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The University of Agder invites applications for one full-time, fixed-term appointment as PhD Research Fellow in Information and Communication Technology for a period of three years. This PhD student will be mainly based at UNIK-University Graduate Center, but will be employed at University of Agder, where she/he will follow the PhD programme. As a consequence, the PhD student will be jointly advised by two professors and the associated research Labs at each university, namely, Prof. Torleiv Maseng (UNIK-University Graduate Center) and Prof. Baltasar Beferull-Lozano. The starting date is as soon as possible or to be negotiated.

Brief information about ICT Department at University of Agder and WISENET Lab

The Department of ICT has several active research groups in Information and Communication Technology including 12 Professors, 25 Associate Professors, 10 Assistant Professors and about 15 Research Fellows on the PhD Programme in ICT. The Department of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) pursues a variety of research interests, focusing especially on the following areas: Wireless Communications and Embedded Systems, Data Analytics, Crisis management, e-Learning and e-Health. The department has successfully led a number of large research projects funded by the Research Council of Norway, the EU research programmes FP7 and H2020, as well as national and international industries. The research in the Department of ICT is carried out by different research divisions, which are further divided into research Labs. The herein announced position will be collaborating with a recently established Lab, namely, the Intelligent Signal Processing & Wireless Networks (WISENET) Lab, led by Prof. Baltasar Beferull-Lozano. Currently, the WISENET Lab is in an expansion phase, having at present five PhD students and three postdoctoral researchers working on different cutting edge research projects.

Brief information about UNIK-University Graduate Center and participating Lab/Group

UNIK - University Graduate Center, is a foundation that works with the University of Oslo (UiO) and NTNU on teaching and mentoring of students at masters- and Ph.D.-Level in association with the research institutes at Kjeller and affiliated businesses and the public sector. Professor (UiO) Torleiv Maseng is Director of Research at FFI, located with other research institutes at Kjeller.

General background to the Project

The open PhD position is offered in the general area of self-organized wireless networks enabled by direct device-to-device (D2D) simultaneous links employing novel dynamic spectrum access (DSA) features, aiming at progressing substantially over the state-of-the-art both in terms of theoretical aspects (fundamental performance analysis) and algorithm designs. The activities are mainly driven by a multi-disciplinary advanced research project on next generation wireless communications enabled by self-organized spectrum cartography (WISECART). WISECART is funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) under the research funding framework