LASIGE offers scholarships for the University of Lisbon PhD program in Computer Science and Engineering (a.k.a. PhD in Informatics), open to students of all nationalities: PhD from University of Lisbon: full time in Lisbon.

Dual PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Lisbon: CMU and FCUL are offering recently a dual program— one program, two PhD degrees, living approximately half of the time in each town (Pittsburgh and Lisbon). More info at: http://cmuportugal.di.fc.ul.pt

DEADLINE: The application process to the PhD Program is open all year round; analysis of applications is made at periodic cut-off intervals, and selected students are advised about the next steps.

NEXT CUT-OFF DATE: 1st November 2010

• Students will benefit from an extremely lively research and teaching environment in top, state-of-the-art, areas
• Full financial support, through a number of scholarships to cover tuition and expenses of students, regardless of nationality.
• Students can apply to both programs.

Main research areas of this call

• SECURITY AND INTRUSION TOLERANCE in Distributed Systems
• DEPENDABILITY and ADAPTATION in Real-Time and Embedded Systems

Knowing more about the research opportunities

Research areas, aligned with international projects:

• DEPENDABLE AND SECURE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES
  KEYWORDS: critical infrastructures such as electrical utilities; grid and cloud computing; middleware and protocols; intrusion tolerance, Byzantine resilience and computing with trustworthy components
• EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF ATTACK TOLERANCE IN DISTR. SYS.
  KEYWORDS: commerce and critical infrastructures; attack injection tools
• DEPENDABLY ADAPTIVE REAL-TIME DISTR. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES
  KEYWORDS: automotive; car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure; systems of embedded systems; middleware and protocols; autonomy and cooperation; uncertainty vs. predictability; QoS adaptation
• SECURITY AND RESILIENCE OF NETWORKED AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS
  KEYWORDS: embedded systems security; trusted ad-hoc peer-to-peer car coordination; car to home-base communication; secure and safe upload, download

These areas are aligned with 3 international projects starting late 2010:

• TCLOUDS – Trustworthy Clouds – Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale Critical Infrastructure (EC-IST FP7)
• MASSIF – MAnagement of Security information and events in Service (EC-IST FP7)
• TRONE – Trustworthy and Resilient Operations in a Network Environment (FCT CMUPortugal program)

N.B.- To know more, check the Navigators web site http://www.navigators.di.fc.ul.pt/

Pre-Application

Eligible candidates:

• Holders of MSc degrees (pre- or post-Bologna) or equivalent.
• Licentiate graduates with a minimal grade 16/20.
• Holders of foreign academic qualification declared equivalent.
• Candidates with at least Good with Distinction in FCUL PEI.
• Holders of an academic and professional scientific curriculum which reflects a capacity to the PhD qualification.
• Candidates from other areas granted a request for Equivalence
• Publications, awards and other relevant aspects included in the Curriculum Vitae will be considered in the selection.
• Affinity of research interests and experience in the proposed areas will also be considered.

Students can apply to either or both programs. They should state their choice in the statement of purpose. Pre-selected students will be invited to complete their application to the program(s) selected.

Applicants should prepare the following elements:

TO BE SENT BY APPLICANTS:

• Curriculum vitae (name, address, degrees, work/research experience, publications, achievements, etc.),
• Scanned transcripts of grades and degrees claimed. Official documents will be required if pre-selected.
• General admission tests: GRE and TOEFL (check alternatives to TOEFL here). Mind the strict importance of performing these tests before the 1st November (in case you are not in possession of the scores by the application deadline, please mention it in the statement of purpose). Portuguese candidates applying only to PhD from University of Lisbon have this requirement waived.
• A statement of purpose (up to one page) with: the personal motivations for applying to the Univ. Lisboa; indication of the PhD program(s) they apply to; the desired research areas from the list in the call, in order of preference; and an optional request for financial support AND/OR indication of any alternative or supplemental support.

TO BE SENT BY REFEREES:

Three letters of reference, sent by the referees directly to us, in plain ascii or pdf or paper, as follows:

• Subject: LASIGE, Navigators – PHD SCHOLARSHIPS

• Body:
  To Whom it may concern
  Letter of Reference
  on behalf of Mr./Dr. so-and-so
  …text…

  Contacts and position of person recommending.

Applications should be emailed (preferred), mailed, or faxed to:

Email: navs-jobs@di.fc.ul.pt
Subject: PHD SCHOLARSHIPS

Postal address:
LASIGE, Navigators
Dpt. de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências, Univ. de Lisboa,
Campo Grande, Bloco C6
1700 – Lisboa, Portugal
Fax: +351 21 750 05 33
Email informal enquiries / expressions of interest to the same address