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H2020 CONCORDIA: One postdoc position available at University of Insubria- Varese, Italy

We are considering strongly qualified candidates for one postdoctoral at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.

Successful applicants will work on the H2020 project CONCORDIA (Cyber Security Competence for Research and Innovation).

CONCORDIA will pilot an EU Cybersecurity Competence Network to provide technological, societal and policy leadership for Europe. CONCORDIA is a four-year multi-disciplinary research and innovation project, that aims to implement a common Cybersecurity Research & Innovation Roadmap for Europe.

CONCORDIA will help Europe strengthen its security capabilities and to secure its digital society, economy and the fundamental data society’s principles for both security and privacy. CONCORDIA adopts an inclusive approach, fostering a wide alliance spanning Europe’s research, industry and public sectors, and including key professionals from a variety of fields.

Requirements: strong security and coding skills; good background in machine learning, data management, or related fields. Strong reference letters and previous research experience are considered a plus.

The duration of the contract is  1 year with the possibility of a 2-year extension. Estimated contract start is 2020.
Salary is determined based on the seniority (starting from 1400 euro net gross per month for a junior candidate).

Interested candidates can send their CV at prof. Barbara Carminati: Barbara.carminati@uninsubria.it

Marie Ph.D. Fellowship on Privacy and Trust in Decentralized Social Networks

Availability of 1 Marie-Curie Ph.D. fellowship position on: Privacy, Risk Analysis and Trust Management in DOSNs. The position is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Curie Initial Training Network  program iSocial,which focuses on the design of distributed and scalable overlay networking and distributed storage infrastructures for open online social networks and for innovative social network applications that preserve end-user privacy and information ownership. Application deadline: October, 15th 2012.  For more information click here.

“Security and Privacy Fostering Collaboration” panel, CollaborateCom Conference Orlando

Join us at the panel  “Security and Privacy Fostering Collaboration” in CollaborateCom 2011 conference
Panel Statement:

Collective intelligence, social relationships and collaboration among users create valuable knowledge that can be leveraged to foster decision-making and resource management processes. We are all witnesses of the successful usage of this knowledge in several different areas (collaborative filtering and recommendation systems are just two notable examples). This paradigm-shifting approach raises new interesting research issues and opportunities in the security field. The panel will explore and discuss these issues with an aim of investigating on the one hand how collaborative intelligence can be of support to security mechanisms, and on the other hand, how security mechanisms can ensure the knowledge/information management in the collaborative environment.

Moderator: Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy

Panelists:

  • Konstantinos Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • Anna Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University, USA
  • John Zic, CSIRO ICT Centre, University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, Australia