13 four-year grants are offered by the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy for its PhD programme. Each grant amounts
to 68,000 € (i.e., 17,000 euro per year, net after taxes); for research visits
abroad the grant increases up to 50%. Additional substantial extra funding
(including a personal budget of 2,500 euro per year) is available for
participation to international conferences, schools, workshops, research
visits. The language of the PhD programme is English.
The deadline for applications will be on the 30th of June, 2021.
For more info, the call, and applications look at:
www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science
The university is located in one of the most fascinating European regions, the
Dolomites. This young university has already established itself as an important
research institution, both in Italy and abroad. According to the Times Higher
Education World University Rankings 2019, the university is the ninth world’s
best small university and it is the second best young Italian University, and
its Faculty of Computer Science is ranked among the 150 best Computer Science
departments worldwide (in absolute terms) and it is the 21st best Computer
Science department worldwide for scientific citations. According to the same
ranking, the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano is the third best Italian computer science department, it is the
best for international outlook Italian computer science department, and it is
the best for citations Italian computer science department.
At this time of global uncertainty, you may be wondering whether your
application to the PhD programme will be affected. The Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano is in constant contact with the competent authorities to monitor
the development of the COVID-19 emergency to provide the adequate preventive
actions for the university community. All interviews for short-listed
candidates will be held online. It is possible that by November 2020, when the
PhD programme starts, some restrictive measures may be in place: the university
will support new students to go through the initial process as smoothly as
possible. In any case, we are committed to continue our research and
supervision at the usual high quality level.
The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data of the faculty is widely
recognised as one of the internationally leading groups in Artificial
Intelligence Knowledge Representation research, with a synergy between
foundational and application-oriented research. Among the various available PhD
topics (fully described in the call), the KRDB Research Centre is looking for
PhD students interested in:
1 Logic-based languages for knowledge representation;
2 Intelligent data access and integration;
3 Semantic technologies;
4 Conceptual and cognitive modelling;
5 Data-aware process modelling, verification, and synthesis;
6 Business process monitoring, mining, and conformance;
7 Temporal aspects of data and knowledge;
8 Extending database technologies;
9 Visual and verbal paradigms for information exploration;
10 Reasoning with uncertain and imprecise knowledge.
To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre and discuss about the
opportunities of this call contact prof. Alessandro Artale at
[email protected]
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