Post-Doc Position Available for SAMOA project

Secure and Scalable Platform for Massive-scale Mobile Applications
Project #PTDC/CCI-INF/32662/2017, 2018 - 2021, FCT/MCTES

Submission deadline: 8th October

The NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA LINCS) is hiring a Post Doctoral fellow for a period of 12 months to conduct advanced research on system support for massive-scale mobile applications, in the context of project SAMOA. The project tackles three key challenges:


We are looking for candidates that can work in any of these challenges.


The successful candidate should have a strong background on the design and implementation of distributed systems, preferably with practical experience in the design of mobile systems. The candidate should have a PhD on computer science, computer engineering, or similar fields. Preference will be given to researchers that are enthusiastic on tackling complex and relevant challenges and produce high quality research.


The researcher to be hired will be working on the Computer Systems group of NOVA LINCS under the supervision of Prof. Nuno PreguiƧa and will join a young and dynamic research team. Since 2015, members of the group have published in top-tier conferences and journals, including Comm. of the ACM, PVLDB, EuroSys, Usenix ATC, Middleware, WWW, ICDCS, DSN and SRDS.


Interested candidates should send their CV, and motivation letter to Prof. Nuno PreguiƧa. Any questions regarding this position can be sent by e-mail to the same email.