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2nd Phase - Beatriz Galindo Grants - Ref. BEAGAL18_00216

Code of the competition PI19023

Modality of the grant

'Beatriz Galindo' Senior grant

Principal Researcher

Dr. Josep Domingo

Departament

Departament de Computer Engineering and Mathematics

Job description

Knowledge Area: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Category: 'Investigador distinguido' (article 23 of the Law 14/2011, 1st June, on Science, Technology and Innovation).

Research Project: Cyber Threat Intelligence for Resilient Systems.

Description of the tasks to be executed:

  • Research

The proposed research will tackle the following challenges:

(1) Design of novel approaches to protect architectures that enable seamless integration of control, communication, and computation, compounded by uncertainty and unreliable environments affected by malfunctions and intentional (human-level) attacks;

(2) Foundational science for seamless protection and resilience of complex technologies that are embedded in autonomous cyber-physical systems, satisfying critical constraints such as safety, security, privacy and performance.

The approach will consist of the following tasks:

(A) Provide microscopic and macroscopic insights into the Internet's behaviour, usage, and evolution with special emphasis on its security aspects;

(B) Foster a collaborative environment in which empirical data and threat intelligence can be acquired, generated, analysed, and appropriately shared to enable impactful cyber security research and development;

(C) Validate and advance the field of data science as it applies to cyber security and Internet measurements.

  • Teaching

The candidate will teach in the current Master's Degree in Computer Security Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (MESIIA).

Furthermore, the candidate will assist in evolving the above master into a Master dealing focused on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Resilient Systems.

Characteristics of the contract

Research staff ('Investigador Distinguido')

Specific works or service contract linked to the execution of a specific technical or research project.

Duration of the contract: 4 years

Full/Part Time: Full Time of 37,5h per week

Gross salary: 68.581,60 euros per year

Candidate requirements

General requirements

  1. Be 18 years old or over and will not have reached retirement age.
  2. Not have been dismissed from the service of any of the public administrations through disciplinary action, or be unable to carry out public service.
  3. Not be disqualified from entering the public service through incompatibility, as defined by Law 53/1984, 26 December, regarding staff incompatibilities in the public administrations.

Specific requirements

  1. Possess a doctoral degree or equivalent.
  2. Professional experience abroad of minimum 7 years. The calculation of years will be made from the date the PhD degree has been obtained.
  3. The candidate should have enough seniority to hold a professorship in Computer Security. To give an idea, he or she ought to meet by far the requirements to qualify as an IEEE Senior Member and be close to the usual merits of an IEEE Fellow.
  4. He/she ought to have led international projects (e.g. European projects) as a PI, and to have advised several PhD theses.
  5. He/she ought to stand fair chances of submitting a successful ERC proposal, at the Consolidator (7-14 career years since PhD) or Advanced (14+ career years since PhD) level.

The candidates must satisfy these requirements at the latest by the last day of the period for presenting applications, May 24, 2019.

Objectives and expected results

The candidate ought to be a research leader and engage in graduate student supervision and conference organization. He/she is expected to obtain at least one H2020/European project during his 4 years in the Beatriz Galindo Program.

Furthermore, he is expected to apply to the ERC grants.

Follow-up actions

Performance monitoring will be based on:

- No. of successful competitive funding proposals

- No. of publications

- No. of publications coauthored with group members

- No. of organized conferences

- No. of supervised graduate students

Presentation of applications

Those interested must submit the corresponding application electronically using the following Application Form.

The application form must be filled in English and it must include a copy of the original documents as well as their translation into English.

When the original document is in Spanish or in any other co-official languages in Spain, it is not necessary that the translations into English are signed by a sworn translator. However, any document whose original language does not include any of the official /co-official languages in Spain will need to be translated into English using the services of a sworn translator.

It will not be necessary to translate those documents whose original is written in English.

Applicants who apply for more than one place must state their order of preference. If they do not, it will be understood that their preference is for the first place that they applied for.

Teaching and/or research staff who have already been awarded a similar grant cannot apply for the place or places awarded at the University.

Deadline for submission of applications

According to the article 15 of Order ECD/365/2018, of 23 March, the deadline for submission of applications will be extended from April 24, 2019 from 8h to May 24, 2019 until 17h (official time in Spain).

Documents to add
  • DNI / NIE / Passport currently in force.
  • PhD degree and degrees accredited.
  • Curriculum vitae detailing the candidate's research and professional history, accompanied by the necessary accrediting documentation, where should appear the list of predoctoral and postdoctoral stays made and the current or recent link with foreign universities or research centers.
  • Teaching and/or research project.
  • Research project and transfer of knowledge of the professor and / or researcher.
  • A report of the return for the University of the teaching project and of the research project and transfer of knowledge.

All documentation must be presented with the application form in the manner indicated above and within the period established.

Under no circumstances will any qualification or merit that has not been accredited in the manner stipulated in these conditions be taken into account.

Admission of candidates

Once the deadline for presenting applications has expired, provisional list of candidates who have been admitted and excluded will be published on the URV's Beatriz Galindo website, if necessary specifying the reason for exclusion.

Within 10 working days from the day after the publication, applicants can amend their application or, if appropriate, present their arguments to the Vice-Rector for Personnel.

If candidates do not amend the defects that have led to their being excluded within the specified period, they will no longer be considered to have applied and their exclusion will be definitive.

Once the deadline described in the point above has expired, the definitive list of candidates who have been excluded and admitted will be published at the same address as the provisional list.

Selection procedure

According to article 18 of the Order ECD/365/2018, of 23 March, which approved the regulations governing the awarding of the Beatriz Galindo grants, the General Secretary for Universities will appoint an international panel of experts to evaluate the applications made by teachers/researchers.

The applications will be evaluated in a single phase. Applications will be given a score of between 0 and 10 points by the international panel of experts. The panel will use the following criteria and the applicant's CV to evaluate the documentation presented: 

a) Teaching project of the teacher and/or researcher, up to 2.5 points

1. Quality of the teaching project, up to 1.25 points.

2. Programming of the teaching project, up to 1.25 points.

b) Research project, up to 2.5 points. 

1. Quality of the research project, up to 1.25 points.

2. Programming of the research project, up to 1.25 points.

c) Knowledge transfer project, up to 2.5 points.

1. Quality of the knowledge transfer project, up to 1.25 points.

2. Programming of the knowledge transfer project, up to 1.25 points.

d) Return on the teaching project, the research project and the knowledge transfer project for the University, up to 2.5 points.

1. Return on the teaching project, up to 1.25 points.

2. Return on the research project, up to 0.75 points.

3. Return on the knowledge transfer project, up to 0.5 points.

In application of article 25.1 of the Order ECD/365/2018, of 23 March, teachers and/or researchers need to obtain a minimum score of 6 points in order to be selected. Applicants with scores lower than this will not be accepted. In addition, the individual score of each of the elements must be at least 50% of the maximum possible score in each of them.

Resolution

The rector will announce the decisions, naming a candidate for each vacancy in the order proposed by the international panel of experts until all vacancies have been filled. The position may also be declared unfilled.

Contracting

The candidates proposed will sign a work contract with the University within a maximum of 2 months of the rector's decision being published on the website.

If a candidate renounces their appointment or if the contract is unsigned, the rector will appoint the next candidate on the list in order of preference.

If the proposed candidate is from a non-EU country, he/she must comply with the necessary legal requisites in order to be contracted and affiliated to the social security.

Incompatibilities

According to the Order ECD/365/2018, of 23 March, contracted teachers and/or researchers cannot enter into contracts with other entities during the period of their distinguished researcher contract, unless they have the express authorisation of the University and they respect the relevant regulations on incompatibilities.

The contract will be incompatible with other public or private funding that is intended for the same purpose, with salaries of a similar nature and, in general, with any money received that has the nature of a salary if it is the case that the activities carried out for such alternative funds interfere with the obligations for which the teacher/research has been contracted by the University. 

If this is the case, teachers and/or researchers must inform the University that they receive grants, subventions, income or resources that fund the subsidised activities.

Complaints

Any interested party may lodge an administrative appeal against this competition and its conditions at the Administrative Court in Tarragona within two months, counting from the day after notification is received. An appeal for reversal can also be made to the Rector of the URV prior to the administrative appeal and within one month of the day after notification is received.

Likewise, interested parties can appeal to the rector of the URV against the actions of the committee within one month of having been informed of this decision. This appeal will be understood to have been rejected if the university administration publishes no resolution regarding the appeal within three months after it has been lodged. The opportunity to lodge an administrative appeal at the Administrative Court of Tarragona will expire six months from the day after the appeal lodged with the Rector has been rejected. If a resolution is published regarding the appeal lodged with the Rector, the interested party will have two months starting from the day after they have been notified of this to lodge an administrative appeal.

Likewise, interested parties may lodge any other appeal they deem necessary to defend their interests.

Tarragona, 23 April 2019