If you are thinking of a PhD or career in optical networks research or in the optical communications industry, this podcast is for you. Hear directly from early stage researchers about how to apply for an EC-funded PhD project like MENTOR. Learn about the research life, secondments, and what it's like going deeper into a subject by doing a PhD. MENTOR is a project based in different countries with researchers and academic and industrial machine learning experts tackling the optical communications challenges of tomorrow as a cutting-edge research team.  

https://mentor.astonphotonics.uk/ 

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/956713

MENTOR is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) European Industrial Doctorate and is funded by EC Horizon 2020, under MSCA Grant number 956713. Carefully-recruited researchers obtain salaried positions alongside their fully-funded PhD, studying and working with world leaders in their field.