[AISWorld] Postdoctoral Fellowships at Lero

[Brian.Fitzgerald]

2nd Call for Proposals NOW OPEN!
Deadline 21/09/2018

This is a research training and career development opportunity featuring:

  *   Individual research project under the academic supervision of a leading Lero researcher,
  *   Freedom to choose the research project topic provided it falls within the broad programme themes and the research interests of an eligible ALECS academic supervisor,
  *   3-6 months secondment to the non-academic sector



13+ fellowships may be awarded in the 2nd call.
Register interest NOW at alecs at lero.ie<mailto:alecs at lero.ie>



ALECS is an innovative fellowship programme coordinated by Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre<https://lero.ie/>. The initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme (Grant agreement No. 754489) and by Science Foundation Ireland<http://www.sfi.ie/>, through Lero.

The aim of the programme is to provide training and career development to researchers through providing international mobility and intersectoral exposure. As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, ALECS offers high quality professional opportunities open to researchers who either have a PhD degree or at least 4 years full-time equivalent research experience (in academia or industry).

Research themes

  *   Methods and standards for high integrity systems
  *   Autonomous and adaptive systems
  *   Software performance
  *   Security and privacy

Eligibility criteria

·         Candidates must be in possession of a doctoral degree or must have at least four years full-time equivalent research experience at the call deadline.

·         Applicants may not have resided or carried out their main activity (e.g. work, study) in Ireland for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline. For career-restart and reintegration applications, a relaxed mobility rule applies.

·         Candidates must discuss their proposal with an eligible academic supervisor. Applications without the support of an eligible supervisor will not be considered.

Selection process

Fellows will be recruited via internationally adverstised open call for proposals. Selection process will include international peer review followed by an interview stage.

Additional allowances/support

Family allowance (if eligible); comprehensive training and career development programme provided.

For further programme details and for details on how to apply, please see alecs.lero.ie<http://alecs.lero.ie/>.

Contact:

Mariana Clohessy

Email: alecs at lero.ie<mailto:alecs at lero.ie>

Telephone: 00 353 61 233 637

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Prof Brian Fitzgerald, PhD, FICS, FBCS, CEng.
Director
Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre
www.lero.ie