[TYPES/announce] Two postdoc positions in Cagliari

[Massimo Bartoletti]

The Trustworthy Computational Societies research group (TCS) of the
University of Cagliari  is looking for two post-docs to join our ongoing
projects.

We seek applicants with strong interest in some of the following topics:
programming language design and implementation, concurrency theory,
program analysis and verification, and security foundations. The
successful candidates will in work in the TCS group at the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari (Italy).

The scientific core of the group is the development of formal methods
for security of concurrent and distributed systems, and the
experimentation of these methods through actual implementations. The
team is composed by both researchers in the fields of security and
concurrency theory (process algebras, semantics and types for
concurrency, linear logic) and developers. A detailed presentation of
the research group TCS can be found at the website tcs.unica.it.

Positions: 2 positions, each of 2 years and renewable for another year

Gross salary: ~23K EU / year

Requisites: applicants must hold a PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics
or related discipline, and must produce evidence of expertise on the
above-mentioned topics. The PhD degree must have been obtained not later
than 10 years before the postdoc starts.

Starting date: may 2013 (with possibility of delaying until sept. on
candidate request)

Location: Cagliari is located on the southern coast of Sardinia, the
second largest island in the Mediterranean see. The Cagliari airport is
only 15’ from the city centre, and it is connected with >70 direct
flights (many of which are low-cost Ryanair flights) to Italy and
Europe. The climate is Mediterranean, with mild winters (average temp.
16.4C) and many sunny days (~300 days/year without precipitation). The
main beach, Poetto, is only 10’ from the city centre. The Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science is hosted in the Palazzo delle Scienze,
located on top of a hill nearby the historical area of Castello.

Inquires may be made to Massimo Bartoletti, bart at unica.it.