[SocBiN] Doctoral student positions in Helsinki

[Rousu Juho]

Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology (http://www.hict.fi/) has a call for 15 PhD student positions,
research fields including Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (within Life Science Informatics track).

The call has a deadline of February 14,  2014. The submission site will open January 31, 2014.


Helsinki ICT network: call for 15 doctoral student positions
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The Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and
Communications Technology (HICT) is a collaborative doctoral education
network hosted jointly by Aalto University and the University of
Helsinki, the two leading universities within this area in
Finland. The network involves at present 51 professors and over 200
doctoral students, and the participating units graduate altogether
more than 40 new doctors each year.

The activities of HICT are structured along six research area
specific tracks:
- Algorithms and machine learning
- Creative technologies
- Life science informatics
- Networks, networked systems and services
- Software and service engineering and systems
- User centered information technology

The quality of research and education in both HICT universities is
world-class, but the education is still practically free as there are
no tuition fees in the Finnish university system. Helsinki has been
ranked as the World's Most Livable City (Monocle, 2011), and is the
capital city of Finland, which is in the top 10 of the most highly
educated nations in the world (OECD, 2013), and has been selected as
the world’s best country to live in (Newsweek, 2010).

The participating units of HICT have currently 15 fully funded
positions available for exceptional doctoral students. For more
information and application instructions, see "http://www.hict.fi/".