Summary:There is an open call for one (1) Research Scholarship (“Bolsa de Investigação”) at Instituto de Telecomunicações, in the scope of project EURO-3C.
This project has received funding from the European Comission under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement 9. Scientific Area: Wireless Technologies Group: Telecommunications and networking – Av Work Objectives: -Design and develop a centralized, distributed Attestation Service aligned with the SPIFFE/SPIRE identity framework, integrated into the Edge architecture to support workload and node identity verification across federated domains.
- Build administrative interfaces enabling operators to define and configure attestation policies and to manage the inventory of attested nodes/workloads, consistent with EURO-3C's multi-level federation and multi-tenant operational model.
-Design and deploy an evaluation scenario on EURO-3C's edge infrastructure to characterize the implementation (performance, scalability, and security guarantees) under representative Telco-Edge-Cloud conditions.
Applicable legislation: This call for applications is governed by the present notice, the Statute of the Research Fellow, approved by Law No. 40/2004 of 18 August, as currently in force (), the FCT Regulations for Research Grants (), the Research Grants Regulations of Instituto de Telecomunicações, and all other applicable national and European legislation.
Place of work: The work will be developed at the premises of Instituto de Telecomunicações at University of Aveiro, under the supervision of Prof. Diogo Nuno Pereira Gomes.
Duration:12 months, with the possibility of renewal.
This type of scholarship has a maximum duration of 2 years.
Start date: December 2026 or soon thereafter.
Required Documents:• Motivation letter explaining the interest in the position;
• Detailed Curriculum Vitae with transcripts;
• Degree certificate (if applicable);
• Proof of enrollment in a higher education course or declaration of intention to enroll in a study cycle leading to an academic degree or in a course that does not confer an academic degree.
* *NOTE: Proof of enrollment, issued by the higher education institution in a study cycle leading to the award of an academic degree or in a non-degree course, must be submitted by the time of contract signing.
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(The cover letter and the CV are mandatory documents in the online application platform)