Scientific Assistant

vor 2 Wochen

Lausanne, Waadt, Schweiz EPFL Vollzeit

EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, is one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and ranks among the top 20 universities worldwide.

The EPFL employs more than 6,500 people supporting the three main missions of the institution:
education, research and innovation.

The EPFL campus offers an exceptional working environment at the heart of a community of more than 17,000 people, including over 12,500 students and 4,000 researchers from more than 120 different countries.


About the Time Machine Unit and Lausanne Time Machine project:


The Lausanne Time Machine is organized into parallel projects that focus on different aspects of the territory sharing common methodologies, technologies, and standards.

It also includes projects for the re-documentation of spatial databases, which are currently incompatible with other information systems.

Scientific Assistant:

Your mission:

  • The Time Machine Unit works with multiple heritage institutions and research groups on a European scale, having access to several datasets that can be shared online.
  • These datasets cover Lausanne, Switzerland, and more generally Europe.
  • Your mission is to collect datasets for web publications and interface with the Time Machine Organization, Europeana, and other heritage organizations to decide what data and how to proceed for sharing and exploitation. For this kind of work, it is essential to know the field of 'heritage engineering and to have good cultural mediator skills.

Another aspect of the mission concerns the continuity of curation of ongoing editorial publications done by the Time Machine Unit, and covering European cities.


Main duties and responsibilities include:

  • Participate in all meetings and joint activities of Time Machine unit and heritage institutions
  • Ensure continuity in communications
  • Collect and prepare geographic datasets useful for publication on the web Ensure continuity of coordination of actions to publish datasets and historical analysis also in a paper format.

Your profile:

  • Have experience and skills in dealing with heritage institutions.
  • Have a practice of managing geographic and 2D data formats.
  • Be able to follow a graphic editorial project.
  • Willingness to write good documentation.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Strong collaborative and team spirit.
  • Autonomous and accountable with a proactive approach.
  • Efficient, committed to deadlines and concerned with production readiness.
  • Knowledge of French (mandatory), English (preferred)
  • Comfortable in an international and multicultural context.

We offer:

  • Opportunity to join an experienced and highly motivated interdisciplinary team conducting innovative and relevant research at the intersection of computer science and humanities research.
  • Applied research framework: what you will develop will be deployed in production and directly used by a community of researchers.
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team at the intersection of History, computer sciences, Urban History, Digital Humanities
  • Flexible working hours and teleworking.
  • Located in Lausanne, Switzerland, EPFL has a highly international environment, stateoftheart research facilities, and is consistently ranked among the world's leading institutions in scientific research. Lausanne is a vibrant and cosmopolitan city centre in a unique natural environment with great outdoor activities (Jura, Alps, Lake Leman). Salaries and benefits are internationally competitive.

Start date:

Term of employment:

Fixed-term (CDD)

Work rate:

20-40%

Duration:

1-year contract, renewable

Remark:

Reference:

Job Nb 3297

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