Chalmers is a partner in the HiPEAC European Network of Excellence.

The European ERA (Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures) project studies tradeoffs among reconfigurability, performance, and power within the context of heterogeneous, multi-core systems. Chalmers efforts address the balance between performance and power consumption (at all levels), and reconfigurable memory hierarchy design, in particular. We are recruiting for one PhD position.
Job description

The appointee must also have been admitted to Chalmers Doctoral Programme. PhD student positions are limited to five years and will then normally include 20% departmental work, mostly teaching duties. Admission and employment are regulated by Chalmers’s “Rules of Procedure for Doctoral Programmes”, §4 and §5. Salary follows the agreement for PhD student positions.

Work start should be as soon as possible.

Required qualifications
Applicants shall have a master’s Degree or equivalent (Sw. civilingenjörsexamen) in Computer Engineering or related discipline. As for all PhD studies, a genuine interest and curiosity in the subject matter and excellent analytical and communication skills (in speaking and in writing) are required. Further, since the research work normally involves developing tools to model detailed computer architectures/systems, good mathematics and programming skills are important. Successful candidates will have a profound interest in computer architecture and a foundation in design principles of both processors and memory systems. Experience with operating systems and compilers is a plus.
Application procedure

The application shall be written in English and include the following items:

• An application of a maximum of one A4 page containing your specific qualifications for the position
• Attested copies of education certificates, including grade reports and other documents
• Curriculum Vitae
• Letters of recommendation and name of reference persons (optional)

The application shall be sent electronically as pdf or zipped documents. Please use the button at the foot of the page to reach the application form.

If any material is not available electronically or cannot be transferred to pdf format, the material can be sent as a hard copy to Registrar. The applicants name and the reference number (2010/188) must be written on the first page of the application.

Address:
Registrar
Chalmers University of Technology
SE-412 96 Göteborg
Sweden

Further information on the PhD position can be obtained from:
Associate Professor Sally A. McKee (http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~mckee)
E-mail: mckee@chalmers.se

Vice Head of Department, Graduate Education: Associate Professor Jan Jonsson
E-mail: janjo@chalmers.se
Phone: +46 31 772 5220

Director of Postgraduate Studies: Associate Professor Koen Lindström Claessen
E-mail: koen@chalmers.se
Phone: +46 31 772 5424

Applicants should have a keen interest in one or more of the following areas: Wireless Sensor Networks, Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and Middleware for Embedded Systems. Applicants would be expected to exhibit the appropriate Software Engineering skills, been able to express clearly their research in a written and spoken form and be ambitious and highly motivated.

Studentships would be in the form of a tax free scholarship and fee payment of circa €25,000 per annum for a 3 year period. Successful applicants would join an internationally recognized research centre (www.clarity-centre.org) and a very active research group in the Intelligent Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks area with a strong publication and research grant procurement culture.

Interested candidates should send a detailed curriculum vitae, letter of application, copies of relevant university transcripts and for non native English speakers evidence of English Language competence (TOEFL, IELTS). These should be addressed to

Application Deadline : 13 November 2010

Professor Gregory O’Hare,
CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies,
School of Computer Science & Informatics,
University College Dublin (UCD) Belfield,
Dublin 4, Ireland.

Applicants will be received on an on-going basis until such time as the posts are filled. These positions are available immediately or as soon thereafter as possible.

The Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience is the first international neuroscience Graduate School was established at the University of Tübingen in 1999. In the future, three Schools will provide research oriented career tracks – leading to a master or doctoral degree – that provide an ideal preparation for a career in science and academia. The three graduate programs will complement one another at best and, thus, provide a markedly broad sprectrum of neuroscience research and training opportunities in Tübingen. Teaching is entirely in English.

Application Scholarships Fees

• Entry requirements: BSc for master program; MSc, Diploma or MD for doctoral program.
• Application deadlines: January 15 for master program. Doctoral students may apply throughout the year.
• The selection procedure for a place on the master program is three stepped:
  • written application,
  • subject test,
  • interview
• Students interested in a doctoral project may contact research groups of their interest directly.
• Scholarships are available for excellent international students. Doctoral students are generally funded through research grants.
• Tuition fees for master students amount to 610 Euros per month. Doctoral students are exempted

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Contact Address:
Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience
International Max Planck Research School
University of Tübingen
Österbergstr. 3
72074 Tübingen – Germany
neuro.school@uni-tuebingen.de

The program is scheduled to start in winter term 2011/12 (the application deadline will be January 15, 2011).

The Program, taught entirely in English, provides outstanding training for study and research in the various fields of economics. It has a long and consolidated tradition of post-graduate teaching and research in both theoretical and applied economics. Since its inception, more than one hundred students have successfully completed the PhD Program, and many of them are working in leading academic and non-academic, prestigious institutions like the Federal Reserve, the European Commission, the United Nations, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Italy.

The first year of the PhD Program is devoted mainly to advanced course work in mathematics for economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics and a considerable number of frontier state-of-the-art research topics. Full time research is pursued over the following two (or exceptionally three) years, during which each student must write his or her thesis. Students are encouraged and financially supported to carry out part of their studies at leading foreign universities in order to allow them to exchange and compare ideas on a broader scale.

Scholarships and Deadlines

• Three merit based scholarships will be awarded to the most outstanding students.
• Applications must be sent by September 18th.
• Applicants will be informed of the outcome at the latest by September 30, 2009.

Applications and information
To apply, please read the Call for Application for Academic Year 2010-2011 available at www.unicatt.it/phdeconomics. Application forms can be downloaded at: http://milano.unicatt.it/3155.html

Contact:
Via Lanzone, 29 20123 Milano
Tel. 02 7234 2992 – 02 7234 5619
Fax 02 7209 5744
For questions please contact Professor Gerd Weinrich, Director of the PhD Program in Economics, at dottorato.economia@unicatt.it

The priority area is scholarships for Ph.D. studies. Ph.D. scholars register at a German University, although their field research can be conducted in Africa.

Ph.D. scholarships are granted for up to 3,5 years (including 6 months German language training) and for all subjects.

KAAD provides support for individuals, i.e. usually scholars cannot be accompanied by their families.

Applications for Master-programs in Germany will be considered primarily for candidates whose professional experience and objectives reveal that a Masters-degree, and not a Ph.D., is the final goal of their higher education (’terminal Master’).

If someone changes his/her mind after the Master-program and wishes to apply for a Ph.D.-scholarship, he/she must obtain an additional three years of relevant work experience in Africa first.

Rare exceptions from this rule may be allowed for female candidates.

For available Master courses in Germany please check: http://www.daad.de/deutschland/studium/idp/04709.en.html(don’t specify ‘language’).

After selecting the program(s) you should contact the course coordinator and apply for (at least provisional) admission.

Applications at Masters level may also be consideredfor programs in Ghana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe (’in-country scholarships’).

Scholars who pursued Master-studies in one of these partner countries under a KAAD Scholarship are entitled to compete for aPh.D.-scholarship for Germany at any time after their Master’s degree (’second scholarships’).

Masters and PhD Scholarships Eligibility:

• Significant social and religious commitment: A clear preference is given to catholic (or Ethiopian orthodox) applicants.
  The ideal candidate should be creative, with a distinguished personal integrity and leadership qualities.
• Academic excellence: A university degree (Bachelor, Master) with very good results (minimum: ‘2nd class upper’ with an average grade of B or above, ‘bien’, CGPA of 3.2/4.0, or equivalent results).
• Upper age limits for Master’s level and doctorates are 32 and 35 years, respectively.

Applicants who don’t receive a reply from KAAD within 8 weeks have not been shortlisted for the next step of the preselection.

Only inquiries containing the information asked for in the Catholic Academic Exchange Service website can beanswered.

Contact:
Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst
Hausdorffstr. 151
53129 Bonn
+49 228 917580
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Active in the field of pancreas and islet development, electrophysiology, cell adhesion and migration, host-pathogen interactions as well as innovative HIV drug development the department recruits candidates to fill the following positions:

• PhD or postdoc // Host-pathogen interactions: the Dictyostelium model;
  Current Opinion in Microbiology, 11: 271-76 (2008).
• PhD or postdoc // Intracellular trafficking of voltage-gated proton channels; J. Exp. Med 207:129-39 (2010).
  Postdoc // Intracellular trafficking of CCR5 and inhibitory mechanisms of novel HIV entry inhibitors; Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105, 17706-17711 (2008).
• Postdoc // Cell reprogramming and regeneration in the adult pancreas;
  Nature 464: 1149-54 (2010).
• PhD // Analysis of the integrin-dependent adhesion system in muscle;
  J. Cell Biol. 187, 715-731 (2009).

Interested candidates should submit their application not later than 15th of September 2010 to Bernhard.Wehrle-Haller@unige.ch.

Knowledge of English (but not French) is mandatory. Applications should include a letter of motivation indicating preferred choices, a CV and 2 references. After an initial screening, candidates will be contacted directly. Positions can be occupied as early as November 2010.

Application Deadline : 15 September 2010

The scholarships are offered in collaboration with Schlumberger Cambridge Research Limited and are intended for students from developing countries who are pursuing courses of research leading to the degree of PhD at University of Cambridge.

Field of study:
Any PhD research programme in technological and scientific subjects offered at the University

Number of Scholarships:
One scholarship offered annually

Target group:
The scholarships are intended for students from developing countries.

Scholarship value/inclusions:
The scholarship will normally cover up to:
the University Composition Fee at the appropriate rate approved

College fees
a maintenance allowance sufficient for a single student

Eligibility:
Applicants must be from a developing country and must be admitted to Cambridge through the University’s normal academic procedures. They must apply to a PhD research programme in technological and scientific subjects offered at the University.

He/she must have a first class or high second class honours degree, or its equivalent, from a recognised
university. Those who are not native speakers of English are required by the Board of Graduate Studies to provide the results of an English language test and to meet the minimum standard of proficiency required for admission to Cambridge (see ‘Entry requirements‘)

Application instructions:
First submit the on-line GRADSAF form at least two weeks before the course deadline and then submit the hard
copy supporting documents so they arrive in Cambridge no later than the course deadline. For non-UK students, your GRADSAF is also your application to the Cambridge Trusts if you are made an offer to study.

Students CAN apply for funding before securing an offer of study and indeed most students apply for admission and apply for funding concurrently. All candidates are advised to apply as early as possible after the opening date of 1 September 2010 for admission and funding. Applications are accepted until 15 December 2010

It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply for this scholarship.

Contact information:
Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and Cambridge Overseas Trust
PO Box 252
Cambridge
CB2 1TQ
Website: www.cambridgetrusts.org
Email: info@overseastrusts.cam.ac.uk
Fax: + 44 (0)1223 760618 (CCT/COT)

Website

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/gsprospectus/funding/overseas/countries/schlumberger.html

The Programme consists in the following curricula:

• System Physiology. Experimental and Clinical
• Physiological Genomics and Molecular Medicine

Admission Requirements

• possession of a Master of Science (MSc) degree (or equivalent);
• to be under 35 years of age on September 30, 2010.

Positions and grants

• 2 positions with 2 fellowships (amounting to € 14.500 per year + free meals at school’s canteen + Campus facilities) );
• the School may also admit eligible candidates without grants up to a maximum number of 2 posts. They will take part in the Programme at their own expenses but they will not have to pay any tuition fee.

Deadlines

• applications must be submitted online by September 30, 2010 www.sssup.it/phdapplicationonline ;
• hardcopy of the application and the must reach (regardless the forwarding date) the “Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Divisione Formazione Universitaria e alla Ricerca, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33 – 56127 Pisa” by October 11, 2010 (please, write the notice “Application PhD in Innovative Strategies in Biomedical research on the envelope).

Application and attachments
Enclosures to the hard copy of the applications:

• the copy of the candidate’s Passport,
• two copies of Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum (please use the EU model);
• the academic record with the full list of courses and grades (in English, in French, in German, in Spanish or in Italian);
• the certificates of knowledge of English language
• one copy of their Master degree thesis and one copy of any document and/or publication that the candidate deems suitable;
• two copies of a Research Project, of no more than 3,000 words, which will describe the research activities that applicants would like to perform during the PhD course. The Research Project should include: 1) a title; 2) the scientific premises and the relevant bibliography; 3) the aim and expectations of the research; 4) the experimental methods and data analysis methods which will be used, where required;
• at least two Reference Letters written by scholars who have supervised the applicant’s work during his/her university studies;
• a numbered list of documents attached.

Selection of applicants
Assessment of the titles: the submitted documents and publications, including the CV, and the Research Project.

Beginning of the PhD Programme:
The PhD Programme will start on January 20, 2011

Information
email: infophd@sssup.it
tel.: +39.050.883.250/383
Attached documents:
Call for applications 2010-2011 – Non EU Citizens (file pdf, 594 Kb)
Application Deadline : 30 September 2010

Protein Structure and Function, Synthetic Biology and Signalling, Neurosciences, Immunology/Virology, Molecular Medicine, Developmental Biology and Molecular Plant Sciences

Presently the school counts 72 PhD students at different stages of their doctoral work.

The entire program is run in English. Knowledge of German is not necessary.

We expect:

• an excellent recent university degree: M.Sc. or German diploma (candidates about to obtain such a degree are welcome to apply).
• motivation & interest to join one of the interdisciplinary research areas of the Graduate School
• communication skills in English
• interest and creativity to shape your own thesis project and select your thesis committee

We offer:

• a doctoral fellowship or a salary
• a high-profile research environment
• an exchange program with universities and industry around the world
• an efficient supervision and mentoring program
• courses in novel technologies and soft skills
• an interdisciplinary teaching program
• a campus in the center of the city with lecture rooms, social & guest rooms

If you are interested, go to our homepage: www.sgbm.uni-freiburg.de . Deadline for registration: August 8, 2010. Deadline for submission of applications: August 15, 2010. Decisions will be communicated to applicants in mid November 2010 and selected applicants will be able to start in January 2011.

Application Deadline : 8 August 2010

Contact:
Albertstraße 19A
79 104 Freiburg
Germany
Telephone: 0049 761 203 9636
Fax: 0049 761 203 9640
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EVIMalaR is a collaborative research Network of Excellence, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the University of Glasgow. It currently engages 49 Principal Investigators from 34 institutions in Europe (29) and malaria endemic countries (5). The consortium conducts research on malaria parasites and their interactions with both mammalian hosts and mosquito vectors. EVIMalaR’s International PhD Programme aims to train talented young scientists from both North and South in malaria research, with emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches. It thus offers a unique opportunity for students to become engaged in malaria research in world-leading malaria research institutions.

Training of the future EVIMalaR students is conducted through the virtual European Malaria Graduate School, which is organized and operated in collaboration with the EMBL and the Heidelberg University.

Applications are invited for studentships (funded for a maximum of 3.5 years) linked to collaborative research projects, each supervised by two or more principle investigators from different countries. Applicants should hold the necessary qualifications entitling them to undertake a PhD study in their host country, and should possess a high standard of written and spoken English.

Applications are to be submitted online via www.evimalar.org
and are due by 6 September 2010.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to EMBL, Heidelberg, on 3-5 December 2010, for interviews with the Admissions Committee. Successful candidates should be available to start in April 2010 to attend the 2-week PhD Core Course in Heidelberg.

Application Deadline : 6 September 2010

Contact:
Evimalar Office
11 the Square
University of Glasgow
University Avenue
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tel: 00 44 (0) 141 330 5948/7351
Fax: 00 44 (0) 141 330 7348
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