The University of Luxembourg seeks to hire an outstanding doctoral researcher at its Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (http://wwwen.uni.lu/snt [1]) (SnT).



The successful candidate will participate in the activities of the SaToSS (http://satoss.uni.lu [2]) research group led by Prof. Dr. Sjouke Mauw. The SaToSS group is working on formalizing and applying formal reasoning to real-world security problems and trust issues. The research topics of the group include: security protocols, security modeling, formal methods for security, socio-technical aspects of security, risk management, privacy, verification, etc. 



Your role

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The position is within the national project Attack-Defense Trees: Theory Meets Practice (ADT2P). ADT2P is a follow-up project of a recently finalized project Attack Trees (http://satoss.uni.lu/projects/atrees/ [3]). The main tasks of

The Ph.D. student will be to

- Develop techniques for efficient representation of large-scale

 security models,

- Introduce algorithms for quantitative analysis of such models,

- Integrate the developed techniques with existing risk assessment

  methods and tools,

- Implement the obtained results in a computer tool,

- Conduct case studies together with the project partners from

 industry,

- Co-supervise master students.



Your Profile

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The candidate is expected to have:

- A Master degree in computer science or mathematics,

- A proven interest in security,

- Background in formal methods,

- Excellent written and oral English skills.



  We offer

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The University offers a three year appointment (extension up to 4 years in total is possible). The University offers highly competitive salaries and is an equal opportunity employer. You will work in an exciting International environment and will have the opportunity to participate in the development of a newly created research center.



Application

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Applications should be written in English and include the following

documents:

- Cover letter indicating the research area of interest and your

  motivation,

- Curriculum Vitae (including your contact address, work experience,

  list of publications),

- A research statement addressing the topic of the position (max 1

  page),

- A short description of your Master work (max 1 page),

- Transcript of grades from all university-level courses taken,

- Contact information for 3 referees.



Applications should be submitted electronically via the on-line

recruitment portal of the University of Luxembourg at




Deadline for applications: June 22, 2014.



Contact information

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For further inquiries please contact: 

Prof. Dr. Sjouke Mauw (sjouke.mauw@uni.lu [5]) or 

Dr. Rolando Trujillo Rasua (rolando.trujillo@uni.lu [6])



For more information about this vacancy please check 




Links:

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[5] mailto:sjouke.mauw@uni.lu


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