Pompeu Fabra University PhD Fellowships
The Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra seeks doctoral applications from talented students with a strong interest in research. Candidates for PhD positions must hold an M.Sc degree or equivalent.
CALL FOR DTIC PhD FELLOWSHIPS 2016-2017 (PDF)
DTIC Research Positions 2016-2017
These fellowships are considered as Predoctoral Research Contracts (PRC), due to the approval of the Spanish law 14/2011 on Science, Technology and Innovation.
Applications are invited for the DTIC fellowships, which are targeted at exceptional predoctoral researchers in the DTIC's research areas. The fellowship provides a recognized first step into a research career.
We highly encourage that, before applying, each candidate identifies one or several DTIC research supervisor with whom he/she would like to work and contact them. Support from a potential research supervisor is very important during the fellowship selection process (and to get admitted to the PhD program, too).
Host institution:
Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Research Areas
Students will pursue doctoral studies in one of the Research Areas of the department which include Cognition, Computation and Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Ubiquitous Computing, Information Retrieval and Data Mining, Cognitive Multimedia Technologies, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Image Processing for Enhanced Cinematography, Sound and Music Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Educational Technologies, Network Technologies and Strategies, Wireless Communications, Information Theory and Coding, Computational Neuroscience, Instrumentation and Biomedical Electronics, Computational Imaging and Computational Physiology, Analysis of Biomedical Data and Non-Linear Signal Analysis.
Application Period 2015-2016
First PhD application period: November 30th, 2015 to January, 15th, 2016 Resolution 25/02/2016
Second PhD application period: January, 16th, 2016 to March, 4th, 2016 Resolution 21/04/2016
Third PhD application period: March, 5th, 2016 to April, 22th, 2016 Resolution 02/06/2016
Fourth PhD application period: April 23rd, 2016 to June, 10th, 2016 Resolution 20/07/2016
Early applications are very much encouraged. In particular, we highly recommend candidates coming from outside the EU to apply before the last Application Period
How to apply
• Fill the application form
• For any consults contact to secretaria.dtic@upf.edu
Duration of the fellowship (PRC)
Maximum four years, renewed yearly.
Eligibility
Candidates must have submitted a PhD application. Only candidates accepted to the PhD program are eligible a fellowship (PRC). Hence, every fellowship application should be paired up with an admissions application into the PhD program. Admissions to the PhD program are handled by the University Admission Office.
Types of fellowship (PRC):
Fees covered by the fellowship (PRC)
Both types of fellowships/PRC include the annual tutorship fees, but not the administrative fees neither the fees for validations of degrees issued by a university outside the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) without homologation. Check here for further information.Fees covered by the fellowship (PRC)
The year salary gets an increase of 6% during the 3rd year and 20% during the 4th year.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
https://portal.upf.edu/web/etic/predoctoral-research-contracts