International Scholarships

Opportunities exist for motivated graduates to develop their research skills further in a variety of innovative food research projects based at the Moorepark Food Research Centre, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland. The laboratories are well equipped and the prospective students will have access to state-of-the-art research equipment and experienced supervisors. There are currently four studentships available … [More Info]

The Department of Food Biosciences at the University of Reading has been awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate PhD studentship for research within the remit of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The aim of the studentship is to enable outstanding students from India, China, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, Russia and the developing … [More Info]

The Opportunity: A M.Sc. or Ph.D. student is sought in support of the Protein Quality and Utilization Program within the College of Agriculture and Bioresources.The research area focuses on biopolymers as functional ingredients for food. Specifically, the project will investigate protein-polysaccharide interactions at the molecular level, and their resulting impact on structure-forming properties in food. … [More Info]

A postdoctoral position is available at the Food Policy Institute, a research unit of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The Institute’s mission is to bring the depth of academia’s knowledge to bear on pressing issues and challenges facing the food system by providing timely and relevant research that is responsive to the needs … [More Info]

The Organic Electronics Group at University of California, Los Angeles (http://yylabs.seas.ucla.edu:81/) is seeking applications from qualified candidates for postdoc positions to work on organic electronic devices such as memory, solar cells and thin film transistors. Prospective candidates should have a PhD in electrical engineering, materials science, physics or associated fields, with solid background in electronic … [More Info]

The Distributed and Embedded Systems and Information Systems research groups of the University of Twente collaborate with a number of industrial partners in the VISPER project. In this project, we investigate modelling and developing a virtual security perimeter across the digital, physical, and organisational domains. We will investigate how re-perimeterisation affects the digital domain (where … [More Info]

The Biosystems Analysis Group has an immediate opening in the techno-economic analysis of biofuel production systems based on biochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass. This full time position is focused on evaluating the economic and environmental sustainability of systems of technology for the production of lignocellulosic biomass and its conversion to alcohols and other valuable co-products. … [More Info]