Fully funded PhD positions at the Conceptual and Cognitive Modelling Research Group (CORE)

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CALL FOR PhD POSITIONS
(Deadline: 8th of July, 2019)

Fully funded PhD positions at the
Conceptual and Cognitive Modelling Research Group CORE
KRDB Research Centre

http://core.inf.unibz.it

Faculty of Computer Science - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
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15 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 euro (i.e., 17,000 euro per year); for
research visits abroad the grant increases up to 50%. Substantial
extra funding (including a personal budget of 2,500 euro per year) is
available for participation to international conferences, schools,
workshops, or research visits. The language of the PhD programme is
English.

The deadline for applications is the 8th of July, 2019.

For more information, the call, and application requirements, please
visit:

www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science/
www.unibz.it/en/applicants/international-applicants/phd-programmes/

Bolzano is located in one of the most fascinating European regions,
the Dolomites. The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is a young
university that has already established itself as an important
research institution, both in Italy and abroad. According to the Times
Higher Education World University Rankings 2018, the university is ranked
9th amongst the world's best small universities, and its Faculty of
Computer Science is
ranked among the 150 best CS departments worldwide (in absolute terms)
and it is the 21st best Computer Science department worldwide for
scientific citations.

The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data <krdb.eu> of the
Faculty of Computer Science is widely recognised as one of the
internationally leading groups in Artificial Intelligence and
Knowledge Representation research, with a synergy between foundational
and application-oriented research. Among the various available PhD
topics described in the call, the CORE Research Group
(https://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/core/)
is looking specifically for
PhD students interested in:

- Cognitive Artificial Intelligence;
- Knowledge Representation and Non-Classical Logic
- Semantic Technologies;
- Conceptual and Cognitive Modelling;
- Applied Ontology.

To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre and discuss about the
opportunities of this call contact

Giancarlo Guizzardi
Giancarlo.Guizzardi@unibz.it
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nnfVBt8AAAAJ

and Oliver Kutz
Oliver.Kutz@unibz.it
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=46NU9sEAAAAJ