Six PhD student positions in ITN ESSENCE (Evolution of Shared Semantics in Computational Environments), Edinburgh/Trento/Barcelona/Madrid (Scotland/Italy/Spain)

The ESSENCE (Evolution of Shared SEmaNtics in Computational Environments) Marie Curie Initial Training Network is offering six Early-Stage Researcher (pre-doctoral) positions (36 months), to start in September 2014. This is a rare opportunity to be involved in a highly prestigious European training network for outstanding applicants in an emergent and important research area, led by internationally leading groups in their fields!

ESSENCE conducts research and provides research training in various aspects of translating human capabilities for negotiating meaning to open computational environments such as the web, multi-robot systems, and sensor networks. The network will support 15 pre- and post-doctoral fellows who will work toward a set of different research projects within this overall theme, ranging from symbol grounding and ontological reasoning to game-theoretic models of communication and crowdsourcing.

The application deadline for these posts is 24th April 2014. For more information or pre-applications, see http://www.essence-network.eu/hiring. Please contact Dr Michael Rovatsos (mrovatso at inf.ed.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.