[agents] 13 four-year PhD grants at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy

[Nicolas Troquard]

13 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. The language of the PhD programme is English.

The deadline for applications will be on the 30th of June, 2021.

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:

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 and discuss about the
opportunities of this call contact prof. Alessandro Artale at
artale at inf.unibz.it
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