Computer Science PhD grants @ KRDB - Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano Italy

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 increases up to 50%. Substantial extra funding (including a personal budget of 2,500 € per year) is available for participation to international conferences, schools, workshops, research visits. The language of the PhD program is English.

The deadline for applications will be in 9th of July, 2018.
For more info, the call, and applications look at:
www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science

The university is located in one of the most fascinating European regions, the Dolomites. 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 2018, the university is the tenth world’s best small university and it is the second best young Italian University. According to the same ranking, the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is the third best Italian computer science department, it is the best for international outlook Italian computer science department, and it is the best for citations Italian computer science department.

The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data of the faculty is widely recognised as one of the internationally leading groups in knowledge representation research, with a synergy between foundational and application-oriented research. Among the various available PhD topics described in the call, the KRDB Research Centre is looking for PhD students interested in:

	1	Logic-based languages for knowledge representation;
	2	Intelligent data access and integration;
	3	Semantic technologies;
	4	Conceptual and cognitive modelling;
	5	Data-aware process modelling, verification, and synthesis;
	6	Business process monitoring, mining, and conformance;
	7	Temporal aspects of data and knowledge;
	8	Extending database technologies;
	9	Visual and verbal paradigms for information exploration;
	10	Reasoning with uncertain and imprecise knowledge.

To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre and discuss about the opportunities of this call contact prof. Alessandro Artale at artale@inf.unibz.it.