4 PhD positions ICT, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy

Call for application A.Y. 2008-09 – Non EU citizens
http://www.sssup.it/context.jsp?ID_LINK=375&area=46

Online application
http://www.sssup.it/domandeSifur/index_perf_phd.jsp

Selection overview
The Ph.D. in Innovative Technologies of Information & Communication
Engineering and Robotics is a three-year residential program with
highly interdisciplinary connotation, where students can specialize
in one of the following curricula:

- Embedded Systems, with emphasis on real-time systems and resource
management.
- Telecommunications, especially referring to networks and photonic
technologies.
- Biorobotics, including micro-engineering, biomedical engineering,
biomimetic robotics, rehabilitation technologies and computer
assisted surgery.
- Perceptual Robotics, with emphasis on telerobotics, cognitive
robotics and virtual environments.

Admission Requirements:
- Applicants must hold a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree or
equivalent title;
- they should not be older than 35 years on June 17, 2008; older than
35 may be exceptionally admitted by the Examination Committee;
- the candidates whose native language is not English should hold an
internationally acknowledged certificate specifying their
intermediate-level of English knowledge.

Positions and grants:
- 4 positions with 4 fellowships (amounting to € 12.500 per year +
free meals at school’s canteen + Campus facilities): 1 position for
each curriculum

Deadlines:
- Candidates are requested to apply online at:
www.sssup.it/phdapplicationonline by June 17, 2008, 12.00 pm GMT. In
case of problems with the online application, please contact the PhD
Administration Office (tel. +39 050 883-383/335/220, e-mail:
infophd@sssup.it).
- An hardcopy of the application (signed by the candidate), together
with the enclosures requested, must reach (regardless of delivery
date) by June 24, 2008:

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Divisione Formazione Universitaria e alla Ricerca
Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33
56127 PISA, Italy

“Application PhD in Innovative Technologies” must be written on the
envelopment.

Application and attachments:
Enclosures to the hard copy of the applications:
a) a copy of their passport;
b) two copies of their Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum. Please, use the
EU modelc) photocopy of Candidate’s University Master Degree (to be
translated in Italian or in English except those written in French,
German, Spanish);
d) detailed list of academic courses taken. This list should contain
information regarding credits, units (or equivalent) received, the
grades received for each class taken, and the date when the final (or
semester) examination was taken;
e) a copy of their degree thesis (or two abstracts in English) and a
copy of any other publication that they deem suitable;
f) the certificates of knowledge of the English language;
g) two copies of a detailed Research Project, of no more than 3,000
words, which will describe the research activities that applicants
would like to perform during the PhD course. The Research Project
will include:
- a title;
- the scientific premises and the relevant bibliography;
- the aim and expectations of the research;
- the experimental methods and data analysis methods which will be
used, where required;
h) at least two Reference Letters written by Faculty Members who have
supervised the applicant’s work during his/her university studies;
i) a numbered list of documents attached

Selection of applicants:
- Assessment of the Titles: assessment of all the submitted documents
and publications, including the CV, and the Research Project.

Beginning of the PhD Programme
The PhD Programme will start on November 5, 2009

Information:
infophd@sssup.it
techschool@sssup.it

Attached documents:
PhD Programme in Innovative Technologies – Non EU Citizens (file pdf,
60 Kb)
CV European template (file doc, 113 Kb)

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