Scholarship list – AIR Centre – PhD Scholarship Programme

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR
AIR CENTRE PHD SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME

Here you can apply to all the PhD Scholarships international calls (Bolsas de Investigação para Doutoramento – BD) financed by the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the Collaboration Protocol signed between FCT and the AIR Centre.

Before applying, we STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you carefully read the Public Notice of the Call for detailed information on the application, evaluation and selection process. Public Notice can be found on each scholarship page.

Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies for coastal regions: mapping and prediction derived from the intersection between Hazard, Exposure and Vulnerability

Social Vulnerability (SV) explains and describes the degree of individual and community propensity to observe losses from events with harmful consequences.
Deadline: 6/04/2023

Calls: 9th Call, Scientific areas: Health,

Marine carbonate system in the Northwest Atlantic upwelling ecosystem

The sustained ocean carbon sink uptakes ∼37% of the fossil fuel CO2 emissions, or ∼25% of the combined fossil fuel burning and emissions due to land use changes between 1850 and 2019. This uptake of CO2 is causing profound changes in seawater chemistry resulting from increased hydrogen ion concentration (decrease in pH), referred to as ocean acidification.
Deadline: 20/03/2023

Calls: 7th Call, Scientific areas: Upwelling Ecosystems,

Optimal trajectory planning and execution control for long-range Autonomous Surface Vehicles

It took only a few decades for robotic underwater, surface and air vehicles to revolutionize ocean exploration. But this is just the beginning. Vehicle heterogeneity and functional diversity will enable new concepts of operation that could have not been imagined before. These include long endurance Atlantic operations to be undertaken by Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV).
Deadline: 19/03/2023

Calls: 7th Call, Scientific areas: Marine Robotics, Upwelling Ecosystems,

Models of computation for systems of teamed maritime vehicles

It took only a few decades for robotic underwater, surface and air vehicles to revolutionize ocean exploration. But this is just the beginning. Vehicle heterogeneity and functional diversity will enable new teamed capabilities and new concepts of operation that could not have been imagined before. This work will focus on networked vehicle systems in which physical and computational processes evolve and interact over time and space.
Deadline: 19/03/2023

Calls: 7th Call, Scientific areas: Marine Robotics,

Adaptive Ocean Sampling and Mapping using Networked Marine Robots (surface and underwater vehicles)

The work envisioned will contribute to the development of strategies that will afford groups of autonomous marine robots the capability to acquire relevant ocean data at the appropriate temporal and spatial scales in a cost-effective manner. To this end, the robotic systems will leverage on prior available data (e.g. from satellites in the case of....

Calls: 7th Call, Scientific areas: Marine Robotics,

Team-based planning and execution control for multi-domain autonomous vehicles

It took only a few decades for robotic underwater, surface and air vehicles to revolutionize ocean exploration. But this is just the beginning. Vehicle heterogeneity and functional diversity will enable new teamed capabilities and new concepts of operation that could not have been imagined before. Teamed operations enable high-level specifications, interactions, and autonomy.
Deadline: 19/03/2023

Calls: 7th Call, Scientific areas: Marine Robotics,

CellFish: establishing fish cell cultures from Azorean species for sustainable food production

Cellular agriculture is defined as the production of agricultural products from cell cultures rather than from whole plants or animals.
Deadline: 15/03/2023

Calls: 6th Call, Scientific areas: Ocean Science,

Development of aquaculture technology for the Azorean limpet species: life cycle, culture systems and feeding

the candidate has the opportunity to develop all stages of the production cycle of lapa brava or mansa and can focus on several topics
Deadline: 15/03/2023

Calls: 6th Call, Scientific areas: Ocean Science,

Mid-Atlantic Ridge seascapes: Tools to understand deepsea connectivity

The Deep-sea, which comprises almost all the oceans volume (90%) is considered the largest ecosystem on earth. However is also one of the least known. Marine organisms show a strong habitat selection.
Deadline: 15/03/2023

Calls: 6th Call, Scientific areas: Natural Sciences,

Vision and predictive analytics for monitoring sustainability of exploited fishing populations

Global demand for seafood largely increased worldwide, and this high demand led to an unprecedented impact on the aquatic ecosystems, lowering ocean biomass content and the proportion of fish stocks that are within biologically sustainable levels.
Deadline: 15/03/2023

Calls: 6th Call, Scientific areas: Computer Sciences,

Automatic image annotation of underwater video imagery with artificial intelligence techniques and machine learning algorithms

The increasing need to gather large-scale data on the distribution and conservation status of deep-sea benthic species and habitats could resulted in the development of low-cost imaging tools to facilitate the access to the deep sea.
Deadline: 15/03/2023

Calls: 6th Call, Scientific areas: Computer Sciences,

Impacts of submarine volcano eruptions on the shallow ocean from satellite imagery and Machine learning

Although there are more volcanoes on the sea floor than on land, submarine eruptions are very hard to observe (only 300 eruptions are known in the past 10,000 years, relative to 8000 on land). Their impacts on the ocean are therefore hard to observe, but are known to be important: influencing ocean. geochemistry and providing important nutrients to the ocean ecosystems.
Deadline: 15/03/2023

Calls: 6th Call, Scientific areas: Ocean Science,

Distribution modelling of oceanic megafauna towards dynamic ocean management

Place-based management is a common strategy for managing ocean activities and safeguarding vulnerable species and their habitats. Generally implemented as a static approach, such strategies aim to separate apparently incompatible activities from vulnerable marine species.
Deadline: 15/03/2023

Calls: 6th Call, Scientific areas: Natural Sciences,

Tracing value chains and using fisher’s knowledge to understand the status of commercial fisheries stocks in the Azores

Developing collaborative fisheries research is one way that small-scale fisheries such as the Azores might advance toward more successful management by incorporating stakeholder and scientific information into more holistic assessment procedures.
Deadline: 15/03/2023

Calls: 6th Call, Scientific areas: Natural Sciences,

Microplastic contamination in commercial fishes from the Azores - Toxicological effects and implications for human health

The pressure of anthropogenic activities and climate change on marine ecosystems is a direct and indirect threat to the consumer of seafood. Top predators such as fish are exposed to high levels of contaminants such as heavy metals, Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and pharmaceuticals that accumulate and biomagnified along the food chain.
Deadline: 15/03/2023

Calls: 6th Call, Scientific areas: Ocean Science,

INTERNATIONAL CALL FORAIR CENTRE PHD SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR
AIR CENTRE PHD SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME