[TYPES/announce] PhD Studentship at VU Amsterdam

[Kristina Sojakova]

Dear all,

Klaus von Gleissenthall and I are looking for a PhD student to develop 
effective and scalable tools to guard against side-channel attacks. In 
hardware, an attacker can measure certain physical quantities such as 
the time elapsed or the power consumed during a computation to recover a 
surprising amount of secret  information. Such attacks are easy to 
implement, difficult to detect, and powerful against strong encryption 
mechanisms. As part of the PhD research we will apply techniques from 
the analysis of cryptographic protocols and adapt them to the setting of 
hardware to design a novel verification framework for processors.

Your duties will be to carry out research towards writing a PhD thesis 
at the department of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in 
Amsterdam, collaborate with PhD students, postdocs and staff members 
within the department,  and perform light supervision tasks (roughly 15% 
of your time), for instance supervising Master and/or Bachelor thesis 
projects. There will be opportunities to take courses for professional 
and personal development.

We offer a salary of € 2.770,00 to € 3.539,00 gross per month in the 
fourth year for a full-time employment, a holiday leave entitlement of 
232 hours per year, 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus, 
contribution to commuting expenses, optional model for designing a 
personalized benefits package, and a solid pension scheme (ABP).

If you are interested, you can drop me a message.

Best wishes,

Kristina