International Scholarships

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]

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]

University of Ottawa has a two-year Postdoctoral Fellow position supported by a NSERC Strategic Grant. Successful candidate will work closely with national laboratories at the National Research Council of Canada and Canadian Food Inspection Agency to develop a novel microfluidic-based flow cytometer (microcytometer) for rapid detection and identification of bacterial foodborne pathogens. Responsibilities of this … [More Info]

Organization: Computer Security Laboratory (CSL) Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) Concordia University, Montreal, Canada The Computer Security Laboratory of the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral position in computer security renewable up to two times, starting as soon as possible and subject to performance reviews.

PhD position Agrotechnology & Food Science Group (Gelderland), 38 hours per week Job description We are offering a PhD research project on the properties and behaviour of novel, protein-inspired biopolymers with block structure: self-assembly, micellization, gel formation, conformations etc. as a function of physicochemical parameters. The polymers are biosynthesized through fermentation by gmo’s (yeasts) containing … [More Info]

Professor Michel Loreau is seeking a postdoc to work on theoretical aspects of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in food webs. The successful candidate is expected to develop theoretical models within one of two projects: (1) a project on the relationships between biodiversity, food web structure and ecosystem functioning, with a focus on … [More Info]

Dalhousie University is searching for a Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Associate to work on a sub-project in atmosphere and ocean modelling as part of a collaborative research and development program on Interdisciplinary Marine Environmental Prediction in the Atlantic Coastal Region. The successful candidate will join a team of researchers from the Department of Oceanography and … [More Info]