PhD – Engineering, computer engineering – Portugal

The University of Coimbra opens a call for the assignment of a research grant, with one position(s), under the project PharmaRobot – Logistic Robot for urgent medicine distribution.

 

The call is governed by this Notice of Opening, the University of Coimbra Research Grant Regulations (RBI-UC), subsidiarily by the Research Grant Regulations of the Foundation for Science and Technology (RBI-FCT), by the Research Fellow Statute (EBI), by the Norms for Grant Assignment and Management within R&D Projects, by the Code of Administrative Procedure (CPA), all in their current wording, and by other applicable national and community legislation.

Duties

Objective: The aim of these activities is for the scholarship holder to develop new knowledge and skills in Artificial Intelligence, with an emphasis on the development of methodologies and techniques for Evolutionary Computing and Machine Learning.

Work plan:
Survey of the state of the art on Evolutionary Algorithms.
Survey of the state of the art on Evolutionary Algorithms for route calculation.
Implementation of an evolutionary algorithm;
Experimentation with the developed prototype and analysis of results comparing with state-of-the-art approaches

Qualification and requirements

Masters’ degree in Informatics Engineering, Data Science and Engineering in a Ph.D. program in Informatics Engineering.

Benefits

Monthly grant amount (paid by bank transfer at the end of each month): 1.309,64€.

Organization/Company – Universidade de Coimbra.

Research field – Engineering » Computer engineering.

Research profile – First Stage Researcher (R1).

Country –Portugal.

 Application Deadline – 28 Jul 2025 – 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon).

More information: Euraxess.