[Tccc] PostDoc Opportunities in Manaus - Amazonas - Brazil (UFAM - ETSS)
Kaio Rafael
kaiorafael
Thu Apr 26 10:19:11 EDT 2012
The Emerging Technologies and Security Systems Group of the Federal
University of Amazonas (UFAM), Brazil, is looking for enthusiastic and
talented young researchers to join us in a Postdoctoral Research
position.
Candidates do need to contact us, so that we will submit projects to a
committee that will accept up to 6 people in our area, according to
the quality of the candidates.
Accepted candidates will be founded by a grant that can last from 18
months to 36 months. In addition, candidates can apply for a permanent
professor position in the Institute of Computing at UFAM.
1. Requirements
Candidates should speak English and also be able to write scientific
reports (articles). As a member of the research group, it is expected
hard work, enjoying the idea of working in group and be interested in
making friends in Brazil. They should have already published at least
one paper in top venues related to network security area and/or
wireless network area. Speaking Portuguese is not mandatory. The
candidates will work with professors, master students and PhD students
that do speak English. As the candidates will be living in Brazil for
a period, they will probably be interested in learning Portuguese, but
this is not mandatory.
2. Emerging Technologies and System Security Group at UFAM:
The Emerging Technologies & System Security Research Group [ETSS] is a
research group from the Federal University of Amazonas in Brazil. Our
research focus is to identify emerging technologies and conceive new
security solutions that will have a high impact on innovation with
industrial relevance. ETSS works on research and development on behalf
of government and industry. To keep pace with the rate of change in
emerging technologies, we conduct a large amount of research in
existing and emerging technology areas including wireless sensor
network, emergency network architectures, mobile system and security
system.
We collaborate extensively with government, academia and private
sector entities including Nokia Institute, Ericsson Research, Telecom
ParisTech, INF Infineon, Fraunhofer Institute for applied Information
Technology, Instituto Superiore Mario Boella, Universit? Pierre et
Marie Curie -LIP6; Telecom ParisTech; ENS - Ecole Normale Sup?rieure;
Technische Universit?t M?nchen; Faculty of Sciences of the University
of Lisboa.
The group also offers a good infrastructure for research, including
financial support for maintaining labs. The group is currently
composed of 04 professors and it is part of the Graduate Program in
Computer Science at UFAM, that offers a master degree and a PhD
course. The professors also work on three undergraduate programs
(Computer Science, Information Systems and Computer Engineering). The
group has currently 04 PhD students and 15 master degree students.
3. Grant:
Accepted candidates will receive R$ 14,000.00 for financial support by
the first month and R$ 7,000.00 per month. An extra payment of
R$7,000.00 will be made each year. All free of taxes. The total grant
for the first year is then R$ 105,000.00 and the total grant for the
second year is R$ 91,000.00. This is all free of taxes. This amount is
enough to cover your living expenses in Manaus (Amazonas) considering
the cost of life in the city/region. Grants will be paid for a period
from 18 months to 36 months.
Interested candidates should send an e-mail to Eduardo Souto
(esouto*at* icomp.ufam.edu.br)
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Kaio Rafael,
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