International Scholarships

The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for the “Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques” in Jena, Germany, offers 15 PhD positions in molecular biology, ecology, entomology, microbiology, (bio)-chemistry, neuroethology or bioinformatics beginning in January 2009. The Research School is the first graduate school worldwide where modern chemical and molecular techniques are … [More Info]

International Max Planck Research School “Ecological Interactions” Project 7: How do wood-feeding insects digest their diet? Supervisors: Prof. Jonathan Gershenzon, Dr. Axel Schmidt, Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth, MPI-CE Wood-feeding insects are sometimes known to use microbial symbionts present in their guts to help in digestion and nutrient mobilization. However, nothing is known about how such insects … [More Info]

2 PhD-POSITIONS in PLANT ECOLOGY and PLANT PATHOLOGY at Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany We advertise two open PhD-positions (BAT IIa/2) within the sub-projects A6 and B5 of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 607) “Growth and Parasite Defence” funded by the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft (DFG) since 1998. Ambitious candidates with a strong background/interest in modeling approaches, … [More Info]

PhD Fellowship in Chemical Ecology and Nematology at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) This PhD project is hosted by the Chemical Ecology Group and the Nematology Group (www.ice3.se) Chemical communication in the rhizosphere is a current frontier in biology. Volatiles released aboveground from green plants are known to mediate interactions with other plants, microorganisms … [More Info]

The Optimization in Engineering Center OPTEC at K.U. Leuven (Belgium) invites highly motivated young interdisciplinary researchers with a solid background in numerical mathematics and computer science to apply for one of the following four PhD positions: I) Sequential Convex Programming Algorithms for Nonlinear Semidefinite Programming II) Large Scale and PDE Constrained Real-Time Optimization Algorithms III) … [More Info]

The Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL/ETHL/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), Switzerland will be created on July 1st, 2007 under the direction of Professor Xile Hu. The main goal of the laboratory is to develop transition metal based … [More Info]

The Chemical Biology Centre, a joint venture of Imperial College London, The Institute of Cancer Research and the London Research Institute of Cancer Research UK, is seeking 9 postgraduate students starting in October 2007 to work on a series of related problems in quantitative chemical/molecular biology. PhD students will qualify for a funded Masters in … [More Info]