[alife] Artificial CSNs: PhD Opportunity in DCU ALife Lab

[Barry McMullin]

PhD Studentship with the DCU Artificial Life Laboratory
(Dublin, Ireland)

Applications are invited for a funded studentship to pursue
postgraduate research leading to a PhD at the Artificial Life
Laboratory, in the Research Institute for Networks and
Communications Engineering (RINCE), Dublin City University .

This studentship is supported by the EU FP6 funded project
ESIGNET.

The studentship provides a modest subsistence allowance, and also
covers the University fees (at the level applicable to EU
citizens only).

Candidates wishing to pursue Ph.D. research in this area should
be interested and motivated by the fundamental problems of
understanding and modelling the computational properties of
low-level, biological information and signal processing
systems. In your primary degree you should have already
demonstrated excellence in a cognate scientific discipline, such
as Engineering, Computer Science, or Biological Science. You
should have achieved a Bachelors award at either First Class
honours level or Second Class Honours Grade 1. Preferably, you
should have a solid grounding in systems- and
software-engineering. Experience in object oriented software
development, particularly in an X-Window environment, would be a
further advantage, but is not essential. Finally, candidates must
have excellent English language proficiency.

In the first instance, please address enquiries (accompanied by a
full curriculum vitae) by email to Barry McMullin. (Note that you
may have to respond to an automated confirmation email.)

Links:

DCU ALife Lab: http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~alife/
ESIGNET Project: http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~alife/esignet/summary.html