Three (3) PhD Positions in Cybersecurity, AREVA GmbH, Germany (2016)

Our Cybersecurity R&D team is looking for additional PhD students. The PhD students shall provide a major contribution to security assurance, smart security tests and forensic readiness.

Description
The team of 7 AREVA GmbH PhD students is supported by 3 University Partners, each with their own PhD students in the joint projects.

Each PhD student is expected to get deeply involved into an analytical part (modeling, attack-tree analysis, smart fuzzing) and a practical industrial automation part, including a SCADA platform.

Transversal topics related to operating systems, network security, FPGA technology, security metrics, digital forensics, etc. will be jointly addressed by multiple PhD students.
The PhD students have to publish and present generic results, as part of the funding is external.

Location: Erlangen/Germany; Begin: April-June 2016; Period: 3 years

Qualifications: You have high marks in your final graduation certificate in one of the disciplines:
- Information Security / Cybersecurity
- Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Automation
- or a discipline, that may support Cybersecurity, e.g. security law-enforcement

We expect an in-depth cybersecurity interest, knowledge of modeling and/or simulation, testing techniques and/or automation and basics of general information security standards or legislation.

English language proficiency is expected and German language knowledge is appreciated.

Further details:
http://ec.europa.eu