Opportunities
The SoNet group is always open for post-docs, doctorates, theses, stages and internerships.
Call for PHD positions at University of Trento with scholarship funded by FBK
and research activity to be performed in the SoNet group
There are calls for PhD positions at ICT International Doctoral School of the University of Trento. Many scholarships are funded by FBK and it is possible to perform research activity in the SoNet group.
See http://ict.unitn.it/edu/ict/home.xml (next call will be around March 2010 but please verify deadlines in the official site!).
If you are interested, send us an email specifying your research interests, what you have accomplished in your University time and including your CV. Thanks!
Write to sonet AT fbk.eu
Opportunities for Post-doc and Researchers
Info and how to apply at http://www.uniricerca.provincia.tn.it/in_evidenza/pagina37.html
- incoming: funding of individual research projects, both “post-doc” and “team”, promoted by Italian and foreign researchers who will carry out the research activity inside Trento province;
- re-integration: funding of individual research projects, both “post-doc” and “team”, promoted by researchers who have been carrying out research activity in a foreign country for at least three years and aimed at their possible definitive return to Trentino.
What is SoNet is a research group inside FBK (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) research institute. FBK is located in Trento, north-east of Italy, and counts more than 350 researchers in a variety of areas, such as Information Technologies, Materials and Microsystems, and Humanities. SoNet's research focus is Social Networking and its impacts: more info at http://sonet.fbk.eu
Trentino is the right place in Italy for research. It hosts a large number of research labs from environmental studies to high-tech technologies. The Province of Trento allocates several resources such as infrastructure, real estate and funds to encourage research and innovation. Many institutes, both public and private, local, national and international have established their research units in Trento and Rovereto. Trentino is located in north-east Italy in a charming area of mountains and lakes.
Opportunities for University students (stage and thesis)
We can offer to students a friendly enviroment to challenge themselves with research topics and to learn new skills.
We have thesis and stages available in the following areas but, please, if you have another idea you would like to work on, contact us!
- Network visualization, especially dynamic visualization in time
- Empirical studies on social networks, such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter
- Social networks with an impact on real life of people, in particular in the context of carpooling (people offering ride share on their cars to each other) and collective acts and socialization (people performing acts together in real life)
- Work on software project such as Web tools a la Taolin or packagesfor network analysis such as igraph (bot in C and in Python)
© 2008 Fondazione Bruno Kessler