PhD scholarship at UPC (Barcelona)

The GAPCOMB group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) offers a 4-year PhD scholarship, starting from 1st January 2025.

https://gapcomb.upc.edu/en

Deadline for applications: 27th October 2024

Link to apply (in Catalan, we are happy to help with the application procedure): 

https://rdi.upc.edu/ca/financament/carrera-investigadora/r1/ajuts-formacio-de-doctors-2024/ajuts-formacio-de-doctors-2024

Duration: 4 years

Salary (before taxes): 
      Year 1:     €19.479
      Year 2-4:  €24.348

Additional benefits:
Teaching opportunities with additional remuneration 
€7.000 for research stays abroad
Additional funding for conferences/workshops/doctorate schools available
Possibility of a coadvising scheme with one of the PhD advisors from outside UPC
Vibrant research group with over 20 members (seminars, reading groups, group workshops...)

The group Geometric, Algebraic and Probabilistic COMbinatorics (GAPCOMB) studies problems arising in discrete mathematics, combinatorial group theory, finite geometry and discrete random structures, and their interactions. Current projects involve several aspects of discrete structures, such as convex polytopes, finite geometries, matroids, random graphs, free groups, finite model theory, planar maps and additive combinatorics, among other topics. 

List of potential supervisors:

Simeon Ball (incidence geometries, codes, semifields, linear algebraic techniques over graphs, quantum information theory and quantum codes)
Richard Lang (extremal combinatorics, hypergraph embeddings, Hamiltonicity)
Anna de Mier (matroid theory, enumerative combinatorics)
Patrick Morris (extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, design theory)
Marc Noy (random graphs, enumerative combinatorics, analytic combinatorics, discrete geometry, logic laws)
Guillem Perarnau (probabilistic and extremal combinatorics, random combinatorial structures, stochastic processes and randomized algorithms)
Clement Requile (random discrete structures, analytic combinatorics, graph theory, parametrized complexity, combinatorial games)
Juanjo Rué (analytic combinatorics, random graphs, additive and extremal combinatorics)
Oriol Serra (additive combinatorics, graph theory, random graphs)
Lluís Vena (additive combinatorics, graph limits, graph polynomials)