International Scholarships

Postdoctoral and PhD Student Positions in Neurochoice, the University of Zurich, Switzerland SystemsX.ch, the Swiss initiative in systems biology, has initiated a new project entitled “Neurochoice: Neural Correlates of Collective Decision Making”, with principal investigators located at the Universi-ties of Zurich, Bern, and Geneva, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. One part … [More Info]

Post Doctoral Fellow in Ocean and Coupled Modelling and Data Assimilation, Dalhousie University, Canada Opportunity for Post Doctoral Fellow in Ocean and Coupled Modelling and Data Assimilation Dalhousie University is searching for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Global Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction and Predictability (GOAPP) Network funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. … [More Info]

The Geography Department and Coastal and Marine Resources Centre of University College Cork, Ireland, have two funded research studentships available to commence in October 2008. The studentships cover university fees at the EU level, and an annual stipend. The PhD project aims to address issues of the use of Geoinformatics technologies for predicting the effects … [More Info]

The Instituto Superior Técnico, TU Lisbon announces two research positions in the framework of research project Development of Hybrid-Trefftz Finite Element Modelling, under contract PTDC/ECM/70781/2006 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and FEDER through Programa POCI 2010: The duration of the grant is 36 months, subject to annual renewal, starting on October … [More Info]

Postdoc project “Hedge funds: tail event behaviour and absolute alphas” ICEF – International Center of Economics and Finance Department of Economics University of Venice (Italy) The ICEF (http://www.dse.unive.it/en/centers-partners/icef/) conducts international research in the fields of Finance, Economics and Financial Econometrics. It also provides academic courses in these areas and organize the International Master in Economics … [More Info]

PhD student position in Computer Science – Intelligent Systems – Biologically motivated object recognition Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen Topic of research The objective of the project is to develop an object recognition technique that is motivated by the function of the visual cortex. Major aspects are representation and learning. Type … [More Info]

MERIT / ERASMUS-MUNDUS 2008/2009 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP CALL This is the call for applications to the Erasmus-Mundus student scholarships for MERIT – the European Master of Research on Information and Communication Technologies (see http://www.meritmaster.org ). MERIT is a European 2-year post-graduate programme taught in English at the following institutions: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain … [More Info]