The Centre is a Centre of Excellence (CoE) under the scheme initiated by The Research Council of Norway to enable Norwegian research groups to carry on long-term, basic research at a high international standard. The Centre has around 35 scientists including professors, postdocs, PhD. candidates and visiting professors/scholars.

The Centre deals with Quality of Service (QoS) issues in heterogeneous, multilayered networks where packet switching technology is employed. The Centre works within the following areas: new network structures, wireless networks included, multimedia signal processing, dependability, traffic and security as applied to multiparty communication between stationary and mobile users.

Further information is obtainable from the Director of the Centre, Professor Svein Johan Knapskog, phone: +47 735 94328, email: knapskog@q2s.ntnu.no

We are looking well qualified applicants, and offer excellent terms and conditions.

Wages are negotiated individually. Postdoc positions are placed in salary code 1352, entry salary level 54 - 77 on the Norwegian State Salary Scale. This amounts to an annual gross salary of NOK 389 400 - 604 900. A postdoc will generally be liable to pay personal income tax in Norway. There is also a compulsory 2 % deduction for the State Pension Fund.

Compensation for visiting professors/scholars is negotiated individually and may include monthly support to cover the additional living expenses, as well as travel expenses to and from Norway.

As NTNU would like to increase the percentage of females in academic positions, women are encouraged to apply.

Applications should be sent to: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, Centre of Excellence, O.S. Bragstads plass 2E, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway. The application deadline is 15 January 2007. The file number for the positions, Q2S-14, should be explicitly stated on the application.

Application information for postdocs
The application should include:

• relevant research project area(s) at the Centre and a brief presentation of which problems you would like to pursue
• the preferred starting date and duration of your stay
• short CV/biography
• publication list
• other relevant academic work- published or unpublished
• copies of relevant work not available electronically
• certified copies of certificates and testimonials

Please send the application to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, Centre of Excellence, O.S. Bragstads plass 2E, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.

Make sure to mark the application with the given file number.

General terms for postdocs
The position is remunerated according to wage levels 54 to 77 on the Norwegian State salary scale, with gross salary from NOK 389 400,- a year.

A TOEFL test may be required.

The Centre will also offer course projects to master students and some time for guidance and supervision should be anticipated. The fellow is expected to publish in journals and at conferences during his/her stay. Registration costs and travel expenses (up to an agreed limit) to attend conferences will be covered, if submitted papers are accepted for presentation.

Source of this announcement can be found here.