International Scholarships

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]

Within the Membrane Technology Group at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the , we have 2 PhD positions for a project, entitled: “Porous Metallic and Ceramic Microreactors” The two PhD students will work in close cooperation. What we offer and what we ask We offer a scientific education on a multidisciplinary subject. The … [More Info]

Description: A PhD Studentship is available within Department of Chemical/Biochemical Engineering at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) to carry out research in the area of fuel-ethanol production from lignocellulosic materials. The successful candidate will be enrolled in the PhD Program in Chemical Engineering at UWO, supervised by Dr. Jesse Zhu, while most of the … [More Info]

Faculty of Informatics at the Masaryk University in Brno invites applicants for three Research Fellowships (postdocs). The first position is focused on Analysis of multidimensional image data acquired using optical microscopy. The post-doc will be involved in the research of image analysis methods suitable for the processing of biomedical image data generated using optical microscopy. … [More Info]

PhD Studentship: Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award Modelling Rupture of CO2 Pipelines Department of Chemical Engineering Reducing carbon dioxide emissions is considered to be the most effective way of tackling the effects of global warming. This will require the large-scale capture, transportation and storage of CO2. In the case of coal fired power generation plants, pressurised … [More Info]

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]

An opening for a Ph.D. student is available at McMaster University with a start date in January 2008. The student will be enrolled in the graduate program in the School of Computational Engineering & Science, or in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and will work with Dr. Protas on problems of PDE-constrained optimization using … [More Info]