CYD Doctoral Fellowships are open to researchers at doctoral level who are willing to engage with cross-cutting issues in cyber-defence, 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 analysing cyber- and technology-relevant data
• Research on vulnerabilities and backdoors in digital systems

Eligibility requirements:

• Applicants need to demonstrate that they have a good level of written and spoken English.
• Applicants must need to submit previous year degrees or certificates with a good academic result.
• CYD Master Thesis Fellowships: Students must be enrolled in a Master program at a Swiss higher education institution.
• CYD Master Thesis Fellowships: Students must be accepted into a doctoral program at a Swiss higher education institution.
• CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships: Students must decide to carry out their postdoctoral study funded in a different laboratory by a Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship from one of their doctoral studies and (if applicable) from their current postdoctoral research.