2 Marie-Curie Ph.D. Fellowship Position for early-stage researchers in Online Social Networking

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label Burse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:00 history_edu Cristian Ion
The STRICT SociaLab announces the availability of 2 Marie-Curie Ph.D. Fellowship Position for early-stage researchers in Online Social Networking technologies.

Position 1: Decentralized Access Control and Privacy Protection Services (for more information http://isocial-itn.eu/iSocial-INSUB-ESR6)
Position 2: Privacy, Risk Analysis and Trust Management (or more information http://isocial-itn.eu/iSocial-INSUB-ESR7)



The position are for three (3) years (with the possibility of extension to the 4th), starting in early 2013. The positions are funded by the European Commission under the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) program iSocial, which focuses on the design of distributed and scalable overlay networking and distributed storage infrastructures for open online social networks and for innovative social network applications that preserve end-user privacy and information ownership. The main objective of the iSocial Initial Training Network is to provide world class training for a next generation of researchers, computer scientists, and Web engineers, emphasizing on a strong combination of advanced understanding in both theoretical and experimental approaches, methodologies and tools that are required to develop Decentralized Online Social Networking platforms.

Successful candidates are expected to join the Ph.D. program of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Science, University of Insubria, to conduct original research in collaboration with the principal investigators of iSocial, and to contribute actively to the activities planned of the project (scientific publications, taking courses, secondments, participation to meetings and events, preparation of educational material, coordination of work, etc.).