Personnel/staffing situation

Chris George has been Director a.i. since March 2003. Interviews for a new Director were held in December 2003 and an offer made to Prof Martin Wirsing from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. But, after a long deliberation, in May 2004 he eventually declined the offer. Since then Prof. Mike Reed from Oxford University, UK, has been interviewed and offered the position, and he will start in January 2005. The continuing uncertainty over this position has complicated the future planning of activities and initiatives.

Two people were offered Research Fellow positions following interviews in September 2003. One, Antonio Cerone, accepted and joined UNU-IIST in February 2004. Antonio was previously at the Software Verification Research Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is an expert in formal methods, particularly models for concurrency and model checking.

The second offer was not accepted, the person involved apparently not wanting to move away from Europe. The position was advertised again in early 2004. The 50 applicants were not of very good quality, but in the meantime, former Research Fellow Tomasz Janowski had come to Macao in February 2004 on a PSA to manage the e-Macao project and he applied for the vacancy. He was appointed and starts from 1 October 2004.

Ojo Adegboyega from Nigeria has been appointed a post-doctoral fellow for the e-Macao project from 1 May on a (renewable) 1-year contract.

A complete list of personnel may be found in appendix *.

Personnel/staffing situation

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