The Parallel Computing Systems (PCS) group at the Informatics Institute (IvI) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is looking for a researcher (PhD candidate or postdoctoral researcher) in the area of specifying and designing adaptive Cyber Physical Systems that are robust against both component failures and cyber-attacks. The PCS group performs research on the design, programming and run-time management of multi-core and multi-processor computer systems. The modeling, analysis and optimization of the extra-functional aspects of these systems, such as performance, power/energy consumption but also the degree of productivity to design and program these systems, play a pivotal role in our work.

What are you going to do?

Due to increasing performance demands mission- and safety-critical Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) exhibit a rapidly growing complexity, manifested by an increasing number of (distributed) computational cores and application components connected via complex networks. However, with the growing complexity and interconnectivity chances of hardware failures as well as disruptions due to cyber-attacks quickly increase as well. System adaptivity, foremost in terms of dynamically remapping of application components to processing cores, represents a promising technique to fuse fault- and intrusion tolerance with the increasing performance requirements of these mission- and safety-critical CPS. In the EU-funded Horizon-2020 ADMORPH project, we aim to validate this hypothesis using a novel, holistic approach to the specification, design, analysis and runtime deployment of adaptive, i.e., dynamically morphing, mission- and safety-critical CPS that are robust against both component failures and cyber-attacks. ADMORPH brings together a consortium of 4 academic and 4 industrial partners from across Europe led by the University of Amsterdam.

This research position will address the study and development of novel simulation-based techniques to analyze and evaluate adaptively morphing CPS as well as efficient design-space exploration (DSE) techniques for adaptive systems that allow for determining an appropriate system configuration, comprising both the hardware configuration and the adaptivity strategy to ensure the desired system robustness.

The position can be offered to a PhD candidate or a post-doctoral researcher depending on prior qualification and experience.

• MSc (for a PhD candidate) or PhD (for a postdoctoral researcher) in computer science or computer engineering;
• prior expertise in computer system modeling and simulation, and preferably also in system optimization and machine learning;
• fluency in oral and written English as well as good presentation skills;
• strong analytical and programming skills;
• ability to work in an international research team.esentation skills.

Fixed-term contract: 48 and 36 months.

Our offer

This position can be filled by a PhD student or a postdoctoral researcher. Depending on skills and experience the tasks of this position can be adjusted.

Offer PhD candidate

For a PhD candidate we offer a temporary contract for 38 hours per week, preferably starting at January 2020, for the duration of 48 months. The initial employment is 18 months and after a positive evaluation, the appointment will be extended further with 30 months and should lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis). You will get a customized Training and Supervision Plan, that will be evaluated every year.
The salary will be €2,325 in the first year, up to €2, 972 in the fourth year, scale P. The salary is exclusive 8 % holiday allowance and 8.3 % end-of-year bonus. A favorable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable.

Offer Postdoctoral researcher

For a Postdoctoral researcher we offer a temporary contract for 38 hours per week, preferably starting at January 2020 for the duration of 36 months.      

The salary, depending on relevant experience before the beginning of the employment contract, will be €2,709 to €4,274 (scale 10) gross per month, based on fulltime (38 hours a week), exclusive 8 % holiday allowance and 8.3 end-of-year bonus. A favorable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable.

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Are you curious about our extensive package of secondary employment benefits? Then find out more about working at the Faculty of Science.

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

Faculty of Science – Informatics Institute

The Faculty of Science has a student body of around 6,500, as well as 1,600 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.

The mission of the Informatics Institute is to perform curiosity-driven and use-inspired fundamental research in Computer Science. Our research involves complex information systems at large, with a focus on collaborative, data driven, computational and intelligent systems, all with a strong interactive component.

We prefer to select specific topics and pursue them from methods in informatics and engineering, rather than make a choice for fundamental versus engineering science. As part of our research mission, we maintain strategic multi-disciplinary research links inside and outside the University of Amsterdam.