CYD Fellowships

To promote research and education in cyber-defence, the EPFL and the Cyber-Defence (CYD) Campus have jointly launched the “CYD Fellowships – A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research.”

The tenth call for applications will open on 31 May 2024 with a deadline of 15 August 2024 (17:00 CEST) for Doctoral and Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship applications. There is also an open rolling call for Master Thesis Fellowships. In addition, a CYD proof of concept Fellowship program is also now available via an open rolling call.

Read the interview of Dr. Vincent Lenders, Director of the CYD Campus, about the CYD Fellowships program here.

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A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research

Cyber-threats have been accelerating due to the exponential growth of network connectivity. These new capabilities provide myriad opportunities for security hackers to wreak significant damage for commercial, political, or other gains.

CYD Fellowships are designed to promote new solutions to major challenges in the fields of security and data science by bringing together basic and applied research in cyber-defence.

The CYD Fellowships is a talent program for cyber-defence research.  It offers Master Thesis, Doctoral, and Distinguished Postdoctoral fellowships to candidates with an outstanding academic and, if applicable, professional track record. 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.

The Master Thesis fellowships are on a rolling-call basis so Master students may apply any time. There are two calls per year for Doctoral and Distinguished Postdoctoral fellowships. The 10th call will open on 31 May 2024 and applicants may apply until 15 August 2024 (17:00 CEST). Both new applications and resubmissions are strongly encouraged.

CYD fellows are hosted by a higher education institution in Switzerland and conduct their research at the CYD Campus located on the premises of EPFL and ETHZ and in its office in Thun. The CYD Campus is a cyber-competence center acting as an anticipation platform for identifying and assessing technologies, commercial and social cyber trends, as well as the resulting usage scenarios.

CYD Master Thesis Fellowships

Living allowance and research funds for 6 months

More details here

CYD Doctoral Fellowships

Salary, research and conference funds for 4 years (with a possible one-year extension)

More details here

CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships

Salary, research and conference funds for up to 2 years

More details here

Application deadline

A rolling call for Master Thesis Fellowship applications is open. Applications may be submitted throughout the year.

The 10th call will open on 31 May 2024 and applicants for the Doctoral and Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships may apply until 15 August 2024 (17:00 CEST).

Application toolkit

Please, read carefully all documents available in the application toolkit to prepare your application.

The toolkit for Master Thesis Fellowship applications is available here.

The toolkit for Doctoral and Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship applications (9th call) is available here.

Submission platform

Access the application platform here.

The CYD Fellowships are supported by armasuisse Science and Technology

Contact

EPFL Research Office

Av. Auguste-Piccard 1

CH – 1015 Lausanne

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