<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">********************************************************************************<br>CALL FOR PhD POSITIONS<br>(Deadline: 8th of July, 2019)<br><br>Fully funded PhD positions at the <br>Conceptual and Cognitive Modelling Research Group CORE<br>KRDB Research Centre<br><br><a href="http://core.inf.unibz.it">http://core.inf.unibz.it</a><br><br>Faculty of Computer Science - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy<br>********************************************************************************<br><br>15 four-year grants are offered by the Faculty of Computer Science of<br>the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy for its PhD programme.<br>Each grant amounts to 68,000 euro (i.e., 17,000 euro per year); for<br>research visits abroad the grant increases up to 50%. Substantial<br>extra funding (including a personal budget of 2,500 euro per year) is<br>available for participation to international conferences, schools,<br>workshops, or research visits. The language of the PhD programme is<br>English. <br><br>The deadline for applications is the 8th of July, 2019.<br><br>For more information, the call, and application requirements, please<br>visit:<br><br><a href="http://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science/">www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science/</a><br><a href="http://www.unibz.it/en/applicants/international-applicants/phd-programmes/">www.unibz.it/en/applicants/international-applicants/phd-programmes/</a><br><br>Bolzano is located in one of the most fascinating European regions,<br>the Dolomites. The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is a young<br>university that has already established itself as an important<br>research institution, both in Italy and abroad. According to the Times<br>Higher Education World University Rankings 2018, the university is ranked<br>9th amongst the world's best small universities, and its Faculty of Computer Science is<br>ranked among the 150 best CS departments worldwide (in absolute terms)<br>and it is the 21st best Computer Science department worldwide for<br>scientific citations.<br><br>The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data <<a href="http://krdb.eu">krdb.eu</a>> of the<br>Faculty of Computer Science is widely recognised as one of the<br>internationally leading groups in Artificial Intelligence and<br>Knowledge Representation research, with a synergy between foundational<br>and application-oriented research. Among the various available PhD<br>topics described in the call, the CORE Research Group<br>(<a href="https://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/core/">https://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/core/</a>)<br>is looking specifically for<br>PhD students interested in:<br><br>- Cognitive Artificial Intelligence;<br>- Knowledge Representation and Non-Classical Logic <br>- Semantic Technologies; <br>- Conceptual and Cognitive Modelling; <br>- Applied Ontology. <br><br>To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre and discuss about the<br>opportunities of this call contact <br><br>Giancarlo Guizzardi <br><a href="mailto:Giancarlo.Guizzardi@unibz.it">Giancarlo.Guizzardi@unibz.it</a><br><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nnfVBt8AAAAJ">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nnfVBt8AAAAJ</a><br><br>and Oliver Kutz<br><a href="mailto:Oliver.Kutz@unibz.it">Oliver.Kutz@unibz.it</a><br><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=46NU9sEAAAAJ">https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=46NU9sEAAAAJ</a><br><br><br>    <br><br></div></div>