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United Kingdom - 2009 Scottish Univeristies Physics Alliance PhD Studentships in Physics

Eight fully funded Prize PhD Studentships
+ over 100 other funded PhD places in physics in Scotland

The Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) opens a single front door into physics PhDs in Scotland. When you apply for SUPA Prize PhD Studentship you will also be considered for all other funded places available in physics departments in Scotland.

Major themes pursued by researchers in SUPA are:

• astronomy and space
• condensed matter and material physics
• nuclear and plasma physics
• particle physics
• photonics
• physics and life sciences

UK and overseas students are invited to apply for 8 fully funded SUPA studentships and more than 100 other funded PhD places in physics in Scotland for 2009.

SUPA Studentships
SUPA is offering eight fully funded PhD studentships for outstanding students from anywhere in the world. These prestigious and competitive awards are intended to attract excellent students to study for a PhD in Scotland.

Continue Reading October 8th, 2008

Italy - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia PhD Studentship in Biophysics

Job description
Protein folding remains a major unsolved challenge for modern biophysics. Despite the experimental and theoretical efforts of many laboratories in the last 40 years, our understanding of the basic rules that govern the attainment of a protein structure is still incomplete. This lack of information is partly due to the inadequacy of conventional bulk methods to study a process that is highly heterogeneous. During folding, individual molecules are thought to follow different pathways and populate different intermediate structures on their journey to the native state. Such a diversity of behaviors is often blurred in the ensemble average measured by bulk methods.

Recent advances in single molecule manipulation techniques, such as laser tweezers, have made it possible to revisit protein folding with a new approach. In these experiments, individual molecules are directly manipulated and their unfolding and refolding trajectories described along a well-defined reaction coordinate, namely their molecular end-to-end distance. In a work published in Science, Cecconi et al. has recently presented a method to manipulate individual globular proteins using laser tweezers [Cecconi et al., Science 2005; Cecconi et al., European Biophysics Journal 2008]. Using this novel experimental approach, Cecconi et al. investigated the folding pathways of single RNase H molecules with unprecedented details, uncovering information inaccessible to ensemble methods.

Continue Reading September 24th, 2008

Germany - International Helmholtz Research School PhD Studentships in Biophysics and Soft Matter

PhD studentship: The International Helmholtz Research School on “Biophysics and Soft Matter” (IHRS) offers PhD studentships to students with excellent results in Biology, Biophysics, Physics, Biochemistry or Chemistry.

The International Helmholtz Research School on ‘Biophysics and Soft Matter’ (IHRS-BioSoft) at the Research Centre Jülich (FZJ) in cooperation with the Universities of Düsseldorf and Köln will provide an in-depth training in Biophysics and Soft Matter and a comprehensive framework of experimental and theoretical tools that will enable Ph.D. students to gain deeper understanding into the structure, dynamics, and function of complex systems, in particular those related to living systems.

The International Helmholtz Research School offers positions for graduate students (leading to a Ph.D. within 3 years) who will be employed at the FZJ or at one of the cooperating Universities.

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September 22nd, 2008

Italy - University of Venice and University of Padua Postdoc Position in Protein Physics

Job Offer: Post-Doctoral position in Protein Physics, Italy

Applications are invited for a one- (renewable up to two-) year postdoctoral position in Protein Physics starting within December 2008.

The position is a joint appointment between Universities of Venice and Padua within a project headed by Prof. Amos Maritan.

Ideal candidates for this position hold a Ph.D. in a field related to Soft Matter, a good theoretical background and strong computer skills.

Salary will be at the level of the first permanent position on the Italian scale (”Ricercatore”) ( about 1,500 Euros monthly net salary).

Continue Reading September 18th, 2008

Australia - 2008 Curtin University of Technology Research Fellowships in Various Fields

Curtin Research Fellowships

The Fellowship scheme aims to attract high quality researchers with excellent potential for providing future academic and research leadership at the University. The scheme was expanded as a major strategic development under the University’s Research Management Plan 2006-2008. It is highly competitive and amongst the most prestigious Fellowship schemes in Australia.

Curtin University of Technology will offer up to thirteen Research Fellowships commencing in 2009. Up to five Early Career Researcher (ECR) Fellowships will be available for suitably qualified candidates who received their PhD within the last five years and up to eight Senior Research (SR) Fellowships will be available to suitably qualified candidates with more than five years post-doctoral experience.

Preference will be given to applicants who are able to make significant contributions in the following targeted areas of research activity:

• Sustainability/Sustainable Development;
• Cultural Enterprises;
• Chronic Disease Prevention and Management;
• Population Health;
• Mental Health;
• Ageing;
• Indigenous Health;
• Geology;
• Chemical Engineering;
• Electrical and Computer Engineering allied to high performance computing;
• Radio Astronomy;
• Theoretical Physics;
• Climate Modelling;
• Nanochemistry/Water Chemistry/Organic Geochemistry;
• Digital Ecosystems;
• Economic Development

Continue Reading August 29th, 2008

France - University of Franche-Comté PhD Scholarship in Spectral Analysis of Phase Noise and Frequency Stability of Oscillators

Ph.D. Training Opportunity & Stipend – starting fall 2008

Spectral analysis of phase noise and frequency stability of oscillators
proposed byEnrico Rubiola

FEMTO-ST Institute, Dept. of Time and Frequency
CNRS et University of Franche Comte

Subject
Time and frequency have a privileged role in physics and applications because they are the most precisely measured physical quantities. The wrist watch, for example, is the only artifact accurate within 1E-5 - 1E-6 at a cost affordable to all consumers. Atomic clocks exhibit the amazing accuracy of 1E-15, and a stability better by a factor 10. Though the accuracy of 1E-15 relates only to fundamental physics and metrology, short term stability is a major concern in telecommunications, space applications and radars.

Traditionally, frequency stability is measured in the time domain and described using wavelet variances known as the Allan variance sigma_y^2(tau) and its modified versions. The variable tau is the measurement time. The stability depends on the measurement time in the same way of a balance, which is less “precise” when the mass to be measured is very different from 1 kg.

Continue Reading August 27th, 2008

United Kingdom - Lancaster University PhD Studentship in Physics

Lancaster University invites applications for a fully-funded PhD position in its Department of Physics.

The successful applicant will join the largest low temperature group in the UK in one of the best physics departments in the country, graded 5*A in the last national Research Assessment Exercise. He/she will participate in topical studies of critical phenomena in and on liquid helium, including studies of quantum excitations and capillary turbulence on the surfaces of both liquid 4He and liquid 3He in the ultra-low-temperature limit. The work has wide interdisciplinary implications, including e.g. to space science and the mysterious creation mechanism of the giant rogue waves that occasionally appear on the ocean and endanger shipping.

The project involves collaborative research with ISIS at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. It is based on the unique combination of neutron reflection, ultralow temperature sample environment, and the deeply quantum nature of the helium isotopes. The PhD student will be based in Lancaster, but will participate in and help to develop the experiments at ISIS. Thus he/she will conduct low and ultra-low temperature experiments, work with quantum fluids and neutron facilities, gain wide experience in cryogenic engineering, learn the diverse experimental and theoretical methods required by the professional physicist, and be a part of a multidisciplinary research team. There will be opportunities to visit our collaborators at the ISSP in Chernogolovka, near Moscow, and for participation in international conferences.

Continue Reading August 7th, 2008

United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh PhD Studentships in Metal-organic Frameworks

University of Edinburgh
2 PhD studentships
Graduate School of Engineering and Electronics

Metal-organic frameworks for hydrogen purification and catalytic applications – suitable for chemical engineers, chemists, and physicists

Funding is available for two PhD studentships in the School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh on two separate metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) related projects. Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) constitute one of the most exciting developments in recent nanoporous-materials science, with potential applications in many areas, including catalysis, gas separation and storage. The major advantage of MOFs over more traditional porous materials, such as zeolites, is the greater scope for tailoring these materials for specific applications due to their modular synthesis from corner units (generally metal ions or clusters) and linker units (organic molecules able to bridge the metal corners).

Continue Reading July 7th, 2008

Australia - University of Sydney Postdoctoral / Research Fellow in Quantum Plasma Physics

Postdoctoral/Research Fellow in Quantum Plasma Physics
School of Physics
Reference No. 130304

The School of Physics at the University of Sydney pursues a vigorous program of research including astronomy and astrophysics, space physics, biological and medical physics, photonics, quantum physics, particle physics, plasma physics, and surface and materials physics.

The School invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Fellow to join a research group on quantum plasma physics, led by Professor Don Melrose and Dr Mike Wheatland. The appointee will work on specific projects that combine quantum and fluid descriptions of magnetized plasmas.

To be appointed at the Postdoctoral Fellow level, a PhD in Theoretical Physics or a related discipline is essential, as is a demonstrated capacity to conduct independent research in theoretical or computational physics. The appointee must be familiar with numerical techniques for solving partial differential equations, and demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment. Experience in computational fluid mechanics and some knowledge of quantum electrodynamics will be desirable.

Continue Reading May 28th, 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