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The Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry is located on the Viikki campus. The mission of the faculty is to promote the sustainable use of renewable natural resources through scientific research and research-based teaching. We focus on agricultural and forest sciences, food and nutrition, microbiology, as well as on economics and management. We cover the full natural resource chain from farm to fork, the entire field of forest sciences from soil chemistry to marketing, as well as the environmental effects of related activities. Graduates from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry are versatile experts in biosciences and business, able to meet the needs of both the business sector and society at large.
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The Department of Forest Sciences is one of the units of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry with a staff of about 100 persons: 17 professors, 5 assistant or associate professors, 13 university lecturers and 60-70 researcher and postgraduate students. The Department conducts internationally recognized forest research and provides the highest-level education based on the research. The focus areas of research are forest ecology, forest resource management and forest economics, business and policy. The Department is active in society, and has strong and long-term collaboration with research institutes and other Universities, government agencies, companies and other organizations nationally and internationally.
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The Department of Forest Sciences invites applications for the position of a

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER to a project: Deep learning of Ecosystem Service Indicator Maps for Agile and Precise forest planning (DESIMAP)

The position is a part of the DESIMAP project funded by the Academy of Finland and led by Professor Jari Vauhkonen. The aim of the DESIMAP project is to develop computational methods for forest management planning to be able to better utilize all information on small computation units provided by modern forest inventories. We seek for a data scientist to implement novel deep learning based solutions to learn from the uncertainties in the data as well as successes of previously solved forest planning problems, to reduce the computational complexity and improve reliability of forest planning proposals based on forest resource map data.

Requirements
- Doctoral degree in data science or applied mathematics, statistics, or other relevant field
- Knowledge of machine learning and deep learning in general. Detailed knowledge and preferably hands-on experience in implementing either convolutional neutral net-, deep reinforcement learning-, or Bayesian filtering-based solutions
- Good programming skills and demonstrated ability to implement methods in selected programming language or script-based computing environment such as Python, C++, Java, R or Matlab
- Ability to work independently
- Enthusiasm towards scientific research and eagerness to learn
- Good writing and other presentation skills.

The full-time position is available for three years. The post-doctoral researcher can start in August 2020 or according to agreement – however, the position can be filled until 31.8.2023. The salary of the successful candidate will be based on level 5 of the demands level chart for teaching and research personnel in the salary system of Finnish universities. The salary will be between 3 112 – 4 403 €/month, depending on the qualifications and experience of the appointee. A six month trial period will be applied.

Application should include the following documents in English as a SINGLE PDF file:
1) a cover letter
2) CV
3) list of publications
4) names and e-mail addresses of two referees.

Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate their problem solving abilities related to the field of the position in a pre-assignment.

Please submit your application through the University of Helsinki Recruitment System via the link Apply for the position. Applicants who are employees of the University of Helsinki are requested to submit their application via the SAP HR portal. The deadline for applications is 14 April 2020.

For further information, please contact Professor Jari Vauhkonen: jari.vauhkonen(at)helsinki.fi

Further information on the recruitment process may be obtained from HR Coordinator Sari Aaltonen, sari.aaltonen(at)helsinki.fi.

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