INESC-ID has opened a call for a research grant for R&D activities performed by PhD students (reference number BI|2024/544) under the scope of the project BIG – Refª 952226. The research grant is starting in October 2024 for 12 months, renewable upon specific conditions.
The Ph.D. student scholarship position will contribute to fulfilling the project´s goals by:
- Providing a funding opportunity to Ph.D. students who are developing research in Blockchain related areas,
- Providing support to the project´s research team;
- Conducting research in the areas of blockchain security and robustness, namely by devising systematic ways to understand, compare, and improve the performance of large-scale blockchains in general and blockchain consensus protocols in particular, in scenarios that require security guarantees against deliberate adversarial behaviour from the subset of the participants.
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