International Scholarships

The DFG Research Center / Excellence Cluster “The Ocean in the Earth System” (MARUM) at the University of Bremen, Germany, has established a competitive and highly selective program for MARUM Fellowship awards.Up to two fellowships will be awarded in this round in the general areas of marine geology, paleoceanography, marine biogeochemistry, marine geophysics and marine … [More Info]

IMPRS-ESM PhD Program: Call for 2008 now open The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), located in Hamburg, Germany, offers fellowships to outstanding students interested in Earth system research. Doctoral students of the IMPRS-ESM contribute to the development, application, and evaluation of a spectrum of Earth system models at different temporal … [More Info]

The research group “Development and Disease” (Prof. Dr. Stefan Mundlos) at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics / Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin offers a position for a PhD-Student (BAT IIa/2) The position is available from April 2007 until June 2009 (extension until December 2010 envisaged). Our research focuses on the … [More Info]

PhD Fellowships Hamburg University The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), located in Hamburg, Germany, offers fellowships to outstanding students interested in Earth system research. Doctoral students of the IMPRS-ESM contribute to the development, application, and evaluation of a spectrum of Earth system models at different temporal and spatial scales, including … [More Info]

Vision Systems Physiology group (http://ltl.tkk.fi/wiki/BRU/Vision_Systems_Physiology) has funding available for a PhD or a postdoctoral student. Earlier experience about visual system or matlab programming would be helpful. We are part of Brain Research Unit at Low Temperature Laboratory in Helsinki University of Technology. The work would target cortical physiology with brain imaging and aim to understand … [More Info]

The Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) is funded by the German Excellence Initiative. It conceptionally combines different research areas (microbial communities, interactions with plant, animal and human hosts and environmental interactions) to a comprehensive picture of microbial communication (www.jsmc.uni-jena.de). JSMC is an ambitious Graduate School prospectively comprising 150 PhD students who will be educated … [More Info]

Subject Time and frequency have a privileged role in physics and applications because they are the most precisely measured physical quantities. The wrist watch, for example, is the only artifact accurate within 1E-5 – 1E-6 at a cost affordable to all consumers. Atomic clocks exhibit the amazing accuracy of 1E-15, and a stability better by … [More Info]