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<td>Several four-year PhD grants at the Faculty of Computer
Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy</td>
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<td>Tue, 26 May 2020 16:42:26 +0200</td>
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<td>Gernot Salzer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gernot.salzer@tuwien.ac.at"><gernot.salzer@tuwien.ac.at></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:staff@informatik.tuwien.ac.at">staff@informatik.tuwien.ac.at</a></td>
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<td>Tue, 26 May 2020 16:28:06 +0200</td>
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<td>Enrico Franconi <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:franconi@inf.unibz.it"><franconi@inf.unibz.it></a></td>
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<b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma"
color="#535353">18 four-year grants</font></b><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#535353"> are
offered by the </font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="4"
face="Tahoma" color="#f3540b"><a href="http://www.inf.unibz.it/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Faculty of Computer Science</a></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#535353">
of the </font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="4"
face="Tahoma" color="#f3540b"><a href="https://www.unibz.it/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Free University of Bozen-Bolzano</a></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#535353">
in Italy for its PhD programme. Each grant amounts to <b>68,000
€</b> (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. Some of the 18
PhD grants are supported by </font><font style="font-size:11pt"
size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#f3540b"><a href="http://fbk.eu/"
moz-do-not-send="true">FBK</a></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#535353">,
</font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma"
color="#f3540b"><a href="http://cnr.it/" moz-do-not-send="true">CNR</a></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#535353">,
</font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma"
color="#f3540b"><a
href="https://www.umu.se/en/department-of-computing-science/"
moz-do-not-send="true">University of Umeå</a></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#535353">,
and by software companies, and interested candidates might carry
out their PhD research in collaboration with these external
partners. The language of the PhD programme is English.<br>
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The deadline for applications will be on the <b>13th of July,
2020</b>.<br>
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For more info, the call, and applications look at: </font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#f3540b"><a
href="http://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science</a></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#535353"><br>
<br>
The university is located in one of the most fascinating
European regions, the </font><font style="font-size:11pt"
size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#f3540b"><a
href="http://youtu.be/g5V3mJEE6bw" moz-do-not-send="true">Dolomites</a></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#535353">.
This young university has already established itself as an
important research institution, both in Italy and abroad.
According to the</font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="4"
face="Tahoma" color="#f3540b"><a
href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Times Higher Education World
University Rankings 2019</a></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#535353">,
the university is the <b>ninth world’s best small university</b> 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.<br>
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</font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma"
color="#fc8008">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. 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.</font><font style="font-size:11pt"
size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#999998"><br>
</font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma"
color="#535353"><br>
The </font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma"
color="#f3540b"><a href="http://krdb.eu/" moz-do-not-send="true">KRDB
Research Centre for Knowledge and Data</a></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#535353">
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 </font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#f3540b"><a
href="http://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science"
moz-do-not-send="true">call</a></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#535353">),
the KRDB Research Centre is looking for PhD students interested
in:<br>
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color="#535353">
<li>Logic-based languages for knowledge representation;</li>
<li>Intelligent data access and integration;</li>
<li>Semantic technologies;</li>
<li>Conceptual and cognitive modelling;</li>
<li>Data-aware process modelling, verification, and synthesis;</li>
<li>Business process monitoring, mining, and conformance;</li>
<li>Temporal aspects of data and knowledge;</li>
<li>Extending database technologies;</li>
<li>Visual and verbal paradigms for information exploration;</li>
<li>Reasoning with uncertain and imprecise knowledge.</li>
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color="#535353"><br>
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<font style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma"
color="#535353">To get in contact with the </font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#f3540b"><a
href="http://krdb.eu/phd" moz-do-not-send="true">KRDB Research
Centre</a></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="4"
face="Tahoma" color="#535353"> and discuss about the
opportunities of this call contact prof. Alessandro Artale at </font><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#f3540b"><a
href="mailto:artale@inf.unibz.it" moz-do-not-send="true">artale@inf.unibz.it</a></font><font
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