Please read the eligibility and application details section.

About us

University College London is seeking to appoint one Doctoral Candidate (DC) to join the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network on “Integrated Sensing and communications for future vehicuLAr systems: a Network of Doctoral Students” (ISLANDS). The DC will be enrolled on the PhD programme at UCL’s Electronic & Electrical Department and will write their thesis on a topic related to Algorithms for multimodal data-based inference and prediction for climate science applications, supervised by Prof. Christos Masouros at UCL and co-supervised by members of the other academic/industrial teams during the secondments.

Position:

Doctoral Candidate (DC)

“Signaling and waveform design for Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) in vehicular environments”

Location:

Bloomsbury Campus, University College London, with secondments to project partners internationally

Working time:

Full-time (36.5 hours per week)

Duration:

Fixed term (3 years)

Salary:

Between £35,859 and £47,459 gross per annum at the current rate of exchange.

These figures are before employer and employee deductions, including tax, national insurance and pension contributions, subject to the pension choices of the appointee.

The level of salary is also subject to the family status of the appointee as to whether they qualify for a family allowance, as well as whether the employee will make pension contributions. Due to potential future changes in the Euro/Pound Sterling exchange rate over the period of the appointment, where amendments are required, corrective payments will be made.

Salaries are not subject to either cost-of-living adjustments or increment progression and are inclusive of £5,000 annual London Allowance.

Living, mobility, family, and research allowances:

In agreement with the MSCA Doctoral Network financial regulations

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/wp-call/2023-2024/wp-2-msca-actions_horizon-2023-2024_en.pdf (Section 1. MSCA DOCTORAL NETWORKS, page 81)

About the role

This project will consider the design of new waveforms and signalling approaches in ISAC for automotive applications. This represents a broad study across new transmitter and receiver design to enable simultaneous data transmission and target estimation. The work will span theoretical and experimental research. The DC will also realise, during a secondment and with the assistance of the staff at the secondment host, further experimental activities using the test vans available at the project, and will investigate roadway geometry-aware and 5G NR based sensing assisted V2X communications.

For further details about the role, please access the job description at the bottom of the page.

About you

Candidates should have a good Undergraduate degree and a postgraduate Master’s degree (or equivalent) in electronic or electrical engineering, mathematics, electromagnetics, or a physical sciences subject. Excellent mathematical skills and background is essential, as well as a solid background on wireless communications (antennas, propagation, stochastic geometry is a plus).

Applicants should possess excellent written and verbal communication, including presentation skills. They should have excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines.



Willingness to travel and work across Europe is required.



Understanding, or familiarity with, principles of Radar sensing systems is desirable.

Eligiblity and application details

Eligibility:

All candidates must meet the following requirements to be considered for this post:

1. Doctoral Candidates (DC) must not have a doctoral degree at the date of the recruitment by the host organisation. A postgraduate Master’s degree (or equivalent) is required at the time of recruitment to enrol in the doctoral program.
2. At the time of recruitment by the host organisation, DCs must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the three years immediately prior to the recruitment date. Compulsory national service, short stays such as holidays, and time spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention are not taken into account.

How to apply:

Applications must be submitted, to the attention of Professor Christos Masouros according to the following procedure:

1. Registration and submission of the application material to the ISLANDS recruitment website: https://www.islands-mscadoctoralnetwork.eu/jobs/. Please indicate you are applying for UCL-1, Signaling and waveform design for ISAC in vehicular environments
2. Parallel application and submission of the application material at the UCL website: Job details: MSCA Doctoral Candidate (DC) - Signalling and waveform design for Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) in vehicular environments (ucl.ac.uk)

Please note that it is essential that the candidate makes a double submission of their application by executing both the above steps 1) and 2).

Each application must include the following material:

1. A cover letter explaining the motivation for applying for the post.
2. A CV setting out the educational qualifications as well as any additional scientific achievements and publications.
3. Evidence of English proficiency – for more details please see: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/english-language-requirements
4. Copy of Bachelor’s and Master’s certificates (if available at the time of application).
5. Copy of Bachelor’s and Master’s transcripts.
6. Two letters of recommendation from researchers familiar with your academic activities, e.g. the advisor of your Master’s thesis. The referees must e-mail their recommendations directly to becca.thomas@ucl.ac.uk. 
7. A short research proposal on the project’s theme (max. 2,000 words)

Informal enquiries regarding this post can be addressed to Prof Christos Masouros at c.masouros@ucl.ac.uk. Please contact Rebecca Thomas at becca.thomas@ucl.ac.uk for enquiries about the application process.

The application deadline is 15th April 2024, 23:59.

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As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/