PhD scholarships - IT University of Copenhagen

The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) invites applications for several
PhD scholarships starting in September 2009 in the following areas:

Study of digital culture, digital media, mediated interpersonal
communication and the way we use a variety of digital media in our
everyday lives for social, practical and expressive purposes. We focus
on the uses of mobile communication and online media, in both national
and international contexts, addressing the interplay of local and global
phenomena.

Game aesthetics, game ontology, games and narratives, game culture, game
play, player communities, games and human computer interfaces/game
testing, game artificial intelligence, player (cognitive and affective)
modeling, computational intelligence and games.

Computer supported cooperative work, science and technology studies,

health care IT, organizations and IT, globalization and technology,
mutual shaping of culture, organizations, people, and technologies,
through practices of design and use.

Advanced and innovative communication trends, design and development of
interactive technologies for senior citizens, methods of pragmatic
inclusive design, user modeling, design and evaluation of assistive
technology-user interface history, emerging body-centric and
perception-centric techniques for human-computer interaction based on

mobile tracking of eye-gaze, body posture, hand gestures, and everyday
object manipulation and society.

Tools, methods and processes for software development, including
programming and modeling languages, requirements, architecture,
empirical studies, and software for user interface design, pervasive
computing and decision support.

Efficient solutions to computationally hard problems, algorithms for
searching and analyzing of large amounts of data, databases and data
mining, sensor networks and data management, algorithm engineering,
experimental performance studies.

Automated reasoning, categorical logic, type theory, coordination
languages, electronic voting, logical frameworks, models for
concurrency, distributed and mobile computation, programming languages
semantics, modular program verification, programming languages, static
analysis of programming and modeling languages, workflow languages.

Applicants accepted will be employed and enrolled at the IT University
for a period of 3 or 4 years.  Appointment and salary will be in
accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the
Danish Confederation of Professional Associations.  For example, the
basic salary of a 3 year PhD student amounts to DKK 24.745,18 (ca. Euro 3,300) per month.

For more information consult the webpage:

http://www1.itu.dk/sw117103.asp