Post date: Jan 8, 2016 11:02:54 AM
> Greetings from Cardiff. It might be interesting to know
> that the Welsh government has recently announced a call for 90
> postdoctoral fellowships applications, as part of a Marie Curie COFUND
> scheme. These fellowships are aimed at researchers who already have
> around 3 to 5 years postdoctoral experience, and who have not lived in
> the UK for more than 12 months in the last 3 years. The closing date for
> the call is on 1 March 2016 (with a second call being expected in the
> 3rd quarter of
> 2016). More information about the scheme can be found here:
>
>
> Could you perhaps forward this information to anybody you know who might
> be interested in applying?
>
> As we are looking to strengthen the KR research area in Cardiff, we
> would be particularly interested to support applications in the
> following areas:
>
> - Argumentation (Martin Caminada, Federico Cerutti, Richard Booth)
> - Belief revision, update and merging (Richard Booth)
> - Epistemic reasoning, non-monontonic reasoning, answer set programming
> (Richard Booth, Steven Schockaert)
> - Reasoning under uncertainty (Federico Cerutti, Steven Schockaert)
> - Social choice theory (Richard Booth)
> - Qualitative spatial reasoning, conceptual spaces, similarity-based
> reasoning (Steven Schockaert)
> - Natural language interfaces to automated reasoning (Federico Cerutti,
> Alun Preece)
> - Applications of KR in medicine, architecture or information retrieval
> (Irena Spasic, Steven Schockaert)
>
> The application needs to go through an internal review process, so
> interested candidates should contact us as soon as possible, and by 15
> January at the latest (for the March 2016 call).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>