Connectionists: 13 PhD Studentships and 3 Postdocs in Developmental Robotics (RobotDoc ITN)

[Angelo Cangelosi]

13 PhD Studentships and 3 Postdocs in Developmental Robotics

 (RobotDoc ITN)

To start 1st January 2010

RobotDoc (Robotics for Development of Cognition) is a multi-national doctoral training network for the interdisciplinary training on developmental cognitive robotics. The RobotDoc network consists of an excellent balance of academic and industrial partners, and of European and international laboratory leaders in developmental cognitive robotics. The network activities will have a significant impact on the career perspectives of the Fellows through training opportunities on industrial and academic research projects and skills. This network is funded by the European Union Marie Curie program ITN Initial Training Network.

The PhD students (called ESR: Early Stage Researchers) will develop advanced expertise of domain-specific cognitive robotics research skills and of complementary transferrable skills for careers in academia and industry. They will acquire hands-on experience through experiments with the open-source humanoid robot iCub, complemented by other existing robots available in the network's laboratories. Each PhD student will be employed by one of the RobotDoc partner institutions, and will also be expected to spend a study period in at least one of the other partner sites.


For further information contact Professor Angelo Cangelosi (acangelosi at plymouth.ac.uk<mailto:acangelosi at plymouth.ac.uk>), the RobotDoc network coordinator, or email directly the partner leaders for the specific institution/country you intend to apply. See details below



Partner institutions and positions available:

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH, UK: 2 PhD studentships and 1 two-year postdoc (contact Prof Angelo Cangelosi  acangelosi at plymouth.ac.uk<mailto:acangelosi at plymouth.ac.uk>)

UNIVERSITY OF ZÜRICH, Switzerland: 2 PhD studentships (contact Prof Rolf Pfeifer pfeifer at ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:pfeifer at ifi.uzh.ch>)

ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Italy: 1 PhD studentship and 1 two-year postdoc (contact Prof Giorgio Metta Giorgio.metta at iit.it<mailto:Giorgio.metta at iit.it>)

UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE, Sweden, 2 PhD studentships (contact Prof Tom Ziemke tom.ziemke at his.se<mailto:tom.ziemke at his.se>)

BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY, Germany, 2 PhD studentships (contact Prof. Britta Wrede bwrede at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de<mailto:bwrede at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>)

UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND, UK, 2 PhD studentships (contact Prof. Stefan Wermter stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk<mailto:stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk>)

UPPSALA UNIVERSITY, Sweden, 2 PhD studentships (contact Prof. Claes von Hofsten claes.von_hofsten at psyk.uu.se<mailto:claes.von_hofsten at psyk.uu.se>)

TELEROBOT Srl, Italy, 1 two-year postdoc (contact Dr Francesco Becchi francesco.becchi at telerobot.it<mailto:francesco.becchi at telerobot.it>)



Associate partner institutions (where PhD students can spend part of their studies)

RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan (Prof Jun Tani)

Yale University, USA (Prof Brian Scassellati)

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Prof Jerry Lin)

Honda European Research Institute, Germany (Dr Christian Goerick)

BARA British Automation and Robot Association, UK (Dr Paul Robinson)



Application deadline:

We aim to have all PhD students starting on 1 January 2010. Application deadlines vary between institutions, and you are advised to contact each partner as soon as possible, possibly before the end of September.



The following international mobility conditions apply:

Posts are open to candidate of all nationalities. Applicants must not be nationals of the country of the institution in which they are applying to. They must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country there are applying to, for longer than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment.



Early-Stage Researchers are defined as those who are, at the time of selection, in the first four years (full-time equivalent) of their research careers. This is measured from the date when they obtained the degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a doctorate, either in the country in which the degree was obtained or in the country in which the research training is provided, irrespective of whether or not a doctorate is envisaged.


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