PhD Fellowships in Information and Communication Technologies.DTIC-UPF, Barcelona (up to 20 PhD positions)The Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona seeks doctoral applications for the academic year 2015-16 from talented students with a strong interest in research.
DTIC Research Positions 2015-2016
These fellowships are considered as Predoctoral Research Contracts (PRC), due to the approval of the Spanish law 14/2011 on Science, Technology and Innovation.
Applications are invited for the DTIC fellowships, which are targeted at exceptional predoctoral researchers in the DTIC's research areas. The fellowship provides a recognized first step into a research career.
Welcome to Pompeu Fabra!
Why DTIC-UPF?
UPF is ranked as the most productive university in Spain in research outcome and attraction of funds (THE2013) and13th worldwide among young universities (THE2013, 100 under 50). DTIC-UPF community (> 50 nationalities)conducts research in a broad range of fields created around the convergence of ICT with computing science, networks,biomedical and cognitive sciences. The active participation in international programs (65 projects in FP7, including 9prestigious ERC grants and the Human Brain Project)creates a unique environment for the development of talented researchers.
Which topics?
COGNITIVE AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: Cognition, Computation and Robotics; Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Computer Science; Natural Language Processing; Ubiquitous Computing;Information Retrieval and Data Mining; Cognitive Multimedia Technologies
AUDIOVISUAL TECHNOLOGIES: Image Processing and Computer Vision; Image Processing for Enhanced Cinematography; Sound and Music Computing; Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Educational Technologies
NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS: Network Technologies and Strategies; Wireless Communications; Information Theory and Coding
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS: Computational Neuroscience;Computational Imaging and Computational Physiology; Analysis of Biomedical Data; Non-linear signal analysis; Instrumentation and Biomedical Electronics; Simulation, Imaging and Modelling for Biomedical Systems.
Graduates from the program currently pursue careers in leading academic, industrial, and clinical centresaround the world, as well as entrepreneurial careers with companies such as Reactable, BMAT or Near Future Lab. Some recent recognitions for PhD students include the Cisco Security Grand Challenge 2014, the European Young Researchers' Award 2013, the National Commendation for Invention from the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation in 2013 and the BBVA Innova Challenge 2013 International Competition on Big Data.
Requirements
Candidates for PhD positions must hold an MsC degree or equivalent. Candidates not fulfilling this requirement may be interested in DTIC’s 1-year research master programs as a stepping stone to later join the PhD program (Sound and Music Computing, Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media, Intelligent Interactive Systems - with UPC, Brain and Cognition, Computer Vision - coordinated by UAB, Wireless Communications -with UPC, starting 2015-16).
Contact and application
Initial contact with potential supervisors and early applications are strongly encouraged. Applications are accepted continuously with 5 application periods along the year, until June 26th 2015.
First PhD application period: November 24th, 2014 to January, 23th, 2015
Second PhD application period: January, 24th, 2015 to March, 13th, 2015
Third PhD application period: March, 14th, 2015 to May, 15th, 2015
Fourth PhD application period: May 16th, 2015 to June, 26th, 2015
Early applications are very much encouraged. In particular, we highly recommend candidates coming from outside the EU to apply before the last Application Period
Submit the application form (in pdf format) by e-mail to [email protected]
Duration of the fellowship (PRC)
Four years, renewed yearly.
Eligibility
Candidates must have submitted a PhD application. Only candidates accepted to the PhD program are eligible a fellowship (PRC). Hence, every fellowship application should be paired up with an admissions application into the PhD program. Admissions to the PhD program are handled by the University Admission Office.
Types of fellowship (PRC):
The Department offers two types of contracts:
RDI (PIPF2): Includes teaching assistance (40 hours) and research tasks. Gross month Salary 976.99€* (651.33€* + extra amount funded by the research project)
Full PhD DTIC (PIPF1): Includes teaching assistance tasks (60 hours). Gross month Salary 976.99€*
Non-EU students will have a reduction of 24.75% the three first months (till December, if the contract starts in October).The corresponding taxes will be deducted from January when the new fiscal year starts.
* Take into consideration that this amount corresponds to the wages established for the 2014-15 academic course.
Fees covered by the fellowship (PRC)
Both types of fellowships/PRC (RDI and Full DTIC) include the annual tutorship fees, but not the administrative fees neither the fees for validations of degrees issued by a university outside the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) without homologation. Check here for further information.
The year salary gets an increase of 6% during the 3rd year and 20% during the 4th year.
PhD Fellowships in Information and Communication Technologies.DTIC-UPF, Barcelona (up to 20 PhD positions)The Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona seeks doctoral applications for the academic year 2015-16 from talented students with a strong interest in research.
