EU Funded Master, PhD and Academics in France

29 March 2022

This post lists the available EU funding for Master, PhD, and Academic Projects at various universities in France, as listed by our experts at Fastepo.

The European Commission (Euraxess) in France

The European Commission (Euraxess) is made up of a network of countries in Europe that provides funding to professionals and researchers who wish to work abroad in Europe for the purpose of research or practice. The European Union Funding program in France is a program that provides funding for projects and initiatives related to the European Union that are being implemented in France.

In France, the EU Funding program is a program designed to provide funding for projects and initiatives related to the European Union that are being implemented in the country. The program is open to both French citizens and non-French citizens.

Available EU Funding for Master, PhD, and Academic Projects in France

The following is a list of available EU Funding for PhDs and Academic Projects in France, along with details and deadlines.

Title: PhD scholarship in Computer Science in Paris: Model Checking for Malware (Virus) Detection (EU Funded France)

ORGANISATION NAME: LIPN – University Sorbonne Paris Nord

ORGANISATION COUNTRY: France

FUNDING TYPE: Funding

DEADLINE DATE: 31.12.2025

RESEARCH FIELD: Formal sciences

CAREER STAGE: First Stage Researcher (R1) (Up to the point of PhD)

Description

Model Checking for Malware (Virus) Detection:

The number of malwares that produced incidents in 2010 is more than 1.5 billion. A malware may bring serious damage, e.g., the worm MyDoom slowed down global internet access by ten percent in 2004. Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was infected with malware. Thus, it is crucial to have efficient up-to-date virus detectors. Existing antivirus systems use various detection techniques to identify viruses such as (1) code emulation where the virus is executed in a virtual environnement to get detected; or (2) signature detection, where a signature is a pattern of program code that charaterizes the virus. A file is declared as a virus if it contains a sequence of binary code instructions that matches one of the known signatures. Each virus variant has its corresponding signature. These techniques have some limitations. Indeed, emulation based techniques can only check the program’s behavior in a limited time interval. They cannot check what happens after the timeout. Thus, they might miss the viral behavior if it occurs after this time interval. As for signature based systems, it is very easy to virus developers to get around them. It suffices to apply obfuscation techniques to change the structure of the code while keeping the same functionality, so that the new version does not match the known signatures. Obfuscation techniques can consist in inserting dead code, substituting instructions by equivalent ones, etc. Virus writers update their viruses frequently to make them undetectable by these antivirus systems.

To sidestep these limitations, instead of executing the program or making a syntactic check over it, virus detectors need to use analysis techniques that check the behavior (not the syntax) of the program in a static way, i.e. without executing it. Towards this aim, we propose to use model-checking for virus detection.

Model-checking is a mathematical formalism that can check whether a system satisfies a given property. It consists in representing the system using a mathematical model M, the property using a formula F in a given logic, and then checking wether the model M satisfies the formula F. Model-checking has already been applied for malware detection. However, the existing works have some limitations.

Indeed, the specification languages they use have only been applied to specify and detect a particular set of malicious behaviors. They cannot be used to detect all viruses behaviors. Thus, one of the main challenges in malware detection is to come up with specification formalisms and detection techniques that are able to specify and detect a larger set of viruses.

The purpose of this thesis is thus to:

1- Define expressive logics that can be used to compactly express malicious behaviors. Our goal is to be able to – express a large set of malicious behaviors that were not considered previously.

2- Define efficient model-checking algorithms for these logics.

3- Reduce the malware detection problem to the model-checking problem of these logics.

4- Implement these techniques in a tool for malware detection and apply this tool to detect several malwares.

The ultimate goal is to build a malware detector that is more precise than the existing commercial well-known anti-viruses.

What is funded:

A PhD in computer science

Duration:

3 years

Eligibility:

A student with a master diploma in computer science.

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Title: PhD program (EU Funded France)

ORGANISATION NAME: IFP Energies nouvelles (former Institut Français du Pétrole – IFP)

ORGANISATION COUNTRY: France

FUNDING TYPE: Funding

DEADLINE DATE: PhD positions remain open until filled

RESEARCH FIELD: Natural sciences and Professions and applied sciences

CAREER STAGE: First Stage Researcher (R1) (Up to the point of PhD)

Description

IFP Energies nouvelles, a French public research and innovation organisation, offers PhD positions in a wide range of scientific disciplines (chemistry, biotechnology, applied mathematics, economics, earth sciences, engineering sciences, new energy technologies, …).

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Title: PhD Program Engineering and Systems Sciences (EU Funded France)

ORGANISATION NAME: Université Paris-Saclay

ORGANISATION COUNTRY: France

FUNDING TYPE: Funding, Mobility Incoming

DEADLINE DATE: End of April, beginning of May, Mid-May

RESEARCH FIELD: Formal sciences, Professions and applied sciences

CAREER STAGE: First Stage Researcher (R1) (Up to the point of PhD)

Description

The program’s ambition is to :

– Develop doctoral training at the highest level, based on a continuum between fundamental research and applications within a formidable ecosystem associating academic laboratories, engineering schools, and industrial groups.

– Thanks to a permanent exchange between modeling, experimentation, numerical simulation, design, and optimization, the training contributes to creating new knowledge responding to society’s challenges, particularly in the areas of energy, environment, transport, biotechnology, imaging, industry 4.0, information, and nanotechnology.

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Title: PhD Program in Earth, Climate, Environment and Planetery Sciences (EU Funded France)

ORGANISATION NAME: Université Paris-Saclay

ORGANISATION COUNTRY: France

FUNDING TYPE: Funding, Mobility Incoming

DEADLINE DATE: End of April, Mid-May

RESEARCH FIELD: Formal sciences and Natural sciences

CAREER STAGE: First Stage Researcher (R1) (Up to the point of PhD)

Description

This program provide students a cutting edge training through research projects concerning the superficial envelops (hydrosphere, atmosphere) of the Earth and the other planets and their interactions with the subsurface in a context of strong societal challenges (climate change, pollution, natural resources…) using multiple approaches from field work to space missions and numerical modelling.

Prerequisite

The program is open to students of the Earth Sciences, Planets, Environment major at Paris-Saclay, but also to graduates of other masters programs at the University of Paris-Saclay, in France and abroad.

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Title: 15 phd positions in Quantum Science in an Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network (EU Funded France)

ORGANISATION NAME: University of Strasbourg

ORGANISATION COUNTRY: France

FUNDING TYPE: Funding, Mobility Incoming

RESEARCH FIELD: Natural sciences

CAREER STAGE: First Stage Researcher (R1) (Up to the point of PhD)

Description

In this project, chemistry, solid state- and quantum optical physics, materials sciences as well as classical and quantum computer science are brought together to develop new and powerful technologies, with applications ranging from chemistry to the the pharmaceutical industry. The project offers both, positions in industry and in academia.

We fund 15 Phd positions in high-level research institutions all over Europe (FR, IT, SL, DE, HR, CH, NL).  

The positions are for 36 months. 

Researchers must not yet hold a PhD and have less than 4 yours of full-time equivalent research experience after obtaining the degree which allows them to embark on a doctorate. Researchers can have any nationality but cannot have been for more than 12 months in the previous 3 years (counted back from the recruitment date) in the country of their future host institution (holidays or short term stays excluded). 

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Title: CIFRE Fellowships (EU Funded France)

ORGANISATION NAME: ANRT

ORGANISATION COUNTRY: France

RESEARCH FIELD: Professions and applied sciences

CAREER STAGE: First Stage Researcher (R1) (Up to the point of PhD)

Description:

CIFRE Fellowships are made available by the National Association for Technical Research (ANRT) for the Ministry which is responsible for research. The Fellowships allow companies to take advantage of annual subsidies (indicated on the ANRT site) in exchange for employing the young doctoral student for 3 years. The objective is to privilege public/private research partnerships and place doctoral students in real working conditions.

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Title: Projects for science (EU Funded France)

ORGANISATION NAME: ANR

ORGANISATION COUNTRY: France

RESEARCH FIELD: Formal sciences, Humanities, Natural sciences, Professions and applied sciences and Social sciences

CAREER STAGE: First Stage Researcher (R1) (Up to the point of PhD)Recognised Researcher (R2) (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent)Established Researcher (R3) (Researchers who have developed a level of independence)Leading Researcher (R4) (Researchers leading their research area or field)

Description:

ANR provides funding for project-based research in all fields of science – for both basic and applied research – to public research organisations and universities, as well as to private companies (including SMEs). ANR provides the scientific community with instruments and programmes promoting creativity and openness, and stimulate new ideas and partnerships, particularly between academia and industry. Its activity also contributes to enhancing the competitiveness and the influence of French research in Europe and across the world.

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