DAAD-GSSP Doctoral Programme: 2 Scholarships 1428 views

The Leibniz Universität Hannover and the DAAD together are awarding 2 full Scholarships for Doctoral Researchers in Navigation, Robotics, Computer Vision, Geoinformatics, Filtering techniques. The scholarships will be awarded in 2019.

Duration: 03 years

Scholarship value: fully-funded; monthly grant 1.200 EUR with travel support, insurances, study and research allowances and if necessary rent or family allowances.

Requirements:

• Applicant must be highly motivated international candidates with an outstanding M.Sc. degree in Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Information Technology, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Robotics, or a related discipline.
• Applicant must demonstrate ability for interdisciplinary and independent work.
• Applicant must possess very good command of the English language and a passion for learning German is required.

Selections criteria:

• Only foreign students are accepted
• candidate must not have resided in Germany for more than 15 months, at the time of application
• Last final exam must have taken place no longer than 6 years ago

Offered projects:

1. Integrity Monitoring for Network-RTK Systems
2. Quality Estimation of Multi-Sensor-Systems (MSS) in a collaborative network
3. Collaborative positioning using imaging sensors
4. Combining probabilistic and interval-based error models for sensor fusion on mobile robots
5. Integrity measures for hierarchical and incremental map data acquisition

Applications:

• Application to be sent in electronic form (PDF) to icsensife.uni-hannover.de (in German or English) and the required documents are:
• CV,
• full academic record (certificates, transcript of record of B.Sc. and M.Sc. or equivalent in English or German language),
• 02 letters of recommendation from home institutes (official template of DAAD),
• A research statement (one page) indicating specific interest in the RTG, highlighting personal interest and strengths for a specific PhD topic, as well as initial research ideas concerning this topic (please refer to the project number in your statement).