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Sweden : Postdoctoral position in Cryptography

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KTH is the largest technical university in Sweden. Education and research cover a broad spectrum within natural sciences and engineering, as well as architecture, industrial engineering and management, urban planning, work science and environmental engineering. KTH has 6,955 full-time equivalent students at Bachelor (first) level, 5,545 at Master (second) level, 1,314 at doctoral studies (third) level and 3,900 employees.

CSC is one of Sweden’s most advanced and successful research and education institutions in Information Technology situated at KTH and Stockholm University. The activities of the school focus on higher education and research within the traditional core areas of numerical analysis and computer science; from theory building and analysis of mathematical models to algorithm construction, implementation and simulation. Other core areas of growing importance are technology and methods for the support of human communication and computer mediated cooperation over distances in time and space. The applied research includes scientific computing, computer science, computer vision, robotics, neuroinformatics and neural networks, human-computer interaction, media technology and graphic arts, and communication through speech, language and music. For more information see:

www.kth.se/csc

go to"CSC International Website".

The theory group of CSC offers a stimulating research environment in a range of topics such as complexity theory and approximation algorithms, computer and network security, cryptography, programming languages, and formal methods.

We are now looking for a postdoc in cryptography and cryptographic protocols. The research may be done on foundational topics, e.g., relating basic notions, and/or more practically oriented topics, e.g., improving the efficiency, or proving the security, of concrete constructions.

Employment

Form of employment: One-year position.
Work time: Full time.
Start date: According to agreement.
Number of positions: 1.
The position is mainly a research position, with a small fraction of departmental duties (e.g. teaching).

Qualification

Applicants should have a PhD degree in a subject relevant for the research, such as cryptography or related areas of complexity theory.

To address its varied work, KTH aims to employ a diversity of talent and thus welcomes applicants who will add to the variety of the University, especially as concerns its gender structure.

Application

Application deadline: August 31, 2010.
Employer's reference number: D-2010-0274.

Applications via email to:

susanneb@csc.kth.se

Write reference number in the email subject. (CV, etc should be sent as an attachment preferably pdf-files.)
Alternatively applications by ordinary post to be sent to:
CSC att. Susanne Bergman, KTH, Lindstedtsvägen 3, 4th floor, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.

An application must include: CV, list of publications, copies of PhD diploma and thesis (a URL may be provided to the thesis), and names and contact details of at least two references, of which at least one is not a former supervisor of the applicant.

Contact(s)

Queries concerning PhD studies at KTH can be directed to:
Eva-Lena Åkerman, HR Manager
Phone: +46 8 790 9106

ela@csc.kth.se

Queries about the theory group at CSC and research can be directed to:
Douglas Wikström, Assistant Professor
Phone: +46 8 790 8138

dog@csc.kth.se

Union representative

Lars Abrahamsson, SACO
Phone: +46 8 790 7058

lars.abrahamsson@ee.kth.se

Application Deadline : 31 August 2010

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Posted on 2010-07-05 12:49:07

The announced deadline for above scholarship is expired and new applications may no longer be accepted. The notice is available for reference purpose only.

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