International Scholarships

The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” at the University of Heidelberg is offering; 2 PhD scholarships within the Junior Research Group “Asymmetries in Cultural Information Flows: Europe and South Asia in the Global Information Network since the Nineteenth Century”. The PhD students will be expected … [More Info]

The Department of Economics at the University of Konstanz (Germany) offers positions as Research/Teaching Assistants at the Chair of Economic Theory (Professor Leo Kaas). The positions last for a period of three years and start October 1st 2008. The successful candidates are expected to participate in a research project on “Growth and volatility with endogenous … [More Info]

The Ifo Institute (www.ifo.de) is one of the leading economic research institutes in Germany and member of the Leibniz Association. Its international reputation is based on its research, service and policy advice, and on its German and international economic surveys. As part of the CESifo Group, Ifo works in close cooperation with the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of … [More Info]

Christian-Albrechts-University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Kiel (Germany) At the Department of Agricultural Economics of the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel the following positions have to be filled as soon as possible: 4 research positions salary according to BAT IIa (75% for junior researchers) the positions are limited for 2 years with the possibility of extension. Moreover, researchers … [More Info]

The Institute for Heat and Fuel Technology at Technical University Braunschweig seeks a Research Assistant/Ph.D. student (E13 TV-L, formerly BAT IIa) The position is vacant in the Integrated Systems group (M. Mönnigmann). Our research focuses on the development and application of numerical methods for the modeling, simulation, and optimization of nonlinear dynamical systems in the … [More Info]

PhD or Postdoc position for meteorological modelling We are currently seeking a scientist for meso/microscale simulations. The work is part of the DFG priority programme ‘Quantitative precipitation forecast’ (http://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/projekte/SPPMeteo). The main goal of the project is to examine the influence of the orography and surface conditions associated with mesoscale mountains for convection. The simulations will … [More Info]

A position for a PhD student is available in the IMPETUS project (An integrated approach to the efficient management of scarce water resources in West Africa). Globally we are confronted with increasing scarcity of water resources in terms of quantity and quality. Water use efficiency must be increased through improved crop and irrigation management in … [More Info]