Cork Institute of Technology incorporates the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork School of Music & The National Maritime College of Ireland. The Institute’s research programme includes support for research of particular relevance to Irish and European Industry.

The Institute has recently secured research funding from a number of sources including, SFI, the EPA, the Technological Sector Research Programme and Enterprise Ireland, and now invites applications from suitably qualified persons for the following Research Opportunities and Postgraduate Positions.

Opportunities for postgraduate research are offered in the following areas:

• CIT 1 True Random Number Generation using Multiscroll Chaotic Attractor Circuits for Data Block and Serial Data StreamEncryption (Electronic Engineering/Mathematical Science)
  Lead Supervisor: Dr Richard Guinee
  Email: rguinee@cit.ie
• CIT 2 MEMS Tunable Capacitor for Software Defined Radio (Electronic Engineering)
  Lead Supervisor: Martin Hill Email
  Email: mhill@cit.ie
• CIT 3 A Virtual Training Environment for Temporal Bone Surgery (Electronic Engineering)
  Lead Supervisor: Dr Joe Connell
  Email: jconnell@cit.ie
• CIT 4 Occurrence and analysis of MRSA and other antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the community and comparison with hospital MRSA data (BioMedical Science/Applied BioSciences).
  Lead Supervisor: Dr Leslie Cotter
  Email: leslie.cotter@cit.ie
• CIT 5 Wireless Sensor Network Control of Fluorescent Light using Daylight Substitution (Electronic Engineering/Computer Science)
  Lead Supervisor: Dr Fergus O’ Reilly
  Email: fergus.oreilly@cit.ie
• CIT 6 Advanced software and cryptographic algorithms for next generation minimised/limited hardware platforms (Electronic Engineering/Computer Science)
  Lead Supervisor: Dr Fergus O’ Reilly
  Email: fergus.oreilly@cit.ie
• CIT 7 Flow Management for Real-Time Applications over large scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (Electronic/Computer Engineering)
  Lead Supervisor: Dr Susan Rea
  Email: srea@cit.ie
• CIT 8 Data Management System for Large Volume Scientific Imaging (Applied Physics)
  Lead Supervisor: Dr Niall Smith
  Email: niall.smith@cit.ie
• CIT 9 Biocontrol of Mycobacteria (BioMedical Science/Applied BioSciences)
  Lead Supervisor: Dr Jim O’ Mahony
  Email: jim.omahony@cit.ie
• CIT 10 Purification and applications of cloned staphylococcal phage lysin for the control of multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus including MRSA (BioMedical Science/Applied BioSciences).
  Lead Supervisor: Dr Aidan Coffey
  Email: aidan.coffey@cit.ie
• CIT 11 Isolation and characterisation of Extracellular polysaccharide-producing Lactic Acid Bacteria with applications in functional foods. BioMedical Science/Applied BioSciences.
  Lead Supervisor: Dr Aidan Coffey
  Email: aidan.coffey@cit.ie

The following project has received funding under the National Development Plan via the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Research Technological Development and Innovation (ERTDI) Programme.

• CIT 20 A Technical, Environmental and Economic Analysis of Dredge Material Recovery and Reuse Techniques for Ireland (Relevant Engineering or Science Degree)
  Lead Supervisor: Dr. Joe Harrington
  Email: joe.harrington@cit.ie

Applicants for all of the post graduate positions should have an honours degree in the appropriate area. Successful applicants will be registered for a Masters degree by research and paid a grant to cover fees and maintenance for up to 24 months.

Click here to download the application form.

For further information contact:

Ms. Ruth Coughlan, Development Office,
Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork.
Tel: 021 4326634 Email: rcoughlan@cit.ie

The closing date for postgraduate posts is 5.00pm on Friday, 28th July 2006.

Website: Cork Institute of Technology.