The Media Computing Group: Open Positions

We have the following openings. Please check back often as we always have new positions available. A good command of English is required for all positions. Experience with Mac OS X is strongly preferred. If you are interested in any of these positions please contact us.

Postdoctoral Researcher

We have an immediate opening for a postdoctoral researcher with a strong CS/HCI background, to lead a small, interdisciplinary team working on ubicomp in eHealth within the new Human-Technology Interaction Center, HumTec. Please contact Jan Borchers with your CV and recent publications list for details.

PhD Candidates (Doktoranden)

We have frequent openings for fully funded PhD students. These positions generally have a mix of research and teaching duties. For more information about our work, please see our research project pages. If you wonder whether you should apply, please check this list of some characteristics of our successful PhD students, and send a short email to Prof. Borchers with your CV, recent projects, and interests, to see if there is an open matching position. Since starting out in 2003, we've become Germany's leading HCI research group in terms of archival CHI publications (see CHI Ranking Germany).

Master's Thesis Candidates (Diplomanden)

Some Examples for Open Topics

• Counter Rotation in Snowboarding (Daniel)
• Phase Vocoder (Thorsten)
• Usability Design Guide for FEV Motorentechnik (Jonathan)
• Interactive Puppets (Jonathan)
• Robust Annotation System for Physical Books (Malte)

General Topics
Besides the advertised topics, we try to provide interesting topics to all of our students. To ask for such a topic, please send us a short mini-CV with your prior exams, activities, and interests highlighted.

• Wearable Computing and Tactile Interfaces (contact Daniel).
• Interacting with Audio and Video and Organic Interfaces (contact Thorsten).
• Interactive Graphics and other areas (contact Malte).
• Systems for Supporting Software Development and New Interfaces for Online Systems (contact Jonathan)
• other topics in HCI and Media Computing, e.g., HCI Design Patterns (contact Prof. Borchers).

Student assistants (Hiwis)

We are always looking for dedicated, self-reliant student assistants. Please contact any of us for further information.
One specific, a bit urgent job is about a follow-up to Gero's diploma thesis:

• Twend 2.0 (working title, Gero)