====== Vacancies ======

**Up to 2 PhD scholarships at Department of Engineering Cybernetics within ”Control, Information and Communication Systems for Environmental and Safety Critical Systems”**

Up to 2 PhD scholarships within the strategic university program “Control, Information and Communication Systems for Environmental and Safety Critical Systems”, financed by the Norwegian Research Council, are vacant. The scholarships are offered for a period of 3 years. The PhD scholars will work on challenging research problems in an active research team with extensive industrial and international cooperation. The topics of the PhD research will be within the following projects:

**Information network communication and coordination for environmental surveillance**\\
Contact: [[mailto:Kristin.Y.Pettersen@itk.ntnu.no|Professor Kristin Y. Pettersen]] 

[[:cics:vacancies:project1|Project description]]

**Information, communication and control systems for subsea oil well drilling with automatic detection and handling of gas kicks**\\
Contact: [[mailto:Ole.Morten.Aamo@itk.ntnu.no|Professor Ole Morten Aamo]]

[[:cics:vacancies:project2|Project description]]

**Safety Critical Control, Information and Transportation Systems: Parametric Resonance**\\
Contacts: [[mailto:fossen@ieee.org|Professor Thor I. Fossen]] and [[mailto:Anton.Shiriaev@itk.ntnu.no|Professor Anton Shiriaev]]

[[:cics:vacancies:project3|Project description]]

**Optimization of fuel efficiency and control of diesel electric marine vessels subject to data communication constraints**\\
Contact: [[mailto:Tor.A.Johansen@itk.ntnu.no|Professor Tor Arne Johansen]]

[[:cics:vacancies:project4|Project description]]

**Control, Information and Communication Systems for internal combustion engines in marine applications**\\
Contact: [[mailto:Jan.Tommy.Gravdahl@itk.ntnu.no|Professor J. Tommy Gravdahl]]

[[:cics:vacancies:project5|Project description]]

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Applicants must have a siv.ing.- or MSc degree in control systems or similar. Solid scientific qualifications, relevant MSc research topics and personal qualities are important. Foreign applicants must document a TOEFL score of 600 or higher. Applicants must be qualified for PhD studies at NTNU, please see  http://www.ime.ntnu.no/english/research/phd for  information about PhD studies at NTNU.

The applicants are encouraged to contact the contact person of relevant topics for more information. **The applicants must specify which research topic(s) that the application is in regard to, in prioritized order.**

PhD fellows are placed in salary code 1017, salary level 45 - 61 in the national salary scheme, gross NOK 353 000 – 468 500 per annum, of which 2 % is deducted for the State Pension scheme. This includes health insurance and there is no tuition fee.

For more information, please see http://www.ime.ntnu.no/stillinger IME 017-2009

Applications should be sent to: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway, or by e-mail to [[mailto:application@ime.ntnu.no|application@ime.ntnu.no]] \\
**Deadline: April 1st  2009.\\
Applications should be marked:  IME 017-2009.**