HPI Research School offers ten new scholarships to young scientists

Potsdam (ots) - Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) has announced that
it will be offering scholarships to ten new researchers at its
international Research School. Beginning in the upcoming winter
semester, the young researchers will be joining the current 25-member
team at the Potsdam Research School. Qualified candidates, who are
planning a PhD or who already hold one, may submit their application
until August 15th to the HPI Research School
(www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/research_school)

The HPI Research School, with its branches at the University of
Cape Town, South Africa (eight researchers), the Technion in Haifa,
Israel (fourteen researchers), and the University of Nanjing, China
(nine researchers), is dedicated to the field of "Service-Oriented
Systems Engineering." The scholarship holders investigate this
comprehensive topic area from the perspective of their individual
disciplinary backgrounds. Based on the HPI model, introduced in 2005,
the junior researchers are mentored by all professors rather than
only by one.

"This enables each of our PhD students to get to know the problem
areas, conceptual models, and approaches of the other disciplines,"
explained HPI Director Prof. Christoph Meinel, pointing out one of
the fundamental advantages. This further helps support content-based
communication and fruitful collaboration with other researchers and
experts.

The research field "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" focuses
on - to put it simply - loosely interlinked service programs that
exchange data in a standardized way. They are gradually replacing the
previously used, closely interconnected, software applications and
processes. "In the event of change, a flexible reconfiguration can be
carried out and the necessity of essential, expensive reprogramming
prevented," said Prof. Andreas Polze, coordinator of the Research
School.

PhD students at the HPI Research School work on research
questions, for example those pertaining to architectures, modeling,
and the security engineering of service-oriented systems.
Furthermore, they also deal with fundamentals such as the
self-adaptive management of services at the OS level or questions
involving the use of services in the fields of adaptive process
management, service composition, and process design. The areas of 3D
computer graphics, geoinformatics, and human-computer interaction
offer a wide range of interesting applications for service-oriented
systems and are part of the scope of research at the HPI Research
School.

Applications must be submitted by August 15th of the respective
calendar year. Positions are usually available at the beginning of
October. Please send applications to the following e-mail address:
research-school-application@hpi.uni-potsdam.de

On 20th and 21st of June 2013 the international scientists of the
four locations of the HPI Research School at Cape Town, Haifa, and
Nanjing are meeting for their annual scientific symposium. Please
find all information on the HPI website: http://ots.de/JMF8W

Pressekontakt:
presse@hpi.uni-potsdam.de,
Spokesman: Hans-Joachim Allgaier, M.A.; Mail:
allgaier@hpi.uni-potsdam.de, Tel.: 0331 5509-119; Public Relations
Manager: Rosina Geiger, Mail: rosina.geiger@hpi.uni-potsdam.de; Tel.:
0331 5509-175