Lero postdoctoral fellowships to foster world-class software expertise
The Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, Lero, is to invest €2.9 million in creating 16 postdoctoral fellowships. The programme will develop world-class software expertise to facilitate responsible innovation focusing on privacy, trust, inclusion, and fairness.
Lero director Prof Brian Fitzgerald of University of Limerick is coordinating the Systems, Methods, Context (SyMeCo) research training programme. It is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND programme.
While SyMeCo will be coordinated from UL, fellowships will be available at all 12 of Lero’s partner universities and institutes of technology. The programme is designed to attract outstanding international researchers from the fields of computer science, software engineering, information systems and human-computer interaction.
During their two-year fellowship, participants will receive discipline-specific skills training to assist career development and will be provided with a comprehensive set of courses to improve their transferrable skills and diversify their employment options.
“Fellowship programmes like SyMeCo are vital to the Irish research landscape attracting top researchers to the European Union, and significantly to Ireland and Limerick,” said Prof Norelee Kennedy, Vice President Research, UL. “It is testament to Lero’s research reputation, and its record in developing and delivering fellowship programmes that the centre has been awarded this funding. We look forward to hosting SyMeCo fellows here at University of Limerick and of course supporting Lero in co-ordinating such a significant project.”
“These fellowships will bring together leading researchers from across the world and when recruited, will contribute significantly to Lero’s and Ireland’s research agenda, engaging with experienced researchers and industry partners across the country,” added Prof Brian Fitzgerald. “All 16 fellows will be highly skilled future research leaders and we have no doubt that they will be much sought after by industry, the public sector and academia,” Professor Fitzgerald commented.
“The key research strands underpinning SyMeCo reinforce Lero’s own key research strands, systems – what we build; methods – how we build these systems; and context – for the world we want. The programme proposes a transformative agenda that takes account of the ever-changing software development landscape while also seeking to shape it.”
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