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Indonesia - 2009 Sumitro Research Fellowship Grants

SUMITRO FELLOWS
2009 GRANT APPLICATIONS

The United States Indonesia Society (USINDO) invites applications for its two 2009 travel/study grants for post-doctoral scholars, Ph.D. candidates, senior academics, and otherwise professionally qualified candidates to engage in field research in Indonesia on an economic or political-economic topic. One grant is available to United States citizens and permanent residents in the United States with a specific project relating to the political economy of Indonesia. The Indonesian Sumitro Fellowship is open to an Indonesian citizen with a project related to the Indonesia-United States bilateral relationship. Previous travel to, and experience in, Indonesia or the United States (for Indonesian Sumitro applicants) is desirable but not necessarily a requirement. The deadline for the 2009 Sumitro Fellows Applications is Friday, October 31, 2008.

The Sumitro Fellows program honors Dr. Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, Indonesia’s senior economist and advisor to USINDO, who passed away in 2001. An architect of Indonesia’s modern economy, Professor Sumitro headed the faculty of economics at the University of Indonesia, and was later a minister of trade and minister of state for research.

Professor Sumitro was also the driving force behind a 1950’s program of the Ford Foundation which sent Indonesian economists to U.S. academic institutions for advanced degrees. Many attended the University of California at Berkeley and the group came to be known as the “Berkeley Mafia” when its members assumed many key cabinet posts in subsequent decades.

The Sumitro Fellows grants for the 2009 application cycle are $10 000 each.

Continue Reading October 9th, 2008

Thailand - AIT Post Doctoral Opportunities in Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Post Doctoral Opportunities on Climate Change Research for Sustainable Development

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) invites applications for postdoctoral fellows or research associates in their thematic research area of Climate Change and Sustainable Development.

AIT is in the process of consolidating, strengthening and expanding research in response to climate change in the areas of technology, policy and planning, managerial and institutional arrangements. This opportunity will be in climate change science, mitigation of green house emissions, vulnerability aspects, adaptation measures to climate change, and more. In this effort, AIT plans to continue its work in an interdisciplinary manner, cutting across research that explores:

• How science influences policy, economic planning for governance and enabling mechanisms;
• Application of energy efficient and renewable energy technologies, linking rational energy use to adaption/impact of climate change vulnerability in a geographic context;
• Building resilience in urban, rural and coastal communities and social groups;
• Research on increasing carbon sequestering, including appropriate agricultural practices through selection and management of crops and vegetation, assessment of GHG emission in rice-based farming systems;
• Efficient technologies for treating waste which mitigates GHG emissions and facilitates energy recovery;
• Efficient use of water resources, water hydrology, land use;
• Biofuel and food security challenges;
• Linkages to Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s);
• Planning for new cities and other infrastructure development, prevention of further investments on unsuitable locations and vulnerability mapping using GIS;
• Use of sensors and nanotechnology-based devices for detecting of atmospheric changes;
• Business opportunities as a result of climate change adaptation and mitigation, etc.

Continue Reading October 8th, 2008

Germany - Darmstadt University of Technology Postdoc and PhD Researcher Positions in Signal Processing

The Communication Systems Group at Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany) invites applications for Postdoctoral and Ph.D. researcher positions in the field of multi-sensor signal processing. The positions will be available from the beginning of 2009. The research will be supervised by Prof. Alex Gershman. We offer very competitive salaries and facilities that are among the best in the world. Candidates are expected to have a strong academic record, and should demonstrate their solid knowledge in math, statistics and probability theory, estimation and detection theory, and signal processing. Knowledge of communication and information theories will be an asset. Graduates from internationally well-known universities with top 5% records in their classes are particularly encouraged to apply.

To apply: Candidates should send their full CV to Prof. Gershman (Email: gershman[ at ]nt.tu-darmstadt.de ).

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October 7th, 2008

Germany - Darmstadt University of Technology Phd / Postdoc Position in Adaptive Wavelet Methods for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

Within the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1324 the Department of Mathematics at the Technische Universität Darmstadt offers a

PhD- or Postdoc-Position (Pos. No. 325)

volume of employment 75%, for three years.

The candidate will work in a research project on Adaptive wavelet Methods for stochastic Partial Differential Equations, which is jointly carried out in Darmstadt (Prof. Ritter), Dresden (Prof. Schilling) and Marburg (Prof. Dahlke).

Applicants should have a strong background in probability theory (stochastic analysis) or numerical analysis (partial differential equations, wavelets). German language skills are helpful, but not necessary.

Continue Reading September 26th, 2008

Ireland - National University of Ireland Postgraduate Research Opportunities in Earth, Ocean and Environmental Sciences

Funded post-graduate research opportunities at NUI Galway

The Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences (EOS) at NUI Galway supports 10 academic staff, 4 senior researchers, 6 post-doctoral researchers and about 30 post-graduate students who contribute to multi-disciplinary research across a wide range of topics in earth, ocean and environmental sciences. The Griffith Geoscience Research Awards (GGRA), established by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and managed by the Geological Survey of Ireland, seek to attract early stage researchers from abroad and to encourage Irish researchers to visit international centres of geoscience research. EOS has been awarded > €3m within the GGRA scheme to expand its research in coastal and marine science and is seeking applicants for 2 funded 4-year post-graduate research positions, one each in the following areas:

PhD 1: The ‘Understanding coastal aquifers in karst regions’ project is concerned with integrating aqueous chemistry, geophysics and hydrogeology to establish the chemical variability of groundwater and the pathways connecting coastal aquifers with coastal surface and transitional waters along the west coast of Ireland. We require a PhD student with demonstrable experience in physical hydrogeology to acquire data necessary for the development of conceptual and practical models of recharge, storage and flow in karst regions of the Burren in the west of Ireland. The student will focus on submarine groundwater storage and discharge using physico-chemical parameters, calculations of transit times of water in coastal karstic catchments using natural isotopes, calculations of the flow-time distribution, quantification of event water to the total runoff and identification of ‘hot-spots’ in eastern Galway Bay. Some experience in modelling of groundwater flow regimes would be an advantage. The outcomes of the research project are congruent with the aims of the EU Groundwater Directive.

Continue Reading September 23rd, 2008

Belgium - Catholic University of Leuven PhD Position in Polluted Sites Mapping and Assessment

Department of Envinronmental Sciences and Land Use Planning (MILA)
Université Catholique de Louvain
Louvain La Neuve, Belgium

The Department of Environmental Sciences and Land Use Planning of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) is opening a position for a PhD student in the field of spatial mapping and statistical analysis techniques applied to soil polluted sites assessment, in the framework of the EU FP7 research project MODELPROBE (”Model driven Soil Probing, Site Assessment and Evaluation“).

The PhD student will contribute to the development and application of spatial mapping techniques and statistical analysis techniques with the aim of (i) assessing the performances of various existing in-situ measurement method (geophysics, biology, tree monitoring, etc.), and (ii) applying data fusion techniques for the spatial mapping and delineation of a contaminated area.

The appointment will be for a period of three years, starting October 1, 2008. The candidate should have a MSc Degree in Civil or Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or closely related disciplines. Good knowledge of the Matlab programming language is welcome.

Continue Reading September 22nd, 2008

France - INRA Postdoc Position in Statistical Genetics

18 months postdoc position at The Biometry and Artificial Intelligence Unit of INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research) in Toulouse, France.

The project, funded by the French Research Agency, aims at incorporating linkage disequilibrium into linkage mapping analysis, in order to fine map QTL. It consists in developing statistical methods using linkage disequilibrium for predicting similarity of genitor alleles in a multiple families design, and developing the necessary software tools.

The aim is to attribute, at every locus of the genome, for the alleles of the genitors in the design, (i) a measurement that accurately reflects the identity by descent probability with the ancestral alleles, or (ii) a probable coalescence tree to enable ancestral alleles to be tracked.

Continue Reading September 18th, 2008

United Kingdom - EPSRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theory and Tools for Complex Biological Systems

Research Fellow
Theory and Tools for Complex Biological Systems
Mathematics

£27,466-£33,780

Applications are invited for this EPSRC-funded post doctoral position in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde. The project will develop novel, generic computational and modelling tools, focusing on techniques in computational linear algebra and network science. The work will involve collaboration with statisticians and life scientists. Funding is available for approximately 20 months. An additional one-year extension involving collaboration with a biotech company under the Collaborative Training Account scheme is currently under negotiation. Further information about research activities in mathematics at the University of Strathclyde can be found at http://www.maths.strath.ac.uk/

You will have a PhD in mathematics or a related subject with experience in computational methods. Skills in numerical linear algebra or large scale data mining are desirable.

Continue Reading September 18th, 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

USA - University of Michigan Postdoctoral Positions in Medicinal Chemistry

Three (3) Postdoctoral Positions in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Michigan

We are looking for three (3) outstanding organic / medicinal chemists to join our multidisciplinary drug discovery research laboratory in Professor Shaomeng Wang’s laboratory at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (see http://sw16.im.med.umich.edu for more details).

A Ph.D. degree in organic and/or medicinal chemistry is required. The candidates should have solid training in multi-step organic synthesis and good understanding of medicinal chemistry and drug design. Good oral communication and writing skills are required.

Successful candidates will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge drug discovery projects in a multidisciplinary research environment and will interact with computational chemists, structural biologists, biochemists, cell biologists and in vivo pharmacologists in the laboratory.

Continue Reading September 17th, 2008