[Jobinfo] Fwd: Several four-year PhD grants at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy

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Subject: 	Several four-year PhD grants at the Faculty of Computer 
Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy
Resent-Date: 	Tue, 26 May 2020 16:42:26 +0200
Resent-From: 	Gernot Salzer <gernot.salzer@tuwien.ac.at>
Resent-To: 	staff@informatik.tuwien.ac.at
Date: 	Tue, 26 May 2020 16:28:06 +0200
From: 	Enrico Franconi <franconi@inf.unibz.it>
To: 	salzer@logic.at



*18 four-year grants* are offered by the Faculty of Computer Science 
<http://www.inf.unibz.it/>of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano 
<https://www.unibz.it/>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. Some of the 18 PhD grants are 
supported by FBK <http://fbk.eu/>, CNR <http://cnr.it/>, University of 
Umeå <https://www.umu.se/en/department-of-computing-science/>, 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.

The deadline for applications will be on the *13th of July, 2020*.

For more info, the call, and applications look at: 
www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science 
<http://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science>

The university is located in one of the most fascinating European 
regions, the Dolomites <http://youtu.be/g5V3mJEE6bw>. This young 
university has already established itself as an important research 
institution, both in Italy and abroad. According to theTimes Higher 
Education World University Rankings 2019 
<https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings>, 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. 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.

The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data <http://krdb.eu/>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 
<http://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science>), 
the KRDB Research Centre is looking for PhD students interested in:

  * Logic-based languages for knowledge representation;
  * Intelligent data access and integration;
  * Semantic technologies;
  * Conceptual and cognitive modelling;
  * Data-aware process modelling, verification, and synthesis;
  * Business process monitoring, mining, and conformance;
  * Temporal aspects of data and knowledge;
  * Extending database technologies;
  * Visual and verbal paradigms for information exploration;
  * Reasoning with uncertain and imprecise knowledge.


To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre <http://krdb.eu/phd>and 
discuss about the opportunities of this call contact prof. Alessandro 
Artale at artale@inf.unibz.it <mailto:artale@inf.unibz.it>
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