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The University of Genova, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology IIT, is offering 25 research positions for PhD students in the multidisciplinary Doctoral School on HUMANOID TECHNOLOGIES covering the fields of ROBOTICS, NEUROSCIENCE AND NANOBIOTECHNOLOGIES
As stated in the general scientific program of IIT ( http://www.iit.it) , the «merging the three platforms enables a multidisciplinary approach to robotics, in which intelligence and cognition, in combination with state-of-the-art material and nanofabrication technologies should lead to the accomplishment of a humanoid robot in the long term. The distinctive mission of IIT is thus to create the forum where neuroscientists, engineers, material scientists can work together to realize the intelligent robots of the future». Expanding from this statement, the goal is to realize robots that will be able to perform complex tasks, to learn from examples and experience, to remember and to recall from analogies, to associate past and present situations, to detect and recognize individual events and generalize from individual experiences, to predict the outcome of actions and act consequently, to communicate in meaningful and “natural” ways, to express emotions and act socially.
This year’s students will have the opportunity to contribute to the start-up of the IIT headquarters laboratories in Morego (near Genoa – Italy) while attending the school’s educational and research activities.
The successful candidates should have a background in Robotics, Bioengineering, Computational Neurosciences, Computer Sciences, Physics, Biology, or a related field.
The fellowships have duration of minimum three years. Salary is, according to the Italian public service regulation, approximately € 12,500 per year. On top of that up to € 4,000 per year will be directly available for expenses related to participation to school and conferences. Extra support for accommodation expenses will be available.
According to the Italian public service regulations candidates should send an application letter and accompanying documents as described here:
http://www.liralab.it/IIT_school/CICLOXXII
http://www.iit.it/formazione.php?page=bandi&language=en
Deadline for the application is October 1st, 2006
The School starts in January 2007
For more information:
Scientific: Giulio Sandini (
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Administration: Ingrid Sica (
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