PhD Positions at The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences

The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences (IMPRS-LS) has openings for PhD student positions in the international PhD program “Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences”

The IMPRS-LS is jointly conducted by the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in cooperation with the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and the Technical University Munich. The school offers a PhD program in life sciences covering areas of biochemistry, cell biology, molecular medicine, neurobiology and structural biology. The 3 year program, entirely taught in English, provides comprehensive scientific training in a superb and vibrant research environment with state of the art facilities and cutting edge research projects. The doctoral degree will be awarded by one of the two Munich universities both of which are amongst the highest ranking universities in Germany.

Students can specialize in one of five major disciplines that form parallel but interlinked tracts thereby creating an interdisciplinary context to promote the ability of cross-frontier thinking. Laboratory work will be supplemented by seminars, summer schools, elective courses, training in soft skills and participation in international conferences.

Highly qualified candidates with a deep commitment to basic and/or clinical research are invited to apply. Applicants should hold a MSc (or an equivalent degree) in biological sciences, biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, medicine or a related discipline. A one year preparatory program is available to a limited number of outstanding applicants with a Bachelor`s degree allowing a fast track path towards a doctoral degree.

Fellowships are available to German and international students. Candidates will be selected on a competitive basis. Deadline for application is January 15; selection will be completed by April 15; classes will commence October 1. Accepted candidates may start their research projects as early as Mai each year.

Contact:

Hans-Joerg Schaeffer, PhD
Program Coordinator
IMPRS-LS
Am Klopferspitz 18
82152 Martinsried, Germany
phone: ++49 89 8578-2281
fax: ++49 89 8578-2282
email: info@imprs-ls.mpg.de
website: www.imprs-ls.mpg.de


Scholarship possibilities- Ghent University, Belgium

Scholarship possibilities for students from developing countries

International Foundation for Science (IFS)


Deadlines at IFS (for the special calls):
  • 31 December 2006: Use of Water as a Scarce Commodity in Biological Production
  • 31 December 2006: Sustainable Sanitation in developing countries
  • 31 December 2006: Water Research in OIC Countries
    IFS supports young developing country scientists who have the potential for becoming the future research leaders and lead scientists in their nations. IFS helps the young researchers with the start of their career and helps them to receive national and international recognition.
    In june 2004 the     VLIR signed an agreement for 135.000 euro with IFS for the financing of scholarships for researchers tenured at one of the IUC partner institutions.
    For more information concerning the agreement between the VLIR and IFS, you can contact     Annick Verheylezoon.

    International Course Programme (ICP)

    Deadline: Spring 2007 (for academic year 2007-2008) at the VLIR.
    The International Course Programme (ICP) finances study programmes at Flemish Universities and provides a yearly intake of maximum 150 new scholars from developing countries (    country list), attending these courses. These courses, which result in the diploma master after master, can also be attended by students with other financial means.

    Ghent University organises 6 courses:

    ICP-PhD scholarships

    Deadline: Spring 2007
    in 2 hard copies and by e-mail to helke.baeyens@UGent.be

    In order to be eligible for an ICP Ph. D. grant, the student has to be a ICP graduate (master’s level), the application should be submitted to the     VLIR within two years after graduation from the ICP, he has to be a national of a country on the VLIR-OEDC country list and he should have a permanent residence in a developing country.

    For more information, you can contact     Helke Baeyens, tel. 09/264 30 35.

    PhD scholarships for candidates from developing countries

    Deadline: Spring 2007.
    The Special Research Fund of Ghent University (BOF) allocates yearly a certain budget for students from developing countries (    country list) in order to obtain a PhD at Ghent University.
    For more information, you can contact     David Lombart, tel. 09/264 31 23.

    Belgian Technical Co-operation (BTC)

    The BTC manages the files of the scholarships, which have been awarded by DGOS. The BTC itself does not award grants. In order to apply for a scholarship, you should contact the attaché for development co-operation or the Belgian embassy in your country (country list).

    Postdoc fellowships to non-EU researchers

    The stimulation of international mobility and the attraction of researchers from abroad is one of the priorities of the European Research Area.
    In this context and intending to stimulate the S&T; cooperation,
    the Federal Science Policy Office does implement a fellowship scheme for highly qualified researchers (i.e. postdoctoral level or equivalent experience) from specific regions, granting them an oppotunity to work during 6 to 12 months in a Belgian research team.
    The targeted countries/researchers concern:
  • Eastern Europe (non-EU members), Caucasia and Central Asia (New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union);
  • the non-European Mediterranean Region: Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunesia, Turkey;
  • Central Africa: Burundi, Congo, Rwanda;
  • South America (without preference).
    The potential Belgian host units are those which are involved in the research programmes and actions of the Federal Science Policy Office (cf.     FEDRA).
    Applications are sent to the Federal Science Policy Office by the Belgian project leaders. The selection takes place once a year. Only complete and duly signed applications will be taken into consideration.
    The application forms are available at the website of the     Belgian Science Policy.

    For more information, you can contact     Lieve Huys, tel. 09/264 30 28.

    Others

    • More Info at:http://www.ugent.be/en/research/developmentcooperation/scholarships.htm

    PhD Scholarship in Civil Engineering-Univ. of Strathclyde-UK

    More information from Dr Minna Karstunen (email:
    minna.karstunen@strath.ac.uk,
    Tel. +44 141 5483252)

    *Requirements:*
    A good undergraduate degree in civil engineering, geotechnical engineering or a related topic. An MSc degree in Geotechnical Engineering and/or industrial experience would be an advantage.

    *Start date October 2006. *

    The studentship will consist of a tax-free scholarship of £12,500 per annum and the tuition fees at home/EU student level for three years. The fellowship is funded by the Faculty of Engineering.

    *Topic of research:*
    The PhD project deals with finite element modelling of embankments on soft soils, considering various foundation methods, such as preloading, vertical drains and stone columns/lime-cement columns. The numerical simulations will
    be done by 2D and 3D version of PLAXIS, using recently developed advanced soil models that account for plastic strain induced anisotropy, bonding and destructuration and this may involve constitutive model development and numerical implementation.

    PhD Scholarship, Stockholm University-Sweden

    The deadline for applications is the 1st of August

    There is a 4 year PhD Scholarship entitled "Fundamentals of subgrain nucleation, growth and interaction: Linking numerical modelling and in-situ experiments" associated with a European Science Foundation EUROCORES project available at Stockholm University.

    For further information please download this information sheet:
    http://www.lmtg.obs-mip.fr/user/mjessell/PhD_stockholm.pdf

    Mark Jessell
    IRD LMTG UMR 5563
    14 avenue Edouard Belin
    31400 TOULOUSE
    Tel: +33 (0)5 61 33 26 47
    www.lmtg.obs-mip.fr/user/mjessell (home)
    www.tectask.org (IUGS Tectask)
    www.lmtg.obs-mip.fr/grc2006 (GRC Conference on Rock
    Deformation)
    www.materialsknowledge.org (Marie Curie Summer Schools)

    PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, SPEECH TECHNOLOGY, University of Edinburgh, UK

    Application deadlines for entry in September 2006:

    January 31, 2006 for overseas students
    March 31, 2006 for UK and EU students

    Applications received after these deadlines may be considered, but
    this cannot be guaranteed.

    For more information on CSTR, ICCS, and HCRC, please visit:

    http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/
    http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/
    http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/

    The Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), the Institute of
    Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), and the Human
    Communication Research Centre (HCRC) in Edinburgh invite applications
    for three-year PhD studentships starting in September 2006.

    CSTR and ICCS combine to form the world's largest concentration of
    researchers studying the theoretical, computational, and cognitive
    aspects of language and speech. HCRC provides an interdisciplinary
    research environment that includes staff from the School of
    Informatics and the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language
    Sciences pursuing research into the communication among humans and
    between humans and machines, using text, speech, and graphics. All
    three Institutes also have a strong track record in applied and
    industry-sponsored research.

    PhD students will work on topics drawn from the following areas
    (potential supervisors are listed in brackets):

    o Speech technology (Rob Clark, Simon King, Steve Renals, Hiroshi
    Shimodaira): conversational agents, multimodal interaction, prosody
    and information structure, speech recognition, speech synthesis

    o Cognitive science (Jean Carletta, Frank Keller, John Lee, Jon
    Oberlander, Helen Pain, Keith Stenning): computational
    psycholinguistics, educational technology, graphical communication,
    human reasoning

    o Computational linguistics (Claire Grover, Ewan Klein, Philipp Koehn,
    Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides, Oliver Lemon, Colin Matheson,
    Johanna Moore, Miles Osborne, Mark Steedman, Henry Thompson, Richard
    Tobin, Bonnie Webber): annotation and markup, biomedical NLP,
    computational semantics, discourse and dialogue, information
    extraction, machine translation, generation, parsing, question
    answering, statistical NLP

    Approximately 12 studentships from a variety of sources are available
    to cover maintenance at the standard research council rate of
    approximately GBP 12.000 per year and tuition fees at the home/EU or
    overseas rate.

    Additionally 5 Marie Curie Fellowships for early stage researchers
    working towards a PhD in the area of speech science and technology are
    available. For more details see http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/edsst/.

    Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in
    computational linguistics, speech technology, cognitive science,
    computer science, or a related discipline.

    For further information please contact Dr. Hiroshi Shimodaira
    (hshimoda@inf.ed.ac.uk). Application forms and details on how to apply
    are available from:

    http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.html
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