Open call for Visiting Scholars : Labex MS2T fellowships

Université de Technologie de Compiègne - France

The Laboratory of Excellence (Labex) MS2T at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) invites applications from scholars, such as assistant or full professors who would like to spend a minimum of one month of their sabbatical at UTC.
The MS2T fellowships aim at promoting UTC collaborations with outstanding scholars. All transdisciplinary research proposals related to the field of “Technological Systems of Systems” (TSoS) are welcomed. The fellows are expected to initiate or develop collaborative, interdisciplinary research with UTC faculty associated to the MS2T project.
The fellows should be present full-time at UTC for at least 1 month and give a research seminar or public lecture. The typical visiting period ranges from one to three months, though longer visits may be arranged. The available positions are assigned through a competitive selection procedure. Preferential treatment is given to candidates who have never held a visiting position at UTC in the past.

Qualifications
Candidates should have held the Ph.D. or equivalent professional degree, with strong record of research publications. They typically hold faculty appointments at other institutions.

Salary
The award comprises a one-off payment (travel grant) plus a gross salary that will be based on qualifications and experience. The salary is provided for a stay of up to three months and it is subject to negotiation for longer periods. Besides, the fellows will be provided with a fully equipped office and secretarial support.

Timeline
The call is open for visits starting now until the end of 2013.

Application Procedure
The applicant should send to Laurie.Herlin@utc.fr :

• a short research proposal (approx. 1-2 pages for 1-3 months visits, longer otherwise) specifying the proposed duration and starting date of visit,

• a CV with full publication list.

About Labex MS2T

The national initiative "Laboratories of Excellence" (LabEx) aims to select internationally renowned laboratories of excellence and to provide them with the means that enable them to keep pace with their foreign counterparts and to attract top level foreign researchers. It should help them build a high-level integrated higher education, training and technology transfer policy.
The MS2T LABEX (Laboratory of Excellence) fosters research dedicated to the control of technological Systems of Systems (SoS), in transport and mobility, security, and e-Health.
MS2T is a transdisciplinary research project, with three broad research topics :

1. Interaction and cooperation among systems

• Management of information flows in networks
• Distributed information processing
• The autonomy of interacting systems

2. Management of uncertainties

• Modeling of uncertainties
• Robustness in the face of uncertainties and integrity
• Uncertainty in digital modeling

3. Optimized design of SoS

• Multi-level and multi-physical optimization
• Scheduling and synchronization of mobile sub-systems
• Operational safety of technological SoSs

With more than 50 faculties and 180 PhD candidates, the MS2T initiative aims at becoming a leading European institute in these research topics driven by the control of SoS.