Open Positions
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Excellent postdoc candidates with a background in deep learning and publications at top conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NIPS and ICML can always apply.
Post-doc position in (1) Computer Vision and (2) Federated Learning and Differential Privacy
We are seeking a postdoc to join the Vision, Language and Reading team at the Computer Vision Center (CVC), in Barcelona, Spain.
The Vision, Language and Reading group is at the Computer Vision Center at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and performs research on reading systems, scene text understanding, document intelligence, captioning, visual question answering, etc.
The position is linked to the European Project: the “European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI” (ELSA), funded by Horizon Europe and backed by the ELLIS network of excellence. The project covers research topics that include robustness, privacy and human agency and will develop use cases in areas such as autonomous driving, robotics, health and document intelligence.
Candidates are expected to co-supervise PhD students.
Competitive Calls for Post-Doc Fellowships
There is a number of competitive postdoc calls in which we are happy to support excellent candidates:
~January: 2-year postdoc positions of Juan de la Cierva
~January: call for 5-year researcher position Ramon y Cajal
~January: call for 2-year researcher position Beatriu de Pinos
~August: call for 2-year postdoc Marie Curie Individual Fellowships.
Please contact us if you are interested in applying with our lab.
PhD Candidates
We are always interested in excellent PhD candidates.
There is a number of competitive pre-doc calls in which we are happy to support potential PhD candidates who want to do a PhD in our Lab:
FI Call
(Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants - AGAUR)
Usually, the call opens around September/October. PhD studentships are for 3 years and the starting date would be around May of the year after.
Minimum average grade officially required is: 6,50 for the BSc. In reality, candidates with BSc and MSc grades below 8,00 are very difficult to obtain financing.
In terms of statistics, in 2021, 1017 applications were submitted and of those 246 were granted.
We will only support applications by candidates with good chances of being accepted, and we are able to support only 1-2 students in each round. Please contact us in advance if you are interested in working with us.
FPU Call
(Spanish Ministry of Universities)
Usually, the call opens around October/November. PhD studentships are for 4 years and the starting date would be around September/October of the year after.
The minimum average grades required is 6,84 Bachelor and 7,91 Master (please double check this numbers, as they are updated every year). Nevertheless, candidates with average grade below 9,00 are difficult to obtain financing.
The call has two stages. In the first one, only the CV of candidates are considered. Those candidates selected in the first stage are allowed to submit the application in the second one. In this second stage, CV of the director and group, etc are considered.
In terms of statistics, in 2021 they offered 885 grants over all disciplines. Of these, in the field of Computer Science, 96 applications were selected and 32 granted. The top candidate selected in Computer Science had a grade of 9,688 and the last candidate (#32) had a grade of 9,010. See the 2021 statistics here.
Important: to apply to this call it is necessary to have a National Identity Number from Spain (a NIE). It is not possible to submit an application just with your passport number. If you are not Spanish, ask at your Spanish embassy about how to obtain a NIE number.
We will only support applications by candidates with good chances of being accepted, and we are able to support only 1-2 students in each round. Please contact us in advance if you are interested in working with us.
FI-SDUR Call
(Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants - AGAUR)
This call is linked to University departments, and you would be applying to the Computer Science department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Usually, the call opens around March. PhD studentships are for 3 years and the starting date would be around October/November of the same year.
The minimum average mark required is 6,50 for the BSc. Nevertheless, candidates with average grade below 9,00 are difficult to obtain financing. In terms of statistics, in 2021, 411 applications were submitted and of those 97 were granted.
We will only support applications by candidates with good chances of being accepted, and we are able to support only 1 student in each round. Please contact us in advance if you are interested in working with us.
Own-funded positions
We currently have no open positions funded directly by lab projects.