PhD research fellowships at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Up to 6 PhD research fellowships are offered in the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering (IME), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The department wants as good applicants as possible, hence there are no restrictions on the research topic, as long as the candidate works within one of the department’s research areas, cf. the department’s web pages with an overview of its research groups: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/about/groups.php. Applicants must have a Master degree in computer science, informatics, software engineering, information systems or similar is required. The PhD fellow is expected to participate in the professional community within the relevant areas of IDI. Applicants must contact a preferred supervisor at the department (professor or associate professor, specific persons can be found by clicking the research groups that seem most appropriate on the web page mentioned above), and in collaboration with the preferred supervisor make a project description of 2000-3000 words to follow the application. The project description is to document theoretical and methodological knowledge about the research area together with a sketch of important research problems. The evaluation of applicants will be based on their education, job experience, possibly other relevant experience and scientific publications. Applicants must satisfy the formal requirements for admission to the PhD studies at NTNU. See http://www.ime.ntnu.no/english/research/phd for detailed information on the PhD programs administrated by IME. For full announcement, see: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/about/description_jobs.php?id=163 Application are to be submitted electronically, see link below. https://secure.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=62406 Applications should be marked IME-064-2009. Closing date: 2009-12-01.