Research Studentships for Master or Integrated Master students - (BL31/2024-IST-ID)

22 Feb 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento _IST-ID

Department

DRH

Research Field

Engineering » Electrical engineering

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Portugal

Application Deadline

7 Mar 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)

Type of Contract

Not Applicable

Job Status

Not Applicable

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Applications are open for 3 Research Studentships, within the framework of project/R&D institution Neuraspace, (NEURASPACE - Contrato 00009 - IST-ID), financed by national funds through PRR (Planos de Recuperação e Resiliência, through IAPMEI -Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação

Workplan: As the exploitation of space  increases and the number of active satellites continues to grow exponentially, the risk of collisions in Earth’s orbit poses a significant threat to the sustainability of future space endeavours and the integrity of critical infrastructure. With this in mind, the Neuraspace PRR project aims at developing a platform that is capable of suggesting manoeuvres to avoid possible collisions in orbit. We are looking for highly motivated candidates for Master thesis to address the following challenges in the context of this project:

1. How to leverage state of the art machine learning methods to build data-driven Digital Twins of satellites, that is,  virtual replicas or simulations of a satellite or a group of satellites, capable of faithfully mimic the physical characteristics, behaviour, and operational parameters of the real satellites;

2. How to leverage state of the art global optimization methods to determine optimal solutions for collision avoidance manouver problem, in a time efficient and scalable to a large population of space objects.

Duration: The research fellowship(s) will have the duration of 6 months. It’s expected to begin in March 2024, and may be eventually renewed.

It is mandatory to formalize applications with the submission of the following documents: i) B1 Form – Fellowship application (https://ist-id.pt/concursos/bolsas/ ); ii) Curriculum Vitae; iii)academic degree certificate, where applicable; iv) proof of enrollment at an academic degree course (Master, Integrated Master); v) motivation letter;

Applications must be submitted to the email: [email protected]

Requirements

Research Field

Engineering » Electrical engineering

Education Level

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Admission Requirements:To be enrolled at an integrated master or a master.

Additional Information
Benefits

Monthly maintenance allowance: According to the values for Research Fellowships awarded by FCT in Portugal (https://www.fct.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Tabela-de-Valores-SMM_2023.pdf ), the amount of the monthly maintenance allowance is €930,98, being the payment method an option of the Fellow by Wire Transfer.

Eligibility criteria

Admission Requirements:To be enrolled at an integrated master or a master.

Selection process

Selection methods: The selection methods will be the following: Curriculum evaluation, with the respective weight of 100%.

Composition of the selection Jury: Prof. Rodrigo Ventura, Prof. Paulo Gil, and Prof. Pedro U. Lima.

Announcement/ notification of the results: The final evaluation results will be communicated to all applicants by email.

Deadlines and procedures of complaint and appeal . A complaint may be lodged from the final decision within 15 working days, or an appeal to the Executive Board of IST-ID within 30 working days, both counted from the respective notification

Additional comments

Legislation and Regulations: Statute of Scientific Research Fellow, approved by Law nr. 40/2004, of August 18, as worded by Decree-Law nr. 123/2019, of August 28; FCT Regulation for Research Studentships and Fellowships, available on https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/docs/RegulamentoBolsasFCT2019.pdf and https://dre.pt/application/file/a/127230968 .

Workplace: The work will be developed at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) and at the Scientific Area of Applied Mechanics and Aerospace (ACMAA) and Robotics of Instituto Superior Técnico, under the scientific supervision of Prof. Rodrigo Ventura, Prof. Paulo Gil, and João Paulo Monteiro.

Website for additional job details

https://ist-id.pt/concursos/bolsas/

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

3

Company/Institute

IST-ID

Country

Portugal

Geofield

Where to apply

E-mail

[email protected]

Contact

City

Lisbon

Website

http://ist-id.pt/

Street

Av. Rovisco Pais

Postal Code

1049-001 Lisboa

STATUS: EXPIRED