Max Planck / Fraunhofer Joint Research Initiative PROBIO The Department of Physical and Chemical Process Engineering (Prof. Dr.-Ing. K. Sundmacher, www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/research/groups/pcp/) at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, Germany, is inviting applications for PhD or Postdoc Position (TVöD E13, former BAT IIa): Modelling and optimisation of biomass-fed fuel cell systems. within the joint research initiative PROBIO of the Max Planck Institute together with two departments of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. The project is designed to develop an efficient technology for converting solid biomass into gases which after multi-step cleaning can be transformed into electricity and high-valued heat using fuel cells. A special focus of our research activities is on model-based process synthesis. The project includes the completion of an already existing library of short-cut models for unit operations, the development of a suitable process supe

PhD Studentship Environmental or Health and Safety Economics Institute of Agri-Food and Land Use School of Biological Sciences (3 years) Supervisors: Professor George Hutchinson, Dr. Claire Cockerill and Dr Danny Campbell. Background: The Institute of Agri-Food and Land Use has a team of 5 Environmental Economists who specialize in environmental and health valuation economics. Another area of our expertise is in the application of economic experiments to issues of environmental, health and safety policy. As a research group we have published widely in these disciplines in journals such as The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Economic Letters and Environmental and Resource Economics. We are partners in the UK Combined Research Councils Centre of Excellence in Public Health Research and the Institute for a Sustainable World at Queens University. Project: We are interested in developing PhD proposals with candidates in the above areas especially proposa

PhD position in Applied Mathematics - Project: Design of new models and techniques for high performance financial applications The University of Antwerp is a knowledge centre with 3.400 employees involved in ground-breaking and innovative research of international standing. The university takes special care to ensure optimum support and supervision of students, and pays constant attention to educational innovation. The University is an autonomous pluralistic institution that is committed to the enhancement of an open, democratic and multicultural society, and it pursues an equal opportunities policy. The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is seeking to fill in the following full time vacancy (m/f): PhD position in Applied Mathematics Assignment: * you prepare a PhD thesis in the domain of Numerical Analysis * you take up a limited teaching duty. Research: The research lies within the FWO group project Design of new models and techniques for high performance financia

The Department of Economics at City University, London, is able to offer a three-year studentship to a candidate who wishes to read for a PhD in Economics starting October 2008. The studentship will consist of full remission of fees for three years plus a subsistence grant of £13,500 per year. In return the successful candidate will be expected to provide up to 50 hours per year of undergraduate class teaching and mark 50 undergraduate coursework scripts. Additional teaching and marking may be undertaken subject to approval of the student’s supervisory panel and will be paid at our normal rates. The areas of interest to the Department are: * Competition and regulation * Development Economics * Econometrics and economic theory * Financial economics * Health economics * History and philosophy of economics * Macroeconomics and international economics For more information about current research activity in the Department, please go to this page , and follow the

Graduate Student Opportunity Location: University of Saskatchewan Academic Program: Department of Geography, or School of Environment and Sustainability Project: We are seeking a M.Sc. student with an interest in water resources and environmental effects assessment in watersheds. You will join a Canada Water Network research team of 8 professors from 6 universities, including 6 graduate students, working together to develop The Healthy River Ecosystem Assessment System (THREATS) for assessing and adaptively managing the cumulative effects of human developments on Canadian freshwaters. The project is based at the University of Saskatchewan and led by Dr. Monique Dube, CRC in Aquatic Ecosystem Health Diagnosis. Start date: September, 2008 (summer start date or availability for summer field work preferred) Funding: fully funded, Canada Water Network For more information contact Bram Noble @ 306-966-1899 or b.noble[ at ]usask.ca

Ph.D.-Scholarships The Faculty of Engineering A number of Ph.D.-scholarships at the Faculty of Engineering will be available as of 1st September 2008. Information about the research areas at the faculty can be found at our homepage: http://www.sdu.dk/tek/ The scholarships may be sought by students who wish to obtain a PhD degree, either without or with a previous Master’s degree, and who have agreed on a PhD project with a supervisor employed at the Faculty of Engineering. For applicants with a relevant Master’s degree, the scholarship will be for three years of study. The applications are evaluated based on a number of criteria: the quality of the applicant (publications, grades, references, etc.), the quality of the project, and the degree of co-financing (by the supervisor, a Ph.D.-school, or the applicant). Special consideration will be given to projects with relation to the strategic research areas of the faculty. However, some scholarships will be based on an open competition amo

A qualitative study of British South Asian Carers’ views of their Children with Developmental Disabilities A collaborative studentship provided by Wolverhampton Primary Care Trust and the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Funding is available for a three-year PhD studentship from October 2008, for a largely qualitative research project which will involve close collaboration between the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham and the Wolverhampton Primary Care Trust. The proposed research will seek to develop an understanding of the views of South Asian parents about their children, and about their developmental disabilities. A detailed, culturally-sensitive, and systematic account of these views will allow us to understand their role in shaping the care of children. The project will allow us to better understand parents access to, and interactions with, service systems. As a result, we will be able to help South Asian carers to use services more effectively,

Research Fellow (PhD position) - Mathematics and Numerics for Inverse Problems At the Department of Mathematics/CIPR a 3-year position as Research Fellow (PhD position) is available within the area of Mathematics and Numerics for Inverse Problems. Work location will be at CIPR. The project, which is financed by the Norwegian Research Council and several energy companies, is collaboration between research groups at CIPR, University of Bergen and CMA, University of Oslo ( http://www.cma.uio.no ). The candidate will participate in an international network of researchers focusing on development of novel computational methods for solving inverse problems. Such methods are very important within, for example, modelling and remote monitoring of flows in petroleum reservoirs and modelling and remote monitoring of geological storage of CO2. The candidate will focus in particular on development and analysis of inversion methods based on more than one data type. We seek a candidate with backgroun