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Japan - 2009 Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship Program for Research Students

The Embassy of Japan has begun offering scholarships to Indonesian students who wish to study at Japanese universities as research students for the academic year 2009 under the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) scholarship program.

Any grantee who desires to enroll in a regular graduate course (a master’s course, a doctoral course or a professional graduate course) after studying as a research student or to move on from a master’s course or a professional graduate course to a doctoral course must pass an entrance examination given by the university concerned.

Applicants must have the following qualifications (among others):

• Applicants must have been born on or after April 2, 1974
• Applicants must have received from their university a GPA of 3.0 or higher or must have achieved a total score of 260 or higher in 2 subjects (except the subject of “Japanese”) in the Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU).
• a minimum TOEFL score of 550 or equivalent or The Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2 or higher.

Application forms are available free of charge at the Embassy of Japan (Education Section: 8:30-12:00, 14:00-15:30), the Consulates General of Japan in Surabaya, Medan and Makassar and are also available on the Embassy of Japan website (http://www.id.emb-japan.go.jp).

Continue Reading May 14th, 2008

Ireland - Tyndall National Institute PhD Position in Physics of Nanostructures

A new group (Epitaxy and Physics of Nanostructures) was established in January 2007 at Tyndall National Institute under an SFI Principal Investigator grant. The group is led by Dr. E. Pelucchi. The research will concentrate on the epitaxy, optical properties and spectroscopy of site controlled Pyramidal quantum dots and wires [1] and on their extension to telecommunication wavelengths.

This novel approach to site controlled quantum wires and dots (QD) growth has been pioneered by Dr Pelucchi in the group of Prof Kapon in EPFL, using MOVPE growth on a pre-patterned substrate to achieve reproducible QD emission spectra with, for example, the lowest inhomogeneous broadening to date for a QD epitaxial field. The high level of growth control makes such nanostructures ideal candidates for studies and devices related to quantum communication/information processing (efficient single photon emission being a good example), enabling the achievement of atom-like energy states whose energy and electronic wavefunction can be engineered at the nanoscale level by acting on a few parameters, so that the dots can, in principle, be individually and unambiguously (optically and electrically) addressed and controlled.

Continue Reading May 12th, 2008

USA - University of California Postdoctoral Fellowship in Developmental Biology

We are searching for a Post-Doctoral Fellow to contribute to studies on developmental mechanisms underlying evolution and structural diseases of the face. Applicants should be recent Ph. D. awardees who are highly motivated and energetic. In addition to completing this funded research, the candidate will be strongly encouraged to develop novel, yet complimentary research objectives that will lead to independent funding. Applicants should have strong molecular biology skills, or a strong desire to learn these techniques rapidly, and a background in developmental biology.

Application
Please submit C.V. and names of at least 2 references to:

Ralph Marcucio, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco, SFGH
1001 Potrero Ave., Bldg 9, Room 346
San Francisco, CA, 94110 USA

May 12th, 2008

Thailand - 2008 BIOTEC Postdoctoral Fellowships in Various Fields

BIOTEC welcomes new or recent doctorates in the fields of molecular biology, molecular genetics, microbiology, biochemistry and biotechnology. The following research topics are currently open for postdoctoral fellows:

• Immunostimulation and viral infection in shrimp and crab.
• Genomic and proteomic characterization of Laem Singh virus (LSNV), a new shrimp pathogen found in Thailand.
• Protein structure determination to understand structure-function relationship and catalytic mechanism in human malaria.
• Integrated computational tools for antimalarial drug design.
• Post-genomics studies for identification of potential antimalarial targets.
• Identification of pfDHFR-TS translational control complex.

In order to be eligible, applicants must have recently received their doctoral degree during the past two or three years.

Continue Reading May 11th, 2008

Norway - University of Bergen PhD Research Fellowship in Mathematics

At the Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen or SINTEF ICT, Oslo, a 3-year position as Research Fellow (PhD position) is available within the project

Geological Storage of CO2: Mathematical Modelling and Risk Analysis.

The fellowship is financed by the Research Council of Norway, StatoilHydro and Shell. Work location will be either at the University of Bergen or at SINTEF ICT in Oslo.

The project is a cooperation between research groups at the University of Bergen and SINTEF ICT in Oslo. The candidate will participate in an international research network devoted to the development of analytical and numerical tools to be used in risk assessment analysis of geological storage of CO2. The candidate will in particular focus on the development of streamline methods for simulating CO2 injection. We seek a candidate with background from some of the fields: numerical analysis and programming, differential equations, and reservoir modelling and simulation. More information about the project is found at http://www.math.sintef.no/matmora.

The research fellow must take part in the Universitys approved PhD programme leading to the degree within a time limit of 3 years. Application for admission to the PhD programme, including a project plan outline for the training module, will be worked out in collaboration with the research group in question.

Continue Reading May 11th, 2008

Italy - 2008 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice PhD Scholarships in Economics and Business Management

The Advanced School of Economics (in Italian: Scuola Superiore di Economia, or SSE for short) runs two doctoral programs: one in Economics and one in Business.

DEC: Application 2008
The deadline for applying to DEC is May 20, 2008. Notice of admission for DEC will be given by June 9, 2008. Classes start on September 1, 2008.

DEC will admit up to ten students, seven of which will be fully financed (including tuition fees and living stipend). One position in DEC will be preferentially assigned to students with an interest in Mathematical Methods for Economics. The School provides subsidized housing to all first-year students.

Continue Reading May 10th, 2008

United Kingdom - 2008 EPSRC DTA PhD PhD Studentship in Bioproduction at Newcastle University

An EPSRC DTA PhD studentship is available within the Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology in the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials to carry out research in the area of data analysis and predictive modeling as part of a European Integrated Research Project developing new technologies for the bio-production of renewable materials (bio-materials).

The successful candidates will join the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials which has internationally acknowledged multi-disciplinary research teams. The research will be carried out with the process intensification and CPACT research groups.

Person Specification
Candidates should have a first-class or upper-second-class Honours degree, or equivalent, in chemical engineering or a related subject, be able to demonstrate good communication skills and be willing to work for periods of time with collaborating companies and universities across Europe. Due to funding criteria, only students from the UK and EU are eligible for this studentship.

Continue Reading May 9th, 2008

France - University of Nice Sophia Antipolis PhD Studentship in Aroma and Perfume Research

At the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Côte d’Azur – France, in the Faculty of Chemistry, Parc Valrose, a motivated and competent Ph.D. student is required, capable to analyse the molecular ingredients in aromas and perfumes by multidimensional chromatographic techniques. Starting in October 2008, a BDO/BDI contract will be offered (brut: 1757,- EUR/month), including possibilities for a three-year extension.

The ideal candidate will have a Master-2 degree in chemistry, a strong background in bioanalytical chemistry as well as in chromatographic techniques. English language skills are mandatory.

Apply with CV and letter of interest in English or French language to Pr. Uwe Meierhenrich, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, LCMBA, 06108 Nice Cedex 2, Uwe.Meierhenrich@unice.fr. The closing date for applications is Thursday 22 May 2008.

May 8th, 2008

France - University of Saint Etienne PhD Position in Color Content-Aware Image Processing

PHD POSITION AVAILABLE (36 months - from october 2008)

Subject: Robust color invariant features for object recognition

Introduction:
Image retrieval consists in finding among a database of target images those which represent the same scene as this represented by a query image. In this context, the key-point is the extraction of efficient descriptors from the images.

Several recent studies have shown that color histograms can be very efficient in this context. However, color histograms do not take into account the spatial arrangement of colors and are very sensitive to illumination changes. Several authors have shown
that the spatial organization of colors could significantly improve the performance of the image classifiers.

Some spatial descriptors, such as color correlograms, may be used to represent in a global way the spatial arrangement of colors in the image, but they are sensitive to object occlusion and scale variation and are not designed to recognize objects in cluttered scenes. In very recent works, few searchers propose to extract local descriptors such as SIFT or SURF which have been proven to be more robust to local features. The SURF outperform the SIFT and are less time consuming. However, the SURF are not yet designed to work on color images.

Continue Reading May 7th, 2008

Spain - University of Castilla-La Mancha Postdoc Position in Ultrafast Time Resolved Spectroscopy and Single Molecule Microscopy

The Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Toledo, Spain) is seeking for an outstanding postdoc candidate for a research project based on the use of ultrafast optical and spectroscopic techniques to interrogate mater at the atomic scale. For this purpose, our labs have femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion, transient-absorption and time-resolved single-molecule fluorescence microscopy techniques.

In this project we wish to study at the femtosecond time scale and at single molecule level, the dynamics of confined nanostructures formed by organic molecules and several nanohosts. The project is linked to our on-going activities in the field of femtochemistyr and femtobiology + single molecule microscopy. We are looking for applicants with a solid background in ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy.

The position is available for 2 years.

Continue Reading May 7th, 2008