Applications open for CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships

This program is highly competitive, and the primary evaluation criterion is excellence, as measured by academic records and professional accomplishments. Candidates applying for a CYD fellowship are expected to have excellent grade transcripts.

Focus Areas

• Protection of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of cyber and cyber-physical systems.
• Information sharing, data fusion and crowdsourcing.
• Data science & AI methods for analysing cyber- and technology-relevant data.
• Security, privacy and digital trust technologies.

Funding Information

• Research costs: a maximum amount of CHF 3’000.- per year can be granted for research costs (only for specific equipment needed for the project, not for general IT material).
• Conference costs: a maximum amount of CHF 5’000.- per year can be granted for conference costs.

Eligible Costs

• Salary
• Social Security Contributions
• Research and Conference Costs
• Overheads

Eligible Projects

• Applicants must demonstrate that their project:
  • Can significantly influence the research fields of security and data science and have significant impact on Swiss cyber-defence;
  • Will bring together, in a collaborative effort, researchers from the CYD Campus and from at least one higher education institution in Switzerland.

Eligibility Criteria

• Citizens of any nationality may apply for the CYD Postdoctoral fellowships.
• No age restrictions apply.
• Applicants must have the endorsement of a professor employed at a Swiss higher education institution willing to supervise them when they submit their Stage 2 application.
• Applicants are only eligible to apply if they will conduct their postdoctoral research funded by a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship in a different laboratory from the one of their doctoral and (if applicable) of their current postdoctoral research.

Selection Criteria

• The degree to which the project proposal fits with the topics specified in the call for proposals.
• Scientific excellence, which will be assessed in terms of:
  • Originality/novelty of the research objectives and/or research plan.
  • Suitability and quality of the research approach/working method.
  • Competence and experience of the applicant in the field of the proposed research.
• Relevance and practical impact of the project proposal with respect to the CYD Campus.
• Feasibility of the project in terms of resources, management, and organization.
• Candidate’s profile (CV, grades, awards, etc.).
• Social and communication skills of the candidate.

For more information, visit EPFL.