MSCA-IF Global Fellowships in Brazil in ICTs

We at CPqD Foundation are very interested in hosting European fellows, acting as a Partner Organisation under the H2020 Program MSCA Global Fellowships, whose expertise takes place preferably in one or more of the following technological areas:

1. Connectivity:

   • 5G RAN Technologies (Evolving from LTE, 5G NR, Massive Machine Type Communications - mMTC, Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications - URLLC, Massive MIMO, L3 and L2 Technologies)

   • Millimeter wave electronics and antennas

   • Software-defined radio (Algorithm optimization for GPP, GPU, DSP, FPGA)

   • Coherent and Non-coherent Optical Transmission Systems

   • Data Center Interconnect

   • Optical Amplifiers

   • Digital Signal Processing

   • Fog/Edge computing in Internet of Things (IoT)

2. Artificial Intelligence

   • Speech Technologies (Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Voice Activity Detection)

   • Computer Vision (Image Processing, Object Detection and Recognition, Optical Character Recognition, Convolutional Neural Networks)

   • Biometrics (Voice and Face Recognition, Anti-spoofing)

   • Machine Learning (Deep Learning, Data Science)

3. Cybersecurity

   • IoT Security

   • Identity and Access Management (Continuous authentication, Authentication based on user and entity behavior, etc)

   • Information Privacy

   • Software Defined Security (SDS)

   • Self Assessment Security

   • Virtual Identity

   • Cognitive Security

4. Blockchain

   • Smart Contract

   • Security Applications

   • Consensus modeling

   • Private, Public and Hybrid network

   • Attack against Blockchain ecosystem

   • Blockchain - IoT

5. Optical Fiber Sensing

   • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Fiber Bragg grating sensing: sensor and interrogation development, multiparameter applications in real environment.

   • Fiber optical distributed sensing based on Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman scattering.

   • Fiber optical spectroscopy applications (oil and gas, electric system, health).

   • Power over fiber applications and developments for real applications.

6. Energy

   • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Algorithm’s Development for Li-ion batteries applied in electric/hybrid vehicles: cell balancing, State of Charge (SoC) and State of Health (SoH).

   • Algorithm’s Development for Li-ion and Lead-acid batteries applied in stationary systems with alternative energy sources: cell balancing, State of Charge (SoC) and State of Health (SoH).

   • New applications for second life Li–ion batteries.

   • Home energy systems based on electric cars/vehicles.

   • Computational analysis (steady state and transient) and modeling electrical network, including photovoltaic and wind generation and vehicle to grid (V2G).

   • Development of power electronic applied to photovoltaic, wind generation and electrical vehicles.

Web site: https://www.cpqd.com.br/en/innovation/