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Eightteen PhD student grants in Computer Science, Bolzano (Italy), Deadline: 13 Jul 2020

18 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. Some of the 18 PhD grants are 
supported by FBK, CNR, University of Ume?, 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

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 
artale@inf.unibz.it

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