Scholarships Positions

Study Subject(s):Bioinformatic
Course Level:PhD
Scholarship Provider: DFG
Scholarship can be taken at: Germany

Eligibility: -University degree in bioinformatics or an equivalent university degree in natural science -Excellent knowledge in statistics and programming languages (R, Perl, Java)
-Database administration and handling skills are a plus
-Excellent verbal and written English communication skills are required
-Candidates should be strongly motivated, team-oriented and should have the ability to work

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: Our group consists of an interdisciplinary team with expertise in biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics and medicine.Therefore we provide an excellent working environment, comprising many lab-specific datasets for analysis and the possibility to participate in the design of future experiments. We study the molecular mechanism underlying the cardiac developmental process and its aberration in human (congenital heart disease). A particular focus is on the process of gene transcription, its regulation and phenotypic consequence. The heart, cardiac and skeletal muscle cells represent our model systems employing animal models, patient material and cell culture.

How to Apply: by Post

Scholarship Application Deadline: until 31st of August 2011

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Study Subject(s):mechanical engineering, industrial/manufacturing engineering, computer science, software engineering or engineering design
Course Level:Masters
Scholarship Provider: IVHM Centre and University Centre Milton Keynes
Scholarship can be taken at: UK

Eligibility: -Applicants should have a first or second UK Honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline such as mechanical engineering, industrial/manufacturing engineering, computer science, software engineering or engineering design.
- Exposure to energy supply management is also desirable.

Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes

Scholarship Description: The electrical infrastructure that serves UK consumers today, despite having evolved to perform efficiently and effectively over more than a hundred years, will require considerable investment and redesign if these targets are to be met. Increasingly, the suite of technological capabilities known as the “Smart Grid” is being seen as the future form of this infrastructure. In the home environment these may allow the management of electricity supply and demand in an optimal way. The “Smart Grid” home may be able to inform the occupants of the best way to consume electricity, and to integrate excess capacity from domestic generation of power back into the grid. Key to these “Smart Grid” technologies achieving success will be acceptance and use of them by the consumer. In this project, you will investigate how to make these technologies work for people in their own homes.

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 July 2011

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Study Subject(s):Engineering logistics and Purchasing
Course Level:PhD
Scholarship Provider: Lund University, Sweden
Scholarship can be taken at: Sweden

Eligibility:
Preferred type of education would be M Sc in Industrial Management and Engineering (I), Mechanical Engineering (M) or similar education with specialisation in logistics. (Also 2 year Master programs in logistics, purchasing or supply chain management would be relevant). For the area ”Logistics and Business Law” some education with in Swedish Law is desirable, for the other areas education within Purchasing is desirable.

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: One PhD-student will be recruited to the area Performance based contracting, but possible might another be hired for one of the other areas. The duty will be in the following areas: – Performance-Based Contracting (outcome based contracting) The area studies relations between organizations where the contract focuses on outcomes and outputs (what is to be achieved) rather than resources and processes required to achieve outcomes (what is needed and how to do it). An example from practice is purchasing of aircraft engine availability (Power by the Hour). Research will focus on performance specification and management, risk transfer and handling, incentive alignment and supplier innovation.

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: 2011-07-30

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Study Subject(s):Polymer chemistry for biosensor and bioanalytical
Course Level:PhD
Scholarship Provider: Hasselt University
Scholarship can be taken at: Belgium

Eligibility: -The candidate is expected to perform research in the area of polymer chemistry for biosensor and bio-analytical applications.
-Demonstrated experience in the synthesis of organic molecules and/or polymers
-Willingness to collaborate in an interdisciplinary setting.
-A good command of the English language Master in Chemistry (or equivalent).
- Final year students are (likewise) encouraged to apply.

Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes

Scholarship Description: The topic of the PhD research is situated in the area of polymeric materials for application in biosensors and bio-analytical separations, with an emphasis on a number of synthetic organic chemical aspects of the research into molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs). In addition to synthesis, there will be attention paid to both a complete characterization of the obtained materials with a variety of analytical techniques as well as the final application of these materials in sensors and separations. In the framework of this project, there will be active collaborations with a multidisciplinary team of research groups both within and outside Hasselt University. Besides research, also a limited contribution in the didactic tasks of the department is expected from the candidate ( assistance in (laboratory) exercises or guidance of internships).

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: no later than 28 July 2011

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Study Subject(s):Topographic Information Visualisation
Course Level:PhD
Scholarship Provider: EPSRC and Aston University.
Scholarship can be taken at: UK

Eligibility:
he successful applicant should have a first class or upper second class honours degree or equivalent qualification in applied or computational mathematics, physics, or mathematically-oriented engineering. Preferred skill requirements include knowledge/experience of signal processing and/or data analysis. Applicants should fulfil the eligibility criteria for EPSRC funding through UK nationality and/or residency status

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: Applications are invited for a three year PhD studentship, supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Knowledge Transfer Network for Industrial Mathematics, to be undertaken within the Non-linearity and Complexity Research Group at Aston University. The successful applicant will join an international research group working on advancing knowledge in nonlinear and dynamic statistical pattern processing. The studentship is offered in collaboration with Thales Underwater Systems Limited. The position is available to start in October 2011 (subject to negotiation).Financial support will be provided to Home/EU students (subject to eligibility) at the standard EPSRC rate (£13,590 for 2011/12) with the corresponding standard EPSRC increases in subsequent years, plus a £3,000 per year award from the collaborating company.

How to Apply: By Post

Scholarship Application Deadline: August 15th 2011

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Study Subject(s): Developing a new generation of supramolecular materials with desired biocatalytic properties
Course Level: PhD
Scholarship Provider: University of Manchester
Scholarship can be taken at: UK
Eligibility:
Applicants should hold (or expect to obtain) a minimum upper-second honours degree (or equivalent) in chemistry with previous experience in peptide and oligonucleotide synthesis, organic chemistry, analytical and spectroscopic techniques. They must also be capable of working at the interface between chemistry, biology and nanotechnology. Some experience in computational chemistry would be highly beneficial.

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: The main aim of this fully-funded 4-year PhD is to develop a new generation of supramolecular materials with desired biocatalytic properties towards biologically significant biomolecules (e.g. RNA). These new functional materials will provide a basis for generating novel chemotherapeutics, affecting specific messenger RNAs and viral genomic RNAs and could potentially be applicable to biotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals and to the bio-medical healthcare sector.

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: 22 July, 2011

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Study Subject(s): Proteomic analyses of kidney glomerular extracellular matrix in health and disease
Course Level: PhD
Scholarship Provider: The University of Manchester
Scholarship can be taken at: UK
Eligibility:
Applicants should hold (or expect to obtain) a minimum upper-second honours degree (or equivalent) in one of the biological sciences. Previous experience in cell culture or bioinformatics would be advantageous.

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: The objective of this Kids Kidney Research funded 3-year PhD is to investigate the basic mechanisms underlying chronic kidney disease with the aim of identifying new therapeutic approaches. The studentship provides full support for tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of £13, 590. The project is due to commence October 2011 (although this is flexible) and is open to UK/EU nationals only due to the nature of the funding.

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: 3 August, 2011

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Study Subject(s):Environmental Geosciences
Course Level:Predoctoral
Scholarship Provider: University of Vienna
Scholarship can be taken at: Austria

Eligibility:
-Diploma/Master in Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences or Chemistry.
-Very good analytical or modeling experience to achieve the own research goals, which must be in accordance to the goals of the Department

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: We are looking for a Ph.D. student in the field of Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences or related sciences. We offer a 4 year pre-doc research assistant position with the possibility to achieve a Ph.D. The research profile must be in accordance with the research goals of the department (see webpage). Please apply with a research statement (2-3 pages). We offer a position in a highly motivated international English speaking group and excellent lab conditions.We expect the active contribution to the working group and the task in the Department.

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: no later than 31.08.2011

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Study Subject(s):Modern Jewish History and  Culture
Course Level:PhD
Scholarship Provider: The Leo Baeck Institute London
Scholarship can be taken at: UK

Eligibility:The recipient of this scholarship will be enrolled at the doctoral programme at the School of History, Queen Mary, University of London.
-You should apply for a postgraduate research place to the School of History, Queen Mary, University of London, indicating on your application that you wish to be considered for the “John A. S. Grenville PhD Studentship in Modern Jewish History and Culture”

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to offer a 3-year John A. S. Grenville studentship for an outstanding doctoral candidate wishing to pursue a research project in the field of German Jewish history and culture with a focus on the late 19th and 20thcenturies. Applications are invited from current and prospective graduates with an excellent academic track record. The studentship is named after John A. S. Grenville (1928-2011), an eminent scholar of modern world history and German Jewish history. The studentship amounts to £24,000 per year, from which tuition fees (£3,732 in 2011/12 for Home/EU students, £11,450 in 2011/12 for non-EU students),mustbe paid.

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 August 2011

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Study Subject(s): Delivering Low Carbon Buildings with Welsh Timber
Course Level: PhD
Scholarship Provider: KESS, Universities in Wales, European Social Fund
Scholarship can be taken at: UK

Eligibility:
A strong Bachelors or Masters degree in either disciple in mandatory. The student should be able to understand and produce formal models of interactions and cognitive models of human behaviour. The ability to design and build effective intefaces and evaluate these by controlled user studies is central to the post.

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: KESS is a collaborative project involving nine Universities in Wales, supported by European Social Fund Convergence programme funding (2009-14). KESS supports doctoral awards at Cardiff which are jointly sponsored by employers based in Convergence areas of Wales.
The key objectives of KESS to:
-Increase the research capacity of SMEs by linking with a PhD / Masters project.
-Encourage SMEs to undertake research and recruit researchers.
-Prepare and train individuals to contribute to research as professionals
-Support the development of key technologies in the Convergence area

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: 09 Sept 2011

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Study Subject(s):Bioinformatics
Course Level:Masters and PhD
Scholarship Provider: University of Wuerzburg
Scholarship can be taken at: Germany

Eligibility:Applicants should have a bachelor/master/diploma degree, and a strong background in bioinformatics/computational biology and gene expression analysis.
-Additional knowledge in microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, or/and infection biology would be beneficial.

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: Applications are invited for a master student or PhD student position on the analysis of high- throughput sequencing data. Our groups (AG Vogel, AG Sharma) are interested in using Solexa and SOLiD technology for gene expression profiling (RNA-seq) and the identification of small RNAs and microRNA, and post-transcriptional regulons in pathogenic bacteria and eukaryotic hosts (see our recent publications in Nature. successful applicant will work in the dynamic environment of the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology.Applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community regardless of race, gender or disability are welcome.

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: July 15th 2011

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Study Subject(s):Functional Programming
Course Level:PhD
Scholarship Provider: Chalmers University
Scholarship can be taken at: Sweden

Eligibility:-We are looking for a creative person with an excellent Bachelors or Masters degree, and a keen interest in functional programming.
-You should have carried out significant projects in a functional language, perhaps as a Bachelors or Masters thesis.
-We would like to see some concrete evidence of your activities in functional programming.
-For that, you could send us a published paper of your work, which constitutes a considerable merit, an extended abstract, a technical report, or a copy of your bachelors or masters thesis.

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: Functional programming is enjoying an unprecedented surge of interest, with languages such as Erlang, Scala and Haskell seeing high-profile applications in companies large and small. A major reason is the much improved productivity that software developers can enjoy, by adopting functional programming. With intense competition from emerging economies, productivity improvements are vital if the West is to retain its software industry. We have secured a large, five-year strategic research grant to bring these benefits to two new areas: signal processing and low-level control in the system layer of products such as radio base stations for mobile broadband, and real-time automotive software built around the AUTOSAR standard. Our approach is to combine domain-specific languages embedded in Haskell or Erlang with rapid verification based on property-based testing (QuickCheck) and automated proof tools. Our work is carried out in close cooperation with industry, and has the potential to make a real impact in key industrial sectors.

How to Apply: Online or by Post

Scholarship Application Deadline: 2011-09-01

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Nottingham Trent University Announce PhD Studentship in Real Estate Economics and Investment Analysis, UK

Study Subject: Real Estate Economics and Investment Analysis
Employer: Nottingham Trent University
Level: PhD
Scholarship Description: The School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment at Nottingham Trent University has an ambitious development strategy which allows us to offer an exciting opportunity for a PhD Studentship. The studentships will pay UK/EU fees and provide a maintenance stipend linked to the RCUK rate (£13,590 per annum for 2011/12) for up to three years. Real estate is a major asset class nationally and internationally and it has a major impact on the macroeconomy, having a significant role in the recent recession. Research in real estate economics and investment has advanced significantly over the last decade as longer time series databases have become available. In addition, there has been a significant growth in the scale of international real estate investment consequent upon the globalisation of production processes and financial deregulation (Tiwari and White, 2010). There is also strengthened interconnection between real estate markets, the financial sector and national economies that impact on the amplitude of fluctuation of economic cycles. These factors also raise the importance of obtaining good quality data upon which to build economic models that can show the operation of real estate markets across countries.

In this PhD study, the student would examine real estate market models that link occupation, investment and development sectors, considering how to effectively model the investment sector that has historically often been treated as exogenous to such models. As part of this, market adjustment processes in occupation and investment markets would be explicitly considered and different models of adjustment would be estimated. The empirical model estimated would be able to show the interaction between the real estate market and the macroeconomy and would also link to the theoretical issues of market adjustment towards trend growth paths. Econometric theory supporting model construction and inference would also be investigated to ensure model validity. Having constructed the market model, the study would then proceed to consider how this model could be applied to examine real estate markets internationally, nationally, and regionally. It would examine additional factors that have differing levels of importance at different spatial scales and the drivers of investment across national boundaries. Issues of market efficiency, liquidity, market size, and the wider capital market would be considered (see Dunse et al, 2007 and 2010). Real estate investment decision making would then be evaluated in light of the evidence from market models applied at different scales of analysis. The models would also be used as a basis for identification of the importance of key factors and to simulate and forecast market performance.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 April 2011

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PhD Studentship in Comparative & International Business at University of Manchester in UK-2011

Study Subject:Comparative & International Business
Employer: University of Manchester
Level:PhD
Scholarship Description:The rise of China, India and Brazil as economic and political ‘drivers’ of the global economy is subject to both academic research and policy deliberations (Lauder, Brown, and Brown 2008). These economies not only have managed to sustain growth despite the economic downturn but have also turned out to be drivers of economic change that challenge established wisdom of both economic performance and development. This project will look at the following issues:How firms from rising powers may be disrupting the current paradigm of global competition and are thus changing the ‘rules of the game’ (Zeng and Williamson 2007).

Rising power firms are increasingly becoming global players, taking on more substantive roles in global production networks or becoming lead firms in their own right (Schmitz 2004). Which factors facilitate this development, how can firms upgrade their position.Furthermore, rising power firms often address ‘bottom of the pyramid’ markets or engage in entrepreneurial innovation that is unprecedented and alleviates social problems (London, Anupindi, and Sheth 2010). This project seeks to identify drivers and outcomes of this economic development process.
ValueThe three-year, full-time award covers tuition fees and a tax-free annual stipend of approximately £13,000 per year.
EligibilityApplicants should ideally have a First or Upper Second Class Honours degree in a relevant discipline and have obtained or expect to complete by autumn 2011, a Masters degree in a relevant business and management subject.

The research will involve both theoretical development and empirical field-work. The candidate should have good inter-personal skills, be willing to travel to collect data and have excellent writing skills. The candidate will be required to apply methodology flexibly and competently, including both qualitative and quantitative techniques. Applications are invited from UK, EU and international candidates.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 1 April 2011

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