FSC awards up to 29 scholarships for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers for a period of 4 to 36 months, starting April 15, 2010. The Center wishes to attract outstanding PhD students and postdoctoral fellows pursuing a career in academia or development collaboration. The scholarships aim at increasing their previously gained scientific knowledge and skills relevant to food security related issues. Furthermore, FSC aims at establishing an active, long-lasting collaboration with the supported researchers and their home institutions.

FSC offers three categories of scholarships:

• Sandwich scholarships for PhD students (6 months)
• Research scholarships for visiting postdoctoral researchers (4 months)
• Excellence scholarships for FSC-supported PhD program “Young Excellence School” (36 months)

In category 1 and 2, FSC scholarships will support researchers from developing countries to conduct their research either at the University of Hohenheim (South – North) or at a national or international research institute in a developing country, for instance one of the centers of the CGIAR (South – South). There are few scholarships for students and postdoctoral researchers of the University of Hohenheim to visit a research institute in a developing country (North – South).

The application deadline for all scholarships in category 1 and 2 is January 30, 2010. Selection is carried out on a competitive basis and the decisions will be communicated up to March 16, 2010. Regarding the details of the different scholarships, the application process and the requirements, please consult FSC’s webpage (www.foodsecurity.de ). Please read the information carefully before you apply. Only complete applications will be considered.

In category 3, FSC is supporting excellent PhD students to participate in the FSC-supported PhD program at the University of Hohenheim, mainly students from developing countries, but few scholarships are as well provided to students from Germany. The detailed application information for the scholarships of this category will be posted on FSC’s webpage end of January 2010; the PhD program will start in August 2010.

COntact:
Visiting Address:
Food Security Center
University of Hohenheim
Wollgrasweg 43
70599 Stuttgart, Germany
Phone :+49 711 45924455
Fax :+49 711 45924456
E-mail :fsc@uni-hohenheim.de
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PhD scholarships include a monthly stipend of approximately €1.100 and are offered for one year with the possibility of two extensions, each of a year. The postdoctoral scholarship, with a monthly stipend of about €1.500, is limited to two years. All scholarships start on 01st October, 2010.

Acceptance of a scholarship requires participation in the study programme and the wide-ranging events offered by the GCSC, as well as active involvement in at least one GCSC graduate research group. PhD scholarship holders must register as PhD students at Justus Liebig University. There are no tuition fees for doctoral students at JLU, except for an enrolment fee of approximately €200 per semester. All scholarship holders are expected to take up residency in or near Giessen.

Eligibility
We invite applications contributing to the study of culture in various historical contexts as well as those analyzing contemporary phenomena. The GCSC encourages applications from graduate students who have or expect to obtain a first or upper second class honours M.A.-degree (or equivalent) in one of the GCSC’s academic subjects* or in the arts/humanities, cultural studies, or social sciences. Candidates applying for a post-doctoral scholarship should hold a PhD in the arts/humanities, cultural studies, or social sciences, have an excellent academic record, and pursue a research project relevant to the GCSC’s research areas*. Fluency in either English or German is required.

Application Procedure and Deadline
The main selection criteria are the candidates’ academic qualification, the academic quality of the research proposal and the suitability of the project for the GCSC’s research programme. Short-listed candidates will be invited to a 30-minute interview. The application deadline is March 1st, 2010 (date of receipt). All applications (including an application form and further documents as stated on the GCSC-website) have to be submitted online. Please find all information on the two-stage application procedure on our website at http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/application.

If you have any questions concerning your application, please contact us at gcsc-application@uni-giessen.de. On 25th January 2010, the GCSC will host an Information Day at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Alter Steinbacher Weg 38, 35394 Giessen. The Information Day gives potential applicants the opportunity to meet the staff and students involved in the doctoral programme. You will also have the chance to obtain more information on the research areas and academic objectives of the GCSC, the wide range of interdisciplinary courses, colloquia, and conferences, the research support on offer, our international networks and partner institutions, as well as on publishing and funding opportunities available to GCSC-members. To register for the Information Day, please visit our website. *) see http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de or http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/research
Ann Van de Veire
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture
0049641-9930041
0049641-9930049
Email: ann.van-de-veire@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
Visit the website at http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/application
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Effective January 2010, the Database Systems Chair (Prof. Dr. Torsten Grust) at the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute for Computer Science of Universität Tübingen (Germany), opens a position for a Research Assistant (PhD student or Postdoc level, full-time) in an interdisciplinary research project.

Declarative Languages for the Exploration of Large Network Data
In collaboration with colleagues in the cognitive and social sciences as well psychology we are working on new approaches to the analysis of, potentially huge, network data. We are particularly interested in network structures that result from communication and interaction on the Web 2.0 (social networks, discussion boards, collaborative tagging sites, wikis, etc.).

To enable non-computer scientists to creatively work with such huge data sets, this project will develop “declarative database languages for the exploration and analysis of network data structures”.

Your work will build on our group’s prior research efforts: the database-supported evaluation of XQuery (pathfinder-xquery.org, monetdb-xquery.org), LINQ (ferry-lang.org), and modern scripting languages (e.g., Ruby). Further relevant technology includes database distribution and MapReduce (offline evaluation of non-local social network properties) or the import of external network data via, e.g., Google’s OpenSocial API or RSS feeds.

Requirements
We are looking forward to grow our team and welcome applications of highly motivated candidates with an excellent university degree (Master in Computer Science or a closely related field) who are willing to support our upcoming research efforts. We expect you to be open for collaboration with non-computer scientists. Last but not least, we hope that you like systems building as much as we do.

The position has no teaching obligations — if you would like to get involved with teaching nevertheless, please let us know.
Good knowledge of German as well as English (research and publication) are a requirement.
Job Details and Application

Successful candidates will sign a contract with the Universität Tübingen under the current regulations applicable to employees in Public Service (TVÖD). This is a three-year full-time position.

You will be working in Tübingen, the traditional university town in the Neckar valley (Stuttgart region). Our group offers an informal, open, and fun working environment.

Universität Tübingen aims at increasing the number of female employees and thus especially welcomes applications of female candidates.

Applications of disabled candidates will be given priority, depending on their suitability.
Please send your complete application in PDF format via e-mail to Prof. Dr. Torsten Grust. The deadline for applications is November 30, 2009.

Contact:
Universität Tübingen
Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik
Lehrstuhl für Datenbanksysteme
Sand 13
72076 Tübingen
Germany
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The Karl Mannheim Chair for Cultural Studies (Professor Nico Stehr Ph.D. FRSC) invites applications for the following position:

Postdoctoral Scholarship in Cultural Studies (Sociology)

We award a one-year-scholarship to an outstanding individual to contribute to research in one of the following areas of strength of the chair: Modern societies as knowledge societies, science studies, consumption, climate and society.

Starting date is September 2009. Please submit a letter of interest, vitae, copies of two publications and the names of two potential referees. Closing date is July 6 with interviews likely to take place late July/early August 2009.

Electronic applications for the Postdoctoral Scholarship should be addressed to Dr. Marian Adolf: marian.adolf@zeppelin-university.de.
Zeppelin University gGmbH
Am Seemooser Horn 20 – D – 88045 Friedrichshafen
www.zeppelin-university.de

2128077-05

The Fuel Cells and Solid State Chemistry Department at Risø DTU is among the world’s research leaders in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) – a technology for clean and efficient conversion of chemical energy (in the form of, e.g., natural gas, hydrogen, biogas, ammonia or methanol) into electricity and heat. In addition we have activities within a number of related topics in functional ceramics, including high-temperature electrolysis, oxygen and hydrogen separation membranes, electrochemical flue gas purification and magnetic refrigeration.

Job description
You will be involved in the development of the next generation of fuel cells that are mechanically supported by a porous metal support. This metal support is currently formed by conventional shaping technique using atomised metal powder, and then consolidated by high temperature treatment in reducing atmosphere. Your work will be to optimise the metal support by tailoring its composition, the shaping parameters as well as the sintering conditions. A focus will be the correlation between the manufacturing parameters and the mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of the support.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in engineering, materials science, chemistry, geology, physics or similar
• experience with powder metallurgy and sintering
  preferably experience within one or more of the following areas: ceramic shaping techniques such as tape casting and screen printing, database, corrosion of metals, mechanical properties, or advanced microscopy
• ability to work independently, to plan and carry out complicated tasks, and to be a part of a large, dynamical group
• good communication skills in English, both written and spoken

We offer
We offer an exciting and challenging job in an international environment. Good possibilities for professional and personal growth. A family friendly organisation with flexible working hours.

Application
We must have your online application by 24 August 2008. Please open the link “apply online” and fill in the application form and attach your application and CV.

Further information
Please contact acting Head of Program Peter Vang Hendriksen, +45 4677 5725, for further information.
Additional information about Risø DTU and the Fuel Cells and Solid State Chemistry Department can be found on www.risoe.dtu.dk.

http://www.dtu.dk/English/About_DTU/vacancies.aspx?guid=22588097

The candidates are expected to develop PhD or Post-doctoral projects within the Project C4’s research focus: This project addresses the fast growing sector of medical and wellness tourism in India, and attempts to understand the ways by which India is promoted as a global health care destination. Further information on the project can be found here.

Applicants for the PhD Scholarships are required to hold a Masters degree or equivalent for less than a year. Applicants for the post-doctoral scholarships are required to hold a PhD since no longer than three years. The fellowships are opened to scholars in anthropology, cultural geography and cultural economy. The subject can be explored from the perspectives developed in the social studies of medicine and/or in migration studies. The PhD projects should have their primary focus on biomedical tourism and biomedical health care. The Post-doctoral projects should cover either medical or wellness tourism.

The scholarships will start on 1st June 2009 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Deadline: Applications should be submitted by April 15th 2009. Interviews will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Please send your application by email to Laurent Pordié, Research Group Leader (C4), Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe”, at pordie@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de.

For detailed information please refer to the full job announcement (pdf, 33 KB).

The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” at the University of Heidelberg is offering one Post-Doc position and three PhD scholarships within the project “Hidden grammars of Transculturality – Migrations of Encyclopaedic Knowledge and Power”, Research Area “History and Historicities”.

The project “Hidden Grammars” focuses on encyclopaedia as tools of knowledge administration. While they appear as stable forms reflecting a univalent canon, they may become catalysts of change not just in translation. Idealized self-descriptions call them “universal and all-encompassing,” but they are knowledge containers constrained by the particular cultural and historical circumstances of their own creation.

Probing into questions of readership, production processes and visions of self and other, by studying elements crucial in showing cultural and power asymmetries such as gender, illustrations and biographical writing and their role in travelling and stationary encyclopedia in Europe and Asia, we hope to be able to reconstruct the peculiar «mentalités» which made possible the creation and favourable reception of some encyclopaedia but not others. In analysing encyclopaedia as global source material, we would like to re-evaluate them not as mere products of book history but as important social agents in the making of historicities between Asia and Europe. Further information on the encyclopaedia project can be found here.

Research in this project will be organised in joint research teams, where both Asian and European language competence is always available, either as a form of cooperation between two persons or, if possible when available as one person with language competence in different fields. Ideally, positions would be given to specialists in 4 regions (China, Japan, India, Europe) who would each work on at least 2 of the 3 research foci (gender, biographies, illustrations).

Deadline: All positions are open until filled, jobs will start April 1st or as soon as possible thereafter. They are awarded for 2 years with possibility of renewal for another year.

Please send your CV, copies of university degrees, and a draft of your post-doc project/PhD projects outline (max. 2 pages) in electronic form to Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren (m.herren@urz.uni-heidelberg.de) and Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler (bmittler@sino.uni-heidelberg.de).

Please also refer to the full job announcement (pdf, 30 KB).

The Jena Graduate School is supported by the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, the School of Economics and Business Administration, and the Max Planck Institute of Economics. The common research approach within the GSBC is interdisciplinary oriented and addresses the analyses of human behaviour with respect to social and economic change.

We are particularly interested in the analysis of individual as well as collective behaviour and decisions that lead to change, or adapt and even resist to change at the level of individuals, groups, industries, regions and countries. Our major concerns are the dynamics of these behaviours and/or decisions and their interrelatedness, as well as the underlying, often feedback driven, mechanisms of change. We investigate these phenomena from different disciplinary angles, which taken together provide a better understanding of social and economic change. Methods include analytical models, controlled experiments, empirical and field studies and historical investigations.

From applicants we expect a sustained research interest in one of the following four interdisciplinary research areas:

• Responses to accelerated change
• Innovation as intended change
• Changing social and economic contexts and changing identities
• Change across the lifespan

For further information on the research programme as well as on the application requirements please visit www.gsbc.uni-jena.de.

Fellowships start any time (Deadline for application: March 31st, 2009). The Post-Doc scholarships include funding for 2 years. The language of the GSBC is English.

The job advertisements and the application form are available at http://www.gsbc.uni-jena.de/index.php?id=9. For further questions please contact Kristina von Rhein: kristina.von-rhein@uni-jena.de.

3 Postdoc positions are now available for collaborative projects between large chemical industries and Center for Sustainable and Green Chemistry (www.csg.dtu.dk). The projects concern the development of new catalysts and process designs for important bulk chemical production. The projects will involve catalysis, materials, separations, synthesis and process engineering. The positions are immediately available for highly qualified candidates.

The Postdoc positions will initially be for one year with the possibility of prolongation. Candidates should have a master’s degree in engineering or a similar degree and academic qualifications equivalent to the PhD level.

The salary and appointment terms are negotiated in accordance with the current collective agreement for Danish University faculty members.

For further information please contact Professor Claus Hviid Christensen, chc@kemi.dtu.dk, tel: +45 45 25 24 02.

Application
If you are interested, please send your application including a CV, diploma, list of publications and a list of references or letter of recommendation, by email or letter to:
Professor Claus Hviid Christensen,
Department of Chemistry, Building 206
Technical University of Denmark
DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby
Denmark
chc@kemi.dtu.dk.

Deadline for the application is: March 28, 2008 at 12.00 noon.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.
http://www.dtu.dk/English/About_DTU/vacancies.aspx?guid=22301659

In a first project phase, with the help of a microsatellite-based procedure, regions of the honey bee genome which are responsible for the detection and removal of Varroa-infested pupae from brood cells could be identified. Within the posted project a fine-mapping of the relevant genome regions and an isolation of possible candidate genes is to be carried out by applying SNP analysis. In addition, a concept concerning genomic selection for disease resistance in honey bees is to be established.

Job description, Post Doc Position (TV-L Ost, E 13)
Steering the team including one doctoral candidate and a technical staff member. Coordination of studies on the hygienic behaviour of honeybee workers towards Varroa-infested brood cells and establishing microarray based SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) analysis.

Requirements:

• University degree and PhD in biology/biochemistry /agriculture or veterinary medicine.
• Comprehensive understanding of the application of methods in molecular genetics and bioinformatics.
• Cooperation with other groups of the house and various cooperation partners.
• Proactive individual, team player, good organisational skills.

Job description, PhD Student position (TV-L Ost, E 13/2)
Development of theoretical fundamentals and practical application of genomic selection in the honey bee.

Requirements:

• University degree in bioinformatics/biology/agriculture or veterinary medicine.
• Strong background in statistics and bioinformatics.
• Profound understanding of molecular biology.
• Thorough knowledge of array technology and of the establishment of data banks.

Applications including the usual documents will be considered until the 15th of November 2008 and should be sent to:
Laenderinstitut fuer Bienenkunde Hohen Neuendorf e.V.
Prof. Dr. K. Bienefeld
Friedrich Engels Str. 32, 16540 Hohen Neuendorf
northern peripheral area of Berlin)
E-Mail: Kaspar.Bienefeld@rz.hu-berlin.de,
Internet: www.honigbiene.de
Phone: +49 (0)3303/2938-30.