[AISWorld] PhD scholarships @SwSE, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

[Xiaofeng Wang]

10 four-years 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 €; for research visits abroad the grant can increase up to 50%. Substantial extra funding is available for participation to international conferences, schools, workshops, research visits. The language of the PhD program is English.

The deadline for applications is 3 July 2017.
For more info, the call, and applications look at:
www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science <http://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science> 

The university is located in one of the most fascinating European regions, the Dolomites (https://youtu.be/g5V3mJEE6bw <https://youtu.be/g5V3mJEE6bw>).  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 2017, the university is the tenth world’s best small university, is the fifth  best among all the Italian Universities with computer science departments, and it is the second best young Italian University.

The Software and Systems Engineering Research Group (SwSE)

https://swse.inf.unibz.it <http://swse.inf.unibz.it/>

at the Faculty of Computer Science is internationally renown for its research in the field "Software and Systems Engineering." 

Our group is looking for highly motivated and talented candidates that are interested in pursuing their PhD study in one of the following areas:

- Empirical Software Engineering
- Mining Software Repositories
- Software Evolution and Maintenance 
- Software Visualisation
- Software Reliability and Testing
- Software Architecture 
- Software System Behavior
- Cloud and IoT Systems and Technologies 
- Software Performance Engineering
- Recommender Systems in Software Engineering
- Agile and Lean Processes
- Lean Startup and Software Startups

To get in contact with the SwSE Research Group and discuss about the opportunities of this call contact  prof. Claus Pahl  at Claus.Pahl at unibz.it <mailto:Claus.Pahl at inf.unibz.it>.