6 PhD fellowships: HEART; Marie Skłodowska-Curie 1030 views

A project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research & innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie offers 6 PhD fellowships within the framework of HEART: HEalth related Activity Recognition system based on IoT.

About the project HEART:

• The research program aims for a personalized approach of mobile health coaching programs that involve the user and that are tailored to individual needs (putting the user at the HEART of the system).
• Programs will control on a health integrated activity recognition platform that can detect activities from heterogeneous data, using scalable algorithms, while safeguarding the privacy of the person.

About the positions:

• ESR1 – Health Behavior Analytics on heterogeneous Data
• ESR2 – Scalability of data analytics
• ESR3 – Scalability of data processing
• ESR4 – Privacy and security analytics
• ESR5 – Privacy by design and by research. the legal issues from conceptualization to commercialization
• ESR6 – Understanding China: from customers’ needs to market penetration

Hiring institutions:

• ESR1 and ESR4 will be hired by Philips Electronics Nederland B.V. (the Netherlands);
• ESR2 and ESR3 will be hired by KU Leuven (Belgium);
• ESR5 and ESR6 will be hired by the University of Macerata (Italy).
• Duration of the employment: expected start date January 2018, duration 36 months. for ESR5-6 (at Uni Macerata), and 48 months for ESR1-2-3-4 (at KU Leuven and Philips).

Value:

• 600€ Mobility Allowance per month (7200€ / year)
• 500€ Family Allowance per month (6000€ / year)

Eligibility:

• Applicant must hold Master’s degree or equivalent.
• Applicants must not have a PhD degree.
• Applicant must possess English proficiency attested either through a previous English language diploma, or an internationally recognised proficiency test (at least C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages i.e. IELTS, IBT, TOEFL or Cambrigde).
• Applicant must be within the first four years of their research careers.
• Applicant must not have resided, or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of the hiring institution for more than a year in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date.

Application:

• Complete the on-line application. Following documents to be submitted in English:
• CV (Europass Format in English) highlighting activities and place where the activities have been carried out in order to give evidence of fulfilling the mobility eligibility criterion
• Academic CV with references to past research and training experiences
• Motivation letter highlighting the consistency between the candidate‘s profile and the chosen ESR position for which you are applying
• At least 2 letters of Academic reference
• Scan of the degree qualification
• Language proficiency evidence
• Scanned copy of valid identification document (identity card or passport)
• Declaration of Honour according to the template available in the website.
• Any further and relevant supporting documents (eg. research publications), OPTIONAL