Tenure track position (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor) in Information studies / Tenure track -tutkijan, -professorin tai professorin tehtävä (Informaatiotutkimus)

"Information studies at Tampere University, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, hosts internationally acknowledged researchers studying information management, information practices, information searching, and other information-related phenomena. In Information Studies, the need for research and teaching in the areas of Open Science has gained importance in recent years. Open Science and pursuing open research are central themes in raising research quality and sustainable access to information. 

We are seeking a highly motivated and accomplished academic who will be an active and innovative co-builder of the research and teaching area of Information Studies. The final profile of the position can be tailored according to your specific expertise and can include, for example, the following themes:

• Scholarly publishing: open access publishing in its various forms, open access, and scholarly communication research.
• Open data and open research materials:  open research data and its archiving,  metadata and data re-use, interoperability of open data and research materials.
• Research processes: open research processes, research ethics in open science, research infrastructures for open science.
• Scholarly impact in open science: open research and its impact, social media and open research, altmetrics, scientometrics, and informetrics...."