PhD student & Postdoc positions in "Foundations of XML", Dortmund/Paris (Germany/France)

FoX, "Foundations of XML - Safe Processing of Dynamic Data over the Internet" is a research project funded by the EU involving seven universities in Amsterdam (Maarten Marx), Dortmund (Thomas Schwentick), Edinburgh (Leonid Libkin), Hasselt (Frank Neven), Oxford (Georg Gottlob), Paris (Luc Segoufin), and Warsaw (Mikolaj Bojanczyk).

The FoX program is scheduled to start on May 2009 and last until May 2012.

The FoX research program is to study the fundamental issues raised by distributed XML repositories. Topics range from modeling and reasoning issues, querying and extracting data, verifying critical properties of distributed XML repositories and learning. This reserach will include theoretical investigations as well as prototypical implementation of tools.

Candidates should have a very good background in (as many as possible of) semistructured data, XML, logic, automata, and complexity.

Within this project two post-doc positions are currently available: one in Dortmund and one in Paris. The position in Dortmund can also be given to a PhD student.

Interested applicants should contact Thomas Schwentick for Dortmund's position (thomas.schwentick at udo.edu) or Luc Segoufin for Paris' position (luc.segoufin at inria.fr).