for the assessment have to be in English.
Publications and other scientific get the job done should comply with the software. Please observe that your application will be regarded as primarily based only on information and facts submitted by the software deadline. You will have to consequently ensure that your application clearly demonstrates how your competencies and practical experience fulfil the requirements specified previously mentioned.
If, for any motive, you have taken a vocation crack or have experienced an atypical profession and desire to disclose this in your software, the collection committee will choose this into account, recognizing that the quantity of your investigation might be lessened as a final result.
The software must include
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- CV and certificates
- Transcripts and diplomas for bachelor’s-, master’s- and PhD degrees. If you have not nevertheless done your Ph.D, you have to offer affirmation on your estimated date for the doctoral dissertation, or that your PhD thesis has been submitted
- A copy of the doctoral thesis. If you are close to publishing, or have not long ago submitted your thesis, you can attach a draft of the thesis. Documentation of a completed doctoral diploma will have to be offered before getting up the posture.
- Educational is effective – printed or unpublished – that you would like to be thought of in the assessment
- Analysis system
- Name and contact information of 3 referees






If all, or areas, of your schooling has been taken overseas, we also request you to connect documentation of the scope and high quality of your total schooling. Description of the documentation essential can be found here. If you previously have a statement from NOKUT, please attach this as well.
Joint is effective will be regarded. If it is challenging to discover your contribution to joint works, you need to connect a brief description of your participation.
In the evaluation of which applicant is most effective certified, emphasis will be put on schooling, experience and private and interpersonal qualities. Motivation, ambitions, and opportunity will also count in the assessment of the candidates.
NTNU is fully commited to subsequent analysis criteria for analysis top quality according to The San Francisco Declaration on Analysis Evaluation – DORA.
Typical information
NTNU thinks that inclusion and range is a power. We want our faculty and personnel to replicate Norway’s culturally diverse inhabitants and we constantly request to hire the greatest minds. This allows NTNU to boost efficiency and innovation, enhance choice generating processes, raise staff gratification, contend academically with world wide top rated-rating institutions and have out our social obligations within schooling and research. NTNU emphasizes accessibility and encourages certified candidates to apply irrespective of gender identification, capability standing, periods of unemployment or ethnic and cultural history.
NTNU is doing work actively to enhance the number of gals used in scientific positions and has a variety of means to encourage equality. (tas bort hvis ikke aktuelt)
The town of Trondheim is a modern European metropolis with a abundant cultural scene. Trondheim is the innovation cash of Norway with a population of 200,000. The Norwegian welfare condition, which includes health care, universities, kindergartens and total equality, is possibly the very best of its type in the entire world. Experienced subsidized working day-care for children is easily available. Additionally, Trondheim offers terrific chances for schooling (including intercontinental educational institutions) and options to take pleasure in nature, tradition and relatives lifestyle and has small crime charges and cleanse air high-quality.
As an employee at NTNU, you must at all times adhere to the improvements that the progress in the subject involves and the organizational variations that are adopted.
A community record of candidates with name, age, job title and municipality of home is well prepared soon after the software deadline. If you want to reserve yourself from entry on the general public applicant record, this need to be justified. Evaluation will be made in accordance with present-day laws. You will be notified if the reservation is not acknowledged.
If you have any inquiries about the position, be sure to get hold of Konstantinos Alexis [email protected].
If you think this looks exciting and in line with your qualifications, please post your application electronically by means of jobbnorge.no with your CV, diplomas and certificates attached. Programs submitted somewhere else will not be deemed. Upon request, you need to be able to get hold of licensed copies of your documentation.
Application deadline: 29.07.22
NTNU – knowledge for a much better planet
The Norwegian University of Science and Engineering (NTNU) results in know-how for a improved world and solutions that can modify everyday lifestyle.
Office of Engineering Cybernetics (ITK)
Engineering cybernetics is the analyze of automated regulate and checking of dynamic devices. We produce the systems of tomorrow by means of shut cooperation with business and academia, both of those in Norway and internationally. The Department contributes to the digitalization, automation and robotization of society. The Section of Engineering Cybernetics is a person of 7 departments in the College of Details Technologies and Electrical Engineering.
Deadline 29th July 2022

Employer NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Engineering

Municipality Trondheim

Scope Fulltime

Period Short term

Position of support Campus Gløshaugen
