PhD Scholarships in Big Data Infrastructures, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (2016-2017)

The eXascale Infolab http://exascale.info/ at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland has several openings for Ph.D. students starting now. XI is new lab focusing on creating next-generation information management infrastructures for scientific, semantic, and social data.

We are looking for highly qualified individuals with a M.Sc. in Computer Science (or related areas). Candidates must have strong analytical and programming skills, a good command of the English language, and a genuine interest in designing, building and publishing innovative approaches and systems to manage Big Data.

XI’s current endeavors include projects to build new Big Data infrastructures to manage GPS or time series data, and to integrate textual and scientific data through large-scale knowledge graphs. Our lab is highly international (see our current members http://exascale.info/members/ ) and collaborates with leading research institutions around the world (see our recent partners http://exascale.info/partners/ ).

Salary and social benefits are extremely competitive (salaries for Ph.D. students start at 47K CHF). The positions will be supported by a generous grant (2 million euros) from the European Research Council. The Ph.D. students will be able to join existing projects but also to establish their own research agenda with the help of other lab members.

Further details:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk