Assistant professor position at ENS de Lyon / Inria in network science

The avalanche of data provided by the traceability of many social activities represents a major scientific, economic and social revolution. A new field called “network science” has emerged to study these data, but, so far, it has not brought any important new insight into the social world. To overcome this lack of relevance, the two main challenges are to analyze the dynamical aspects of data  and to foster the collaboration between social and natural scientists (mainly computer science, signal processing, physics).ENS de Lyon supports the creation of a world-class interdisciplinary research group to take advantage of big data to improve scientific understanding, economic and social benefits. It offers a lecturer permanent position (Maître de Conférences) at the Computer Science department and laboratory  of ENS de Lyon to an outstanding young network scientist. The position is supported by an INRIA Chair, which means reduced teaching duties and financial support (http://www.inria.fr/en/research/research-teams/teaching-and-research-chairs). In the strategic direction of “network science”, and in collaboration with the Complex Systems Institute, the candidate will reinforce LIP laboratory whose research  is organised along two complementary axes : challenges of future computing and communication architectures; mathematical computer science.