Qualifications and experience of supervisors

We distinguish into supervisors from the degree awarding beneficiaries, and mentors from partners. All scientists involved have supervised Ph.D. students in their respective research areas, the majority having over 10 years of experience. Collectively they have in depth expertise in all areas of the project.  The twenty two experts who will closely guide the ESRs are: C. Alexandrou, G. K. Christophides, G. Koutsou (CyI); A. Frommer, M. Guenther, Th. Lippert (BUW); P. Carloni, G. Rossetti, M. Behr, J. B. Schulz (RWTH); C. Alexandrou, H. Panagopoulos (UCY); R. Trepiccione, F. Schifano (UNIFE); L. Biferale, M. Sbragaglia, R. Benzi, R. Frezzotti, N. Tantalo (UTOV); C. Tischendorf, I. Solokov (HUB); R.Nechushtai, I. Segev (HU). They will coordinate with the following nine mentors during secondments: K. Jansen, S. Schaefer (DESY); D. Pleiter (FZJ); S. Georgiou (CING); C. Bekas, C. Malossi (IBM); M. Wagner, J. Kraus (NVIDIA); W. Schoenmaker (MAGWEL). Each of the above supervisor and mentor has a team of researchers who will be helping with the supervision.

Proposed joint supervision arrangements

All fellows will be assigned to three degree awarding institutions, designated “Institution-A” and “Institutions-B”, as listed in the table below, with three supervisors, one from each, jointly guiding the ESR with the topics and roles as agreed in the joint degree institutional agreement. The institutions A and B and the secondments are chosen to provide complementary expertise on the one hand and on the other to enable effective joint supervision. The students will normally, but not necessarily, follow a standard pattern where they commence their studies in Institution-A, which is also the recruiting institution, then go to Institutions-B. It is envisaged that the students evenly split their time among at the three degree awarding institutions with a degree of flexibility aligned with the supervision needs of the each ESR. The three supervisors will be part of the Supervision Committee (SC) that will produce and monitor the CDP of the ESR. The CDP will define the specific training goals and research milestones. The three-year schedule of the fellow will be continuously monitored by the SC streamlining secondment locations so that the fellows minimize travel. This has been successfully implemented in HPC-LEAP where four locations were foreseen. Meetings with a given supervisor will be frequent (typically weekly) and independent from geographic locations (use of VoIP). Regular meetings of the SC with the fellows will take place to coordinate the research.

Proposed interaction between the participating organizations

Each ESR project involves three degree awarding institutions and one to two months of secondments. A very close coordination is foreseen among the supervisors who have already agreed on the details of the research projects. In addition, the secondments are arranged to match as much as possible the geographical location of the ESR’s degree awarding institutions so as to keep travel manageable.