Applications are open for Cyber-Defence CYD Master Thesis Fellowship 2021. 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.

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship will provide a living allowance and research funds for six months, enabling fellows to complete a Master thesis at the CYD Campus under the supervision of a professor at a higher education institution in Switzerland.

The CYD Master Thesis applicants can select one master thesis topic out of 58 topics defined by the CYD Campus, or they may propose their own thesis topic (in which case, they must select “other” on the application platform). The full list of topics is available here.

Aim

The CYD Master Thesis Fellowships are open to researchers at the master level who are willing to engage with issues cutting across the frontiers of cyber-security and data science, with a particular emphasis on:

• Novel technologies for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of cyber and cyber-physical systems.
• Privacy-enhancing technologies.
• Data science and artificial intelligence methods for analyzing cyber- and technology-relevant data.
• Research on vulnerabilities and backdoors in digital systems.

Funding

Eligible costs include and are limited to:

• Living allowance equal to CHF 2’000.- per month for a maximum duration of 6 months.
• Research costs: a maximum amount of CHF 1’500 can be granted for research costs

Eligibility

• Citizens of any nationality may apply for the CYD Master Thesis Fellowships.
• No age restrictions apply.
• Applicants must be enrolled in a Master program at a higher education institution (university or school of applied sciences) in Switzerland and have the endorsement of a professor employed in this institution willing to supervise them.

Application Guidelines

Application online submission platform