Job Description

The PhD candidate will work within the Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) Department of the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), which is a non-profit Research Institution located in Castelldefels (Barcelona). The PhD candidate will take part of the team activities and will be included in the Ph.D. program of Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).

The PhD student research will be related to “DESTELLO” Spanish project (TEC2015-69256-R), which main objective aims at deploying a flexible, scalable and cost-efficient architectural and technological solution for interconnecting distributed data centers via optical networks along with supporting the stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements imposed by future 5G networks and services (http://www.cttc.es/project/destello-dynamic-flexible-orchestration-of-data-centers-and-programmable-elastic-optical-networks-and-systems/).

During their PhD training, the student will be strongly encouraged to publish at prestigious scientific journals and national/international conferences. Furthermore, there will be the chance to perform short term visits/stays in other Institutions/Universities in order to improve the knowledge of the PhD student on the research topic.

The position will shortly be published in the Spanish MINECO web site, where the interested candidates could apply for the 4 years grant, following the link: http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/menuitem.dbc68b34d11ccbd5d52ffeb801432ea0/?vgnextoid=62b349aaa8dc4510VgnVCM1000001d04140aRCRD

Required skills:
• MSc degree in telecommunications, electrical engineering, computer science, or related fields, and capacity of carrying out innovative research, are highly encouraged to apply for this position.
• Programming skills (e.g. Matlab/python)
• Proactive communication skills and fluency in English

More details of the group publications, ongoing research and lab facilities can be found in: http://networks.cttc.es/ons/research/

For more information about the grant, please contact Dr. Raul Muñoz and Dr. Michela Svaluto Moreolo at (raul.munoz@cttc.es and michela.svaluto@cttc.es).

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