Two fully funded PhD scholarships for EU/UK applicants are available in the Security and Trust of Advanced Systems Group [1] (Prof. Achim Brucker [2] and Dr. Diego Marmsoler [3]) at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Exeter, UK [4].

We are looking for enthusiastic and outstanding Computer Science or Mathematics students with a strong background in some of the following topics:

- safety or security of (software) systems, - formal modelling or formal reasoning/verification, - program analysis or program verification, - language-based security - semantics of programming languages, - theorem proving, model checking, - cryptographic protocols, - distributed systems (e.g., blockchain), - specification-based testing, and - design and implementation of security architectures.

This award provides annual funding to cover UK/EU tuition fees and a tax-free stipend. For students who pay UK/EU tuition fees the award will cover the tuition fees in full, plus at least £15,009 per year tax-free stipend. The studentship will be awarded on the basis of merit for 3.5 years of full-time study.

For more details, please consult the official advertisement:

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=3887

The closing date for applications is midnight on 1 May 2020. Project-specific queries should be directed to the supervisors, Prof Achim Brucker (A.Brucker@exeter.ac.uk) or Dr Diego Marmsoler (D.Marmsoler@exeter.ac.uk).

Best, Achim and Diego

[1] http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/research/cyber-security/ [2] https://www.brucker.uk/ [3] https://marmsoler.com/ [4] http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/