Applications open for CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships
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Section
Deadline Date
August 20, 2025
Donor Agency
EPFL
Grant Size
$1000 to $10,000
The CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships provides salary, research and conference funds for up to two years, enabling fellows to complete a research project at the CYD Campus under the supervision of a professor at a higher education institution in Switzerland.
This program is highly competitive, and the primary evaluation criterion is excellence, as measured by academic records and professional accomplishments. Candidates applying for a CYD fellowship are expected to have excellent grade transcripts.
Focus Areas
- Protection of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of cyber and cyber-physical systems.
- Information sharing, data fusion and crowdsourcing.
- Data science & AI methods for analysing cyber- and technology-relevant data.
- Security, privacy and digital trust technologies.
Funding Information
- Research costs: a maximum amount of CHF 3’000.- per year can be granted for research costs (only for specific equipment needed for the project, not for general IT material).
- Conference costs: a maximum amount of CHF 5’000.- per year can be granted for conference costs.
Eligible Costs
- Salary
- Social Security Contributions
- Research and Conference Costs
- Overheads
Eligible Projects
- Applicants must demonstrate that their project:
- Can significantly influence the research fields of security and data science and have significant impact on Swiss cyber-defence;
- Will bring together, in a collaborative effort, researchers from the CYD Campus and from at least one higher education institution in Switzerland.
Eligibility Criteria
- Citizens of any nationality may apply for the CYD Postdoctoral fellowships.
- No age restrictions apply.
- Applicants must have the endorsement of a professor employed at a Swiss higher education institution willing to supervise them when they submit their Stage 2 application.
- Applicants are only eligible to apply if they will conduct their postdoctoral research funded by a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship in a different laboratory from the one of their doctoral and (if applicable) of their current postdoctoral research.
Selection Criteria
- The degree to which the project proposal fits with the topics specified in the call for proposals.
- Scientific excellence, which will be assessed in terms of:
- Originality/novelty of the research objectives and/or research plan.
- Suitability and quality of the research approach/working method.
- Competence and experience of the applicant in the field of the proposed research.
- Relevance and practical impact of the project proposal with respect to the CYD Campus.
- Feasibility of the project in terms of resources, management, and organization.
- Candidate’s profile (CV, grades, awards, etc.).
- Social and communication skills of the candidate.
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