PhD Candidate in Real-Time Systems Security

About the SnT

The is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character.

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg is a leading international research and innovation centre in secure, reliable and trustworthy ICT systems and services.

We play an instrumental role in Europe by fueling innovation through research partnerships with industry, boosting R&D investments leading to economic growth, and attracting highly qualified talent. We look for researchers from diverse academic backgrounds to contribute to our projects in areas such as : Network Security, Information Assurance, Model-driven Security, Cloud Computing, Cryptography, Satellite Systems, Vehicular Networks, and ICT Services & Applications.

Your role

This position is initially funded for three years (with a probation period of six months) and may be extended up to four years following positive evaluation and commitment.

The research is linked to the SASCOS project, which is a collaboration between Edge Aerospace SARL and the CritiX group at SnT to explore safety aware space computing systems for resilient information processing. The challenges we aim to address include withstanding environmental challenges by autonomously adapting to a wide range of conditions in which faults may occur, strategies and mechanisms for keeping the system operational in the most extreme situations, while meeting the workload's performance goals, and solutions for coping with the fact that criticalities of workloads may change.

We are looking for a PhD candidate to join the team to contribute to our research agenda and to the excellence of the group and of SnT in general.

Successful candidates are expected to participate in the following activities :

• Conduct highly innovative research in the cybersecurity of space-based systems
• Develop innovative solutions to cope with changing criticalities of workloads
• Publish research results and present them at international conferences
• Contribute to reports and research activities in support of project management
• Guide M.Sc. students
• Participate in a dedicated training plan