VISITING POSITIONS
Social Dynamics Research, Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge
http://researchswinger.org/visiting.pdf

The Social Dynamics team at Bell Labs Cambridge (UK) welcomes an interdisciplinary community of academics and practitioners to join the lab as visitors for a few months in its mission to explore the areas of Computational Social Science for the key themes of Urban, Health, and Culture; Computer Vision; Data Mining; Interaction Design and Visual Analytics; and Complex Networks.

|Nokia and Bell Labs|
Nokia is a global leader in the technologies that connect people and things. Powered by the pioneering work of Bell Labs, our research and innovation division, and Nokia Technologies, we are at the forefront of creating and licensing the technologies that are increasingly at the heart of our connected lives.

|Bell Labs Cambridge|
Bell Labs' research facility in Cambridge carries out leading research in the area of Social Analytics. In a new scenario of interconnected things, people will, almost more than ever before, matter. The Social Dynamics team works on the idea of a society empowered by digital data with the goal of finding solutions to real problems and contributing to generalizable knowledge. As part of the emerging research area of Computational Social Science, we answer questions typical of the social sciences using computational methods and produce long-term research (in very Bell Labs style). Members of the team include Daniele Quercia (www.researchswinger.org), Luca Maria Aiello (www.lajello.com), and Miriam Redi (www.visionresearchwitch.com).

|Main responsibilities|
1. Contribute to the technical definition of research objectives and programs.
2. Propose and publish research for the major research publications worldwide.

|Expected qualifications, skills and experience|
1. World-class research track record (for academics) or world-class project portfolio (for practitioners) in any of the areas of interest.
2. Ability to adapt own vision to lab-wide s.

|How to Apply|
Please send your application material with the subject line Visiting to daniele.quercia@nokia-bell-labs.com by the 1st of October 2016 (later applications are still considered). This material should include your CV, a brief proposal that spells out the work you would like to conduct during your visit, proposed length of visit, and a copy of a recent publication or an example of relevant work. For informal inquiries, please contact daniele.quercia@nokia-bell-labs.com, luca.aiello@nokia.com or miriam.redi@nokia.com.