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Call for Senior Researcher on Optical Communications

Athens Information Technology (AIT) Center invites applications for post-doctoral researchers to work in the “High Speed Networks and Optical Communications” (NOC) research group. Effective start date of employment can be as early as June 1st 2010.

AIT, a Greek leading Center of Excellence for Research and Education focusing in the areas of Telecommunications and Information Technology is a not-for-profit educational organization founded in 2002.

AIT has a broad range of interests, know-how and tools to support state of the art research work related with optical network infrastructures for future applications with main emphasis on telecommunications and global grid computing. Specific areas of interest include novel node architectures for circuit-, burst- and packet- switching, optical system and subsystem design, transmission management techniques including electronic channel equalization and forward error correction, 100GE, signaling and routing protocols, IP over optical networks, network resilience, optical network security, traffic engineering etc. The NOC group is currently involved in eight (8) FP7 ICT research projects related with the objectives “The Network of the Future” and “Photonics”.
In three (3) of these projects, AIT has also the role of Technical Manager of the entire consortium.

Research topics relevant to the applicants (experience in more than one topics is desirable):

(a) High-speed optical communications system testing in lab environment with recirculating loops for systems utilizing coherent detection, advanced modulation formats (i.e. OFDM, PSK, QAM) towards solutions for 1Tb Ethernet
(b) Physical layer modeling of signal performance/quality prediction in heterogeneous mixed bit-rate optical networks operating at 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s with advanced modulation formats and coherent detection
(c) Novel all-optical signal processing subsystems for applications beyond 100Gb/s with advanced modulation formats

Responsibilities for these positions include conducting research in the above fields leading to publications in top international academic journals and conferences; working in relevant EU Research projects that the group is involved; and (if agreed) providing teaching support to various graduate courses related with the expertise of the successful candidate.

Applicants must have a doctorate in the general field of Telecommunications (with knowhow on high-speed optical communications), a strong record of published research and evidence of research potential, as well as collegial spirit. Doctoral students in their last year of their studies are also welcome to apply as well.
The working language at AIT is English therefore fluency in English is a requirement. Non-Greek speaking candidates are welcome.

Compensation includes:
(a) Competitive monthly salary,
(b) travel grants to attend conferences, in addition to travel related with project requirements.

The advertised positions will give the successful candidates the opportunity to work in a well established and active group and utilize the facilities of well equipped state-of-the art environment, develop further their skills and experience offering them a prospect to significantly enhance and progress their career.

Interested candidates may send a CV, names of three references and a letter describing their research interests by May 15th, 2010, to:

Dr. Ioannis Tomkos
Athens Information Technology
19,5 Km, Markopoulo Ave., 19002, Peania, Attica
Tel: +30 210 6682773, Fax: +30 210 6682703,
e-mail: itom [ at ] ait.edu.gr

Note that the positions will be filled as soon as successful candidates are selected.



Call for Research Scientist

A Research Scientist position with focus on the “Network of the Future” and the integration of Optical Network and IT resources in a common infrastructure is immediately available in the “Network Design and Services” research group of the Athens Information Technology (AIT), Greece. The work carried out within the "Network Design and Services" group aims at significantly contributing to the design and delivery of the next generation converged network and service infrastructure supporting a wide variety of applications, in the context of which optical networks and network services play a key role. Main topics of focus include sustainable scaling, dependability and cost/resource efficiency, taking into consideration the increasing heterogeneity in technologies and devices.

The objective of this research activity is to address the key technical challenges to enable on-demand end-to-end service provisioning across multiple domains, with the aim to facilitate apart from traditional telecommunications applications a new generation of network services.

Scope of work will involve the following tasks:

• Study of suitable network architectures
• Network studies and performance evaluation
• Study of routing algorithms suitable to support integration of network and IT resources and associated control plane issues
• Energy-efficient routing and provisioning of network and IT resources
• Contribution towards the development of a simulation environment, supporting the design and evaluation of an integrated optical network/IT infrastructure that can support resource efficient on-demand end-to-end services in an optimized manner.