Project description
Training for future expertise in complex networks
In today’s societies and economies, everyday life increasingly depends on networks that support organised, efficient and reliable communication, transportation, finances and energy services. The role of these network infrastructures is constantly growing and skilled researchers who will be able to optimise the performance of those systems are urgently needed. With this in mind, the EU-funded NETCO-PD project will organise a 60-month-long interdisciplinary postdoctoral training programme for 14 talented researchers. They will gain scientific knowledge and professional skills in a complex area of networks, with the possibility of a career in or out of academia, while becoming Europe’s future leaders in the crucial area of networks.
Objective
Networks for communication, transportation, finance and energy form the backbone of modern society. Reliable and efficient network infrastructures are of enormous economic and social value, and their importance will only increase in the coming years. Highly skilled researchers familiar with networks are therefore urgently needed. They should have a deep understanding of methods to optimize network performance, to control processes running on networks, and to predict how these processes will evolve over time. NETCO-PD will train 14 such researchers at the postdoctoral level, who will gain the necessary scientific knowledge and professional skills for a successful career inside and outside academia. The duration of the program is 60 months. In the first year, two calls will be opened to appoint 14 ERs, for 24 months each. The main objectives of NETCO-PD are: • To provide Europe with 14 future research leaders in the important area of complex networks, where there is great demand for highly skilled researchers. • To bring together expertise from two disciplines, stochastics (a subarea of mathematics) and algorithmics (a subarea of computer science), and to train ERs by performing world-class research in these disciplines and at their interface. This unique interdisciplinary approach is essential for dealing with complex network problems, since the performance of network algorithms is influenced by the highly volatile nature of network processes, and vice versa. • To attract talented and creative junior researchers at the postdoctoral level, offer them attractive working conditions in 2-year contracts, as well as the best possible training and career perspective. • To extend the NETWORKS training program with activities targeted to postdoctoral researchers. This extension fills a gap in the training of young researchers at a crucial stage in their career, and cannot be acquired anywhere else in The Netherlands.
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.4. - Increasing structural impact by co-funding activities
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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MSCA-COFUND - Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)
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Call for proposal
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2311 EZ Leiden
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