Research agenda
The TED4LAT research program revolves around an interdisciplinary research agenda to be developed over an intertwined period of research at the Latvian institutions (RTU, ViA and LiepU) and at the international institutions (LISC @INRAE and Department of Applied Science and Technology @ POLITO, Torino, Italy). The research program involves the following disciplines:
- Physical sciences Subdiscipline: condensed matter physics Descriptor: Structure and dynamics of disordered systems: soft matter (gels, colloids, liquid crystals, etc.), liquids, glasses, defects, etc.
- Computer sciences, information science and bioinformatics Subdiscipline: Artificial intelligence,
intelligent systems, multi agent systems Descriptor: Scientific computing, simulation and modelling
tools
- Environmental engineering Subdiscipline: Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics
Descriptor: Sustainable design (for recycling, for environment, eco-design)
The TED4LAT research scheme will involve PhD students, post-docs or junior researchers from the Latvian teams participating in the TED4LAT project.
The goal of the scheme is to help these researchers to improve the quality of their research and to publish in high rank journals. With this aim, each participating researcher will be advised by an experienced researcher from LISC @ INRAE (Clermont-Ferrand, France) or from the Department of Applied Science and Technology @ POLITO (Torino, Italy) who will follow their research, give advice on methods and help writing papers. The advisor will work in close collaboration with the Latvian supervisor or team leader of the researcher.
In practice, the junior scientists organise monthly meetings with their advisor and supervisor. After each meeting, the junior scientists sends a short synthesis of the main points of the meeting to all participants and to the coordinator of the TED4LAT work package 4.
The involved researchers will also visit the laboratory of their advisor and attend researcher schools as planned in TED4LAT.
The junior researcher should inform beforehand their supervisor, their TED4LAT advisor and the TED4LAT committee of any potential involvement of other people in the TED4LAT project.
Applicants should send an email to both guillaume.deffuant@inrae.fr and
anna.carbone@polito.it, and info@ted4lat.eu before December 31st , 2024
including:
- CV (European format)
- Context of the research within the Latvian University (topic, team, project,
supervisor etc…)
- Short description of the research plan
- Motivation for application (a few lines)
Please write “TED4LAT research scheme application” as the title of your application
email.
- Interviews between selected applicants, their supervisor and potential advisors will
take place within a month from submission's date. The interview will start with a presentation from the candidate about their research topic, the context and their motivation.- Final decision will be communicated in two weeks timeframe after interview.