Dear colleagues,

We have an open position in the new project “Virtual Research Environment for Materials Modeling and Data Analysis” of the Joint Lab “Virtual Materials Design” starting in January 2021.

Workflow management, data analysis and visualization in materials science rely currently on generic tools and frameworks and general-purpose languages that require from domain researchers programming and command-line skills, and significant learning, development, validation and maintenance efforts.

The main task is to devise a use-case driven domain specific language covering common objects and frequent tasks in computational materials science. This language should allow expressions covering selected use cases and abstract from knowledge of the underlying workflow models and data analysis tools. The new language is expected to increase productivity of domain scientists and enable rapid prototyping. In addition, language processors (interpreter or generator) and supporting tools have to be developed and integrated into an interactive platform (JupyterLab) together with established generic workflow management, data analysis and visualization tools.

The successful candidate should have a master degree in computer science or a similar discipline and a very good knowledge of at least one programming language, preferably Python. Good programming and software engineering skills, knowledge of DSL frameworks, for example Xtext, textX or JetBrains MPS, and/or modeling frameworks (for example EMF or PyEcore) will be beneficial.

We offer a unique interdisciplinary working environment to provide IT services and perform research under one roof and the opportunity for a career step toward computational science with focus on materials science.

Applications and inquiries should be sent via email to Dr. Ivan Kondov (ivan.kondov@kit.edu).

With my best regards, Ivan Kondov

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC)

Dr. Ivan Kondov Scientific Computing and Mathematics

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